"In this novel, as in the previous ones from Mr. Hornung's pen, there is a wealth of well-handled incidents. It is story-telling of the most direct kind and holds the attention from the first page to the last. Mr. Hornung seems to us in each succeeding book from his pen to gain in confidence and authority, and we do not hesitate to place him among the first of the comparatively new writers who must be reckoned with."--_Literature_.
"Mr. Hornung has succeeded admirably in his object: his Australian scenes are a veritable nightmare; they sear the imagination, and it will be some time before we get Hookey Simpson, the clank of the chains, and the hero's degradation off our mind."--_London Saturday Review_.
"Vividly and vigorously told."--_London Academy_.
"Mr. Hornung is a natural humorist, and has the art of telling a story."--_Philadelphia Evening Telegraph_.
"It is pleasant to turn to a real story by a real story-writer. Such is 'My Lord Duke.' ... Its story is its own, both in plot and in characterization. It is a capital little novel."--_The Nation_.
"Whether Lowndes be entirely realized or not does not much matter; the conception of him is already a distinction. He is an adventurer of genius, but not built on the usual lines.... And his vitality is inexhaustible. We leave him, not without a stain upon his character, but with considerable regret in our minds."--_The Bookman_.
"In about half-a-dozen cases the scene is laid in Australia, and the dramatic and tragic aspects of Colonial life are treated by Mr. Hornung with that happy union of vigor and sympathy which has stood him in such good stead in his earlier novels."--_London Spectator_.
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"There are passages in E. W. Hornung's latest story, 'The Boss of Taroomba,' which remind us by their vividness and fantastic quality of Stevenson in some of his South Sea Island tales.... The hero is an uncommon creation even for fiction."--_Chicago Times-Herald_.
"Mr. E. W. Hornung is one of the most successful delineators of Bush life."--_Chicago Tribune_.
"A capital little story of Australian love and adventure. There is no flagging in the press and stir of the story."--_The Nation_.
Transcriber's Notes: All apparent printer's errors retained. Page 23, "blackfellow" and "black fellow" both present in text Page 45, "succesful" retained from original text Page 48, "its" retained from original text Page 175, "outry" retained from original text Some inconsistency in hyphenating words: bare-back and bareback both present in text coo-ee and cooee both present in text foot-print and footprint both present in text salt-bush and saltbush both present