AustLit

Our new serial story, "Good Courage," the first instalment of which will appear on Tuesday next, is by Mrs. Ada Holman, and should grip the interest of readers from its very beginning.

The opening chapters give pictures of life in Ireland in the forties of last century, and through them runs a love story; and, moving on to the fifties, we get glimpses of the tremendous excitement caused there and all over the world by the news of the Australian gold discoveries. The family around whom the story centres emigrates to Victoria, and descriptions are given of Melbourne as it then was, and of Ballarat, where the family settled. The characters are well drawn, and the interest in the story, with its many romantic and humorous interludes, is so well sustained that the reader will eagerly await the fresh instalments from day to day. The story, with its vivid account of old times on the diggings, should make a strong appeal to those who like to read the stirring episodes of early days.

– The Sydney Morning Herald, 18 July 1936, p11