Colonial Born Part 35

"He must be hard to please who is not satisfied with the excitement yielded by this _resume_ of the deeds of the old antipodean explorers."--_The World._

"This interesting and instructive work ... is a very welcome work of education for those who care about the distant Southern Land; it gives the best of many larger volumes and is very pleasant reading."

--_Sat.u.r.day Review._

"The value of 'The Romance of Australian Exploring' is as a history, ...

and the annals of Australian exploration are arranged clearly and entertainingly.... Mr. Firth Scott has both an interesting style of writing, and a very good eye for what is most interesting in the journals of others."--DOUGLAS SLADEN, in the _Literary World_.

"Mr. G. Firth Scott has produced a book for which there should be a considerable public.... He writes a straightforward, vigorous style, and has a keen eye for effective incident. This book is made especially useful by the inclusion of a number of informing maps and other ill.u.s.trations."--_The Globe._

"The book is characteristically Australian, and fully accomplishes its object--to present in a popular form the history, the romance, and, though not least, the collected information respecting 'the vanis.h.i.+ng but fascinating aboriginal race of Australia.' The ill.u.s.trations and the maps indicating the routes taken by the different explorers enhance the value of a most attractive book."--_Scotsman._

"This is a thoroughly sound and trustworthy account of the Australian explorers, from Wentworth to Burke and Wills. It should have been styled the 'reality' rather than the 'romance' of Australian exploring, for Mr.

Firth Scott is, wisely, more anxious about his facts than his style."--_Spectator._

"The story of Australian settlement is of enthralling interest, and the tales of the early explorers furnish a wonderful record of courage, endurance, and dogged perseverance.... Very curious are the descriptions of the aborigines and the various fas.h.i.+ons in which they received the white men, who seemed to them to have descended from some other world."--_Morning Post._

"The ill.u.s.trations and maps, which are exceedingly good, const.i.tute a special feature of a very instructive and very readable book."--_Glasgow Herald._

"Mr. Firth Scott has not attempted to embellish these narratives, but with the help of maps and some good ill.u.s.trations he brings them vividly before us in all their picturesqueness."--_Daily Telegraph._

"The stories are well told; they are almost matter of fact at times, but always full of charm, and the reader will follow them with a steady curiosity and interest."--_Leeds Mercury._