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  _Australian Publications._

  CONRAD MARTENS, THE MAN AND HIS ART. By LIONEL LINDSAY, assisted by G. V. F. MANN, Director of the National Art Gallery of New South Wales. With reproductions of 60 of Martens' pictures, mostly in colour. A handsome volume 10-1/4 x 8-3/4 inches, in cardboard box, 42s.

  THE ART OF HANS HEYSEN. Edited by SYDNEY URE SMITH, BERTRAM STEVENS and C. LLOYD JONES, with critical article by LIONEL LINDSAY and reproductions of 60 of Heysen's pictures, mostly in colour. A handsome volume 10-1/4 x 8-3/4 inches, 42s. [_Ready in November_

  THE ART OF ARTHUR STREETON. Edited by SYDNEY URE SMITH, BERTRAM STEVENS and C. LLOYD JONES, with critical and biographical articles by P. G. KONODY and LIONEL LINDSAY, reproductions in colour of 36 of Mr. Streeton's landscapes and 20 others in black and white. A handsome volume 10-1/4 x 8-3/4 inches, 42s.

  THE ART OF J. J. HILDER. Edited by SYDNEY URE SMITH, with Life by BERTRAM STEVENS, contributions by JULIAN ASHTON and HARRY JULIUS, and reproductions of 56 of Mr. Hilder's pictures (36 in color). A handsome volume 10-1/4 x 8-3/4 inches, in cardboard box, 42s.

  DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE IN AUSTRALIA. Special Number of Art in Australia. Edited by SYDNEY URE SMITH and BERTRAM STEVENS, in collaboration with W. HARDY WILSON. With articles by leading Australian Architects and 45 full-page illustrations. 11-1/4 x 9 inches, 21s.

  AUSTRALIA IN PALESTINE. A Record of the Work of the A.I.F. in Palestine and Egypt, with 263 coloured and other illustrations, 4 maps and 3 battle plans, 10-3/4 x 8-3/4 inches, 10s. 6d.

  SOCIETY OF ARTISTS PICTURES. Special Number of Art in Australia. With History of the Society by JULIAN ASHTON, 20 plates in colour and 50 in black and white. 11 x 8-3/4 inches, 12s. 6d.

  ART IN AUSTRALIA, No. VII. With reproductions in colour of pictures by GEORGE W. LAMBERT, CLEWIN HARCOURT, ARTHUR STREETON, J. FORD PATERSON, CHARLES WHEELER, PENLEIGH BOYD, HERBERT HARRISON, LESLIE WILKIE, THEA PROCTOR, A. J. MUNNINGS, F. McCOMAS, and other illustrations. 10 x 7-1/2 inches. 12s. 6d.

  CROSSING THE LINE WITH H.R.H. THE PRINCE OF WALES IN H.M.S. "RENOWN." By VICTOR E. MARSDEN. With 40 illustrations. 10 x 7-1/2 inches, 5s.

  SELECTED POEMS OF HENRY LAWSON. Selected and carefully revised by the author, with several new poems, portrait in colour by JOHN LONGSTAFF, and 9 full-page illustrations by PERCY LEASON. 9-1/2 x 7-1/4 inches, handsomely bound, in cardboard box, 12s. 6d.

  COLOMBINE, AND OTHER POEMS. By HUGH McCRAE. With 11 illustrations by NORMAN LINDSAY. 10 x 7-1/2 inches, 10s. 6d.

  AN ANTHOGRAPHY OF THE EUCALYPTS. By W. RUSSELL GRIMWADE. With 79 beautiful plates, 11-1/4 x 8-3/4 inches, 42s.

  THE MAGIC PUDDING. A Story by NORMAN LINDSAY, in Prose and Verse, and illustrated by him in 100 pictures, mostly full-page, the title-page in colour. 11-1/4 x 8-3/4 inches. 7s. 6d.

  THE FIRST AEROPLANE VOYAGE FROM ENGLAND TO AUSTRALIA. By SIR ROSS SMITH, K.B.E. With portraits and 27 full-page aeroviews of Sydney, its Harbour, the Suburbs, and many Country Towns. 10 x 7-1/2 ins. 2s. 6d.

  DIGGERS ABROAD: Jottings on the Australian Front. By Capt. T. A. WHITE. Illustrated by DAVID BARKER. 6s.

  ANGUS & ROBERTSON, LTD., Publishers, Sydney

  And at all Booksellers

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  DOT AND THE KANGAROO

  By ETHEL C. PEDLEY

  WITH 19 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS

  By FRANK P. MAHONY

  THE BOOKMAN (London):--"Miss Pedley has written a story for Australianchildren, but children of all countries will be the better for readingit.... In the end a double joy is waiting for the reader, for Dot findsagain her home and her loving mother, and the faithful kangaroo findsits lost baby. Quite the right ending for Christmas-tide."

  SYDNEY MORNING HERALD:--"'Dot and the Kangaroo' is without doubt one ofthe most charming books that could be put into the hands of a child. Itis admirably illustrated by Frank P. Mahony, who seems to have enteredthoroughly into the animal world of Australia. The story is altogetherAustralian.... It is told so simply, and yet so artistically, that eventhe 'grown-ups' amongst us must enjoy it."

  DAILY MAIL (Brisbane):--"A more fascinating study for Australianchildren is hardly conceivable, and it endows the numerous bush animalswith human speech, and reproduces a variety of amusing conversationsbetween them and Dot, the little heroine of the book.... Adults may readit with pleasure."

  FREEMAN'S JOURNAL (Sydney):--"Miss Pedley brings much of graceful fancyand happy descriptive faculty to her narrative of 'Dot and theKangaroo.'... The volume furnishes excellent reading for young folk."

  Obtainable in Great Britain from The British Australasian Book-store,51 High Holborn, London, W.C. 1., and all other Booksellers; and(_wholesale only_) from The Australian Book Company, 16 FarringdonAvenue, London, E.C. 4.

  _Price 6s._

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  DOT AND THE KANGAROO

  THE PLATYPUS SINGS OF ANTEDILUVIAN DAYS]

  DOT AND THE KANGAROO

  BY

  ETHEL C. PEDLEY

  _With 19 Illustrations by Frank P. Mahony_

  AUSTRALIA: ANGUS & ROBERTSON LTD. 89 CASTLEREAGH STREET, SYDNEY 1920

  Printed by W. C. Penfold & Co. Ltd. 88 Pitt Street, Sydney, Australia

  Obtainable in Great Britain from The British Australasian Book-store, 51 High Holborn, London, W.C. 1., and from all Booksellers; and (_wholesale only_) from The Australian Book Company, 16 Farringdon Avenue, London, E.C. 4.

  TO THE CHILDREN OF AUSTRALIA IN THE HOPE OF ENLISTING THEIR SYMPATHIES FOR THE MANY BEAUTIFUL, AMIABLE, AND FROLICSOME CREATURES OF THEIR FAIR LAND, WHOSE EXTINCTION, THROUGH RUTHLESS DESTRUCTION, IS BEING SURELY ACCOMPLISHED