14 DECEMBER 1895, Page 23

His First Kangaroo. By Arthur Ferris. (Blackie and Son.)— This

is a bright and interesting account of a visit which two boys pay to a station not far from Sydney, and the fun they had riding after cattle and kangaroos and emus, and being in their turn " stuck up" by bushrangers. It will be capital reading for boys. indeed there is not a dull page in it, and will give them a fair idea of some of the pleasanter aspects, with the exception of the fighting, of life at a bush-station about thirty years ago. We should say that the bushrangers are hardly smart enough for the real thing, but are determined and vicious enough for any ruffians, and will have a corresponding fascination for boys.