The Dariees of Dingo-Dingo. By Justin Charles MacCarlie. (Gay and
Bird.)—This is a typical Australian story rather of the "squatter aristocracy" than of the " bushranging " or " bail-up" sort. The Darleys, a family belonging to Melbourne, but originally from Liverpool, whose head has had reverses, resolve to try their fortunes in what is apparently one of the worst of their purchases,—a tract of some two thousand acres of land situated some twenty-five miles inland from the south-coast of Victoria, and commonly known as Dingo-Dingo. The Darleys, after their removal to Dingo-Dingo, have their trials, their business ups and downs, their joys, and, above all, their love- makings, quite in the style of an English middle-class family in a provincial town. George Darley, the eldest son and main- stay of the family, has red hair, but otherwise he is a most excellent and pushing young man. He is fascinated by, and in due course manages to win, a certain mysterious, proud. and beautiful " Girl of the Gonga." And the Darleys have a cousin, the pretty, piquant Louie Foster, who is the true heroine of the book, and who completely subjugates John Peter Stewart, a gawky athletic settler with a mother that apron-strings him too much. And there is a mysterious "ailing medico," and so forth, and so forth. We have said enough to show what sort of a story The Darleys of Dingo-Dingo is, and that the end of it must be an embarrassment of riches in the way of marriages. The book is very enjoyable and Australian, and thoroughly wholesome.
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