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TWENTY GREAT AUSTRALIAN STORIES. Selected and Edited by J. L. Waten and V. G. O'Connor. Dolphin Publications, Melbourne. T would have been safer to drop the second word in the title of this collection, or replace. it with a more modest adjective. Not one of the stories included is great, even relatively; but they are nearly all interesting, and they do, when read one after the other, give ‘a vivid picture of the life of Australia for a hundred years. It would be heresy to say that the earliest sketch is the best, "Learning Experience,’ by Marcus Clark; and that the best thing after that is the solitary entry from the youngest writer, Gavin Casey’s "Compensation." Both claims might be a little difficult to sustain if the decision were worth an argument, but the ordinariness of the Katharine Prichard and Henry Lawson entries almost provokes ‘it. Two unusual inclusions are stories by Tom Collins (Joseph Furphy) which had not previously appeared in print, and it is good news that further unpublished work by Collins will follow.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 384, 1 November 1946, Page 15
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178AUSTRALIAN WRITER New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 384, 1 November 1946, Page 15
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