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MR. A. E. YARRA. j
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" The Vanishing Horseman," 157 A E. Yajrra. which is t0 bs published by the Lo'tfiian Publishing Co. Pty. Ltd , is, the first of a''series of, novels w hich will thro* a new light on the Urea* 'Australian island continent.
" The author', a" young city journalist, fft hinrsfjlf the. f,asl> ta acquire know-
ledge a,nd skill to write. " Tho Grea,t '
Australian y m el," which has beca (.ought by publishers tor generations. He 'believes he has succeedud in iayinj; thc foundations tor bis task, having '" soaked " himself in eiery phase ot Australian life lo such an "extent that. .Australian magazine editors have stated that there is p.,, livuig author of not« «ho is to familiar with the real-Aus IIalian as ilr. Varra. In company wita a British press photographer and a South African sporting editor, be set « ut from Sydney to travel for s year SK far out-bark as it was possible. f» ¿vt, working their way from job to Jpt> and writing a buok called " Three ie * Vulky." Thc task was too hard for. I'M ether two who. at the end of the, Çrst iluee months, wanted to send for thN1" 'dices suits and stay at the hotels, is
t-tead of comping out in the bush. They hegen to rind the life around them too raw-the sweating and toiling, fighting and {rambling, hard riding, danger ana difficulty and Spartan, living were less enjoyable than they had anticipated Mr. Yarra, however, bad youth a.nd-aiu hition; he owned no dress suit ; 1f he cave up he would have to go baik to reporting church tea-fights and flower i hows ; and anyway, the life of the Hush to him was The Great Adventure. So he held on alone. At the; end ot thc year be failed to 6cll the book, ?proh ibly for want of the experienced S.dyie»
of the two older men. But tba Great
Out Back had got into his blood »yid ior (Ive years he did not co back. Wheo he did his luggage consistai mostly of closely filled note-books.
fjfr. Yarra, who rvs« an original Anzac, and who was through all tn* 1'ghHng in Trance, was some rears hack- en the sts.IT of th« " Bulletin." He. went . n Vcw eolith Wales »>id rmrrhased "The Independent" at Jífniliquin.i ,