Books.

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 5, 17 August 1928, Page 12

Books.

Jean of the Tussock Country.

(By

Walter

Smyth

Kye. Walter Smyth, author of this typically New Zealand novel, who is a dweller in our DominionChristchurch, to be exact- is to be congratulated on his. -achievement. There is much deft description of the deep bush and flooding rivers of our lovely land; etched in with a true touch and seeing eye, that also does not fail to mark those oddities of character and conduct that prevail on an up-country sheep-station, where congregate much human flotsam and jetsam in search of a job. Gold and its acquisition, wrong suspects, a hot trail on the tracks of a stealer of nug-

BOER SOAS PA MOP PRE ABBE ASL EABLET EL EAS RE BLE RS ESSL ESSE ELSES ISI SISL EERE SES ISD OED ie gets are all here, together with the rough humour, horse-play and swearing of hectoring station hands; and a great description of a bush fire and magnificent horsemanship. The _ determined outlawry of English Jim, shut out from the _ devil-may-care camaraderie of life on the station, with its profanity, quick wrath, and primitive rewards and reprisals, are all factors in a stirring tale of fire and flood and field. The book is excellently printed, its bright wrapper illustrative of the most thrilling incident in a chronicle that rushes’ breathlessly along until the lovers find bourne in their happy moonlight rendezvous beside the sombre bush, from which comes the occasional hoot of a more. nork. New Zealand from start to

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