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has distinct merit as a novel, but its outstanding significance lies in the brilliant searchlight that it throws across an important period of pioneering in an old district in New South Wales, that happy period before the motor car had begun to dispossess the horse of his kingdom.
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is a fine book, and it is likely to become an
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