TURNING THE CENTURY WRITING OF THE 1890s EDITED BY CHRISTOPHER LEE University of Queensland Press Contents Note on the Text ix Acknowledgments x Introduction xi 1. Histories and Futures EDITOR'S NOTE 2 BERNARD O'DOWD Australia 3 A.H. ADAMS The Australian 4 ALEXANDER SUTHERLAND Australia to England 7 JOHNFARRELL Australia 9 WILLIAM s. WALKER Old-Time Australia 13 J.A. ANDREWS The Blackfellow's Lament 18 JOSEPH FURPHY Our Virgin Continent 20 GEORGE ESSEX EVANS An Echo 22 J.B. O'HARA Pioneers 24 HENRY LAWSON Eureka! 25 HENRY LAWSON In the Days When the World Was Wide 28 GEORGE ESSEX EVANS A Federal Song 32 ORIEL (JOHN SANDES) The Bushman's Question: Why Am I Going to the War? 33 JAMES EDMOND The Drivel of Our Fathers 55 PRICE WARUNG (WILLIAM ASTLEY) How Muster-Master Stoneman Earned His Breakfast 38 ALEXANDER SUTHERLAND Australia's Centenary 46 2. Home and Away EDITOR'S NOTE 50 MARYHANNAYFOOTT Nearing Port 51 ANDREW GARRAN, FRANCIS MYERS AND F.J. BROOMFIELD Christmas Week, Sydney 53 VICTOR DALEY The Call of the City 58 ADA CAMBRIDGE Leaving "The Nest" 60 A.G. STEPHENS A Peep at Paris 68 EDWARD DYSON In Town 73 vi Contents A.B. PATERSON Clancy of the Overflow 75 JENNINGS CARMICHAEL Noon at Tynong, Victoria 77 HENRY LAWSON Andy's Gone with Cattle 79 GEORGE ESSEX EVANS The Women of the West 81 HENRY LAWSON On the Edge of a Plain 83 BUSHWOMAN (LAURA M. PALMER ARCHER) "Chummy" 85 VICTOR DALEY In Arcady 89 LOUIS BECKE Mrs Liardet: A South Sea Trading Episode 91 CHRISTOPHER BRENNAN From a Clinging Home 95 CHRISTOPHER BRENNAN No Ending of the Way 96 BARCROFT BOAKE Where the Dead Men Lie 97 3. Love and Other Catastrophes EDITOR'S NOTE 102 JOHN MATHEW The Aboriginal Love Letter 103 TASMA (JESSIE COUVREUR) Monsieur Caloche 106 LOUISE MACK I Take My Life into my Hands ... 124 HENRY HALLORAN The True Australian Lady 126 ADA CAMBRIDGE Vows 128 LOUISA LAWSON Marriage Not a Failure 129 CHRISTOPHER BRENNAN Longing Long Repressed 132 ROSA PRAED The Corroboree 133 G.W.L. MARSHALL HALL To My Mistress, to Come Forth 138 LOUISA LAWSON To a Libertine 139 ADA CAMBRIDGE An Answer 141 w.H. OGILVIE Darrell 142 HARRY "THE BREAKER" MORANT At Last 144 JENNINGS CARMICHAEL A Woman's Mood 145 LOUISA LAWSON Lines Written During a Night Spent in a Bush Inn 147 w.H. OGILVIE Dray-Dreams 149 w.H. OGILVIE His Gippsland Girl 151 VICTOR DALEY The Australian Bachelor's Soliloquy, By a Jealous Married Man 755 HENRY LAWSON Some Day 755 BARBARA BAYNTON Squeaker's Mate 758 4. Work and Play EDITOR'S NOTE 174 EDWARD DYSON Cleaning Up 775 Contents vii HENRY LAWSON Settling on the Land 7 77 W.H. OGILVIE Northward to the Sheds 182 A.B. PATERSON Saltbush Bill 184 JOSEPH FURPHY On Gentlemen and Bushmen 788 A.B. PATERSON The Man from Snowy River 792 VICTOR DALEY The Model Journalist 796 MRS E.A. CHADS Woman's Opportunities and Home-Influence 799 MILES FRANKLIN A Governess in the Bush 205 ADA CAMBRIDGE A Sweet Day 277 VICTOR DALEY The Woman at the Washtub 225 WILLIAM LANE Sweating in the Sydney Slums 227 CREEVE ROE (VICTOR DALEY) Mary Anne 237 LOUISA LAWSON The Coming Woman 239 SMILER (A.G. HALES) About Barmaids 241 A.A.D. BAYLDON The Lay of the Swimmer 244 J. BRUNTON STEPHENS The Squatter's Baccy Famine 246 A.B. PATERSON The Geebung Polo Club 248 5. Civilisation and its Discontents EDITOR'S NOTE 252 IDA LEE (MARRIOTT) The Forest King's Lament 253 ERNEST FAVENC Pompey 256 EDWARD DYSON Ah Ling, the Leper 258 ADA CAMBRIDGE Possibilities 260 CHRISTOPHER BRENNAN The Yellow Gas ... 267 HENRY LAWSON Faces in the Street 263 GEORGE ESSEX EVANS The Average Man 267 JOSEPH FURPHY Social Status on an Australian Station 269 A.B. PATERSON Waltzing Matilda 272 BERNARD O'DOWD The Camp-Fires of the Lost 273 CREEVE ROE (VICTOR DALEY) A Treat for the London Poor 276 ADA CAMBRIDGE A Street Riot 278 A.G. STEPHENS The Hanging Judge 279 STEELE RUDD Dad in Parliament 282 ADA CAMBRIDGE Fallen 290 BARBARA BAYNTON The Chosen Vessel 297 MARY GILMORE Down By the Sea 298 JOHN SHAW NEILSON Marian's Child 300 ADA CAMBRIDGE A Promise 303 RODERic QUINN The Currency Lass 305 viii Contents A WANDERER (HENRY PARKES) The Flag 308 GEORGE ESSEX EVANS The Lion's Whelps 570 HARRY "THE BREAKER" MORANT Butchered to Make a Dutchman's Holiday 577 HENRY LAWSON The Union Buries its Dead 575 CHRISTOPHER BRENNAN Farewell, the Pleasant Harbourage of Faith 578 ADA CAMBRIDGE The Physical Conscience 579 ALFRED DEAKIN The Thoughtful Idealist 320 GEORGE ESSEX EVANS The Bar Immutable 323 6. Art and Society EDITOR'S NOTE 326 VICTOR DALEY When London Calls 327 DOUGLAS B.w. SLADEN Introduction to his Australian Ballads and Rhymes 329 FRANCIS ADAMS Realism 330 GEORGE ESSEX EVANS An Australian Symphony 332 CREEVE ROE (VICTOR DALEY) Correggio Jones 335 CATHERINE MARTIN Only People of Culture and Esprit 339 VICTOR DALEY The Muses of Australia 346 G.W.L. MARSHALL HALL Preface to his Hymns Ancient and Modern 349 JOHN LE GAY BRERETON The Black Art 557 JACKDRAYTON Plain and Simple Ethnography 353 HENRY LAWSON Borderland 355 A.B. PATERSON In Defence of the Bush 357 HENRY LAWSON In Answer to "Banjo", and Otherwise 359 A.B. PATERSON In Defence of the Bush. In Answer to Various Bards 363 A.G. STEPHENS Introduction to The Bulletin Story Book 366 EDWARD (VANCE) PALMER An Australian National Art 577 List of Sources 374 Select Bibliography 382.