A GOLDEN SHANTY.
By Edwabd Dyson.
Melbourne: George Robertson and Co-
The name-fitory ifi the first, but sot nj any means the last, in this little volume; in fact, it is only one of 10 or 11 others, all of them strong in local colour, naked and unashamed in their clean realism ol comedy or tragedy, as the caoa may he. Perhaps the most powerful, as it la ihe longest; and most complete, of these sketches, stories, episodes — call them wh«6 you will — is that headed "Mr and Mrf Sin Fat,*' but it isn't nice reading. All the contents of the little shilling volume have appeared in the columns of th^a Bulletin — a sufficient voucher for tneixr merits, literary and) imaginative, to a very large section of readers. As to the artistic attractions, when one says that the original illustrations which Phil May drew for them a* they appeared in tboa*
cjaasie Jrtigee are here reproduced, nothing jnore is necessary,
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Otago Witness, Issue 2805, 18 December 1907, Page 88
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160A GOLDEN SHANTY. Otago Witness, Issue 2805, 18 December 1907, Page 88
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