THE VAGABOND

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1846, 21 May 1888, Page 3

THE VAGABOND

. » Mr Julian Thomas, otherwise known as ''The Vagabond," haa been appointed by those eminent publishers, Meairs Oaeßell, Potter, aud Galpln, tojsdit a work on Australia, and he takes his leave of Victoria for thft.t purpose at an- early date. The " Vag " has been, In hla way, a very bucoesafal literatenr, and might be oa'd to have Introduced a department of his own into the Melbourne newspapers. His earlier contributions to the newspapers as the result of hla personal experience m oonneotion with several of the leading public institutions were perhaps the most valnable lv a aoolal sense, but his later productions were marked by talent and method which proved Mr Thomas to have cultivated a style m which he had few equals. It had something of the flaneur, something of the novelist, and not a little of the phlloaoph'oal observer. He was always generous and friendly spoken, and nover resorted to the tomahawk and war paint unless where ha had to deal with cannibals or convicts. He had perhaps the "largeat circle of peiaonal acquaintances of any living man, hardly an Individual of eminence In the civilised portions of the globe being nnknown to I him, Hlb name m the colonies has beoomo a household word, and no literary man m Australia could have been selected who could do more justice to the aubjoot than the muoh travelled aud veracious " Vag."—" Napier Telegraph."