AustLit

A Tale of the Inland.

This is a tale of inland Australia, of the mulga scrub, the desert, and life in one of the "way-back" towns to which a prospector, rescued when nearly dead in the bush, is brought and put in the hospital, there to meet the woman with whom his destiny is to be linked. The story is simply told. The characters are plain and natural. They are assembled in the small settlement, of which the reader is given a lively sense of the heat and dust and general isolation, and the miners, teamsters, police, and aeroplanes, make up a colourful picture, while the narrative receives dramatic force by the intrusion of a stranger who stirs up trouble for the young lovers. The interest will be found to move rapidly through the instalments.

The Sydney Morning Herald, 6 September 1935, p4.