Abstract
SHOULD any reader of NATURE desire to give a Christmas present to a boy or girl he might do much worse than buy Mrs. Jeanie Gunn's little book, but before parting with it he should himself look through it. The author has a great sense of humout, and seizes on salient features of native life and describes them in a few words; these gifts, combined with a real sympathy with the blackfellow, have enabled her to write a little book that is full of human interest. This is not an ethnographical treatise, and no matters are gone into in detail, yet the reader will learn somewhat of the life of Australian aborigines and of their relations with the white man, and if he should not acquire any deep knowledge he will have nothing to unlearn, and that is something to be thankful for.
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H., A. An Australian Story Book 1 . Nature 73, 155–156 (1905). https://doi.org/10.1038/073155a0
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