' And I don't see why you couldn't have gone with them and been brave, too, in stead of staying safely in the parlour,' said cruel Miss Catherwood petulantly, as she parted from Lane Leland at the stairs, a few minutes later, not even yielding him her hand. (To be Continued.)

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OPINIONS OF THE PRESS

" Dally Graphic," Ma_»e__ *7.1891.
•'lf the book were not written with so much circumstantial detail we would willingly believe that something had been sacrificed to sensation. It is hard to realise ihat the wholesale massacres of blacks men, women, and children—here described, are wholly accurate, or that licenses are granted tb men to shoot 'Myalls' (wild Slacks) on sighb; or even that a native ' boy' can be bought in Queensland towns for a sovereign or two. Mr. Vogan, dating from New Zealand, states that 'the scenes and main incidents employed are chiefly the result of my personal obsen r ations and experiences ; the remainder are from per fectly reliable sources.' "

"Daily Chronicle," April 15,1891.
"To several colonial stories which have recently been published must now be added ' The Black Police ; a Story of Modern Australia,' by A. J. Vogan (London, Hutchinson & Co.). Ib is an attempt to depict some of the obscurer portions of Australia's shady side, and the scenes and •vain incidents employed are chiefly the •-esult of personal observations and experi ences. The story is unquestionably

oxciting."

"London Morning- Advertiser," June 10, 1891.
