A COLONIAL AUTHOR

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14209, 25 May 1910, Page 3

A COLONIAL AUTHOR

MR. DUGALD i'ERGUSON

Mr Dujjald i ergusou, wlio wrote the elegy ua Llit! laic jiuwaru, puolisued in Hie ' iiciaiu' vi inuay iast, Ji tiie author oi tiro books mm have been vvjil received by iu e puunu at iiome and in -lustraiusia, ana lie js liou m limaru to extend the ajjii ket lor tiiein by personal request Une or tnem is a stoiv "ijusli _Luie, lounded on' Air 1- e; " '

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enoes, and people \\uo Have read jl uecial e tiiuc it is as good as -Marcus Clarke's famous woik "His Natural Lite," without its intense paini'ulness. ! litis work is now m its iouriti euition. Xlie other work is an historical novel of the Scottish war of independence, its hero being the A\ allace or iiurtis' stirring poem, which everyuody knows, liegaruing this nork, one of the best historical writers of -Australasia savs that the author moves among the facts of tlrat interesting period as if quite i:imiliar with tlieui, and as on© possessed by the spirit of the time, so that he has produced a captivating, 13 well as an historic-ally trustworthy sstory. Both books we;o written in the spare time of a farm and station hand, and now, past such, work as shearing and fencing, Mr Ferguson is courageously seeking a livelilicod by the sale of tlie products of th.it overtime work in his younger days, by which he lias furnished an example that should encourage others to devote their leisure to some definite purpose.