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Issue Details: First known date: 1914... 1914 A Tail of Gold
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  • Dedication: To my wife. In memory of summer days spent together upon Australian mining fields.

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Untitled 1914 single work review
— Appears in: Northern Territory Times and Gazette , 24 September 1914; (p. 3)
— Review of A Tail of Gold David Hennessey , 1914 single work novel

A highly favourable review, which includes an extensive synopsis, of Hennessey's novel. However, the reviewer takes issue with an unspecified 'phrase, which occurs too often to be merely a printer's error' and considers it 'a glaring defect in composition which is not to be tolerated' for it 'will be found to have a most distracting effect upon the reader, forcing him back over lines to pick up sense'.

[Note: By inference, the phrase referred to is possibly that of the title, 'Tail of Gold', which the reviewer seems to imply should be 'Tale of Gold' in several instances.]
Literary Gossip 1914 single work review
— Appears in: The Leader , 22 August 1914; (p. 34)
— Review of A Tail of Gold David Hennessey , 1914 single work novel
Australian Novels 1914 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 3 September vol. 36 no. 1803 1914; (p. 2)
— Review of A Tail of Gold David Hennessey , 1914 single work novel
Untitled 1914 single work review
— Appears in: Northern Territory Times and Gazette , 24 September 1914; (p. 3)
— Review of A Tail of Gold David Hennessey , 1914 single work novel

A highly favourable review, which includes an extensive synopsis, of Hennessey's novel. However, the reviewer takes issue with an unspecified 'phrase, which occurs too often to be merely a printer's error' and considers it 'a glaring defect in composition which is not to be tolerated' for it 'will be found to have a most distracting effect upon the reader, forcing him back over lines to pick up sense'.

[Note: By inference, the phrase referred to is possibly that of the title, 'Tail of Gold', which the reviewer seems to imply should be 'Tale of Gold' in several instances.]
Australian Novels 1914 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 3 September vol. 36 no. 1803 1914; (p. 2)
— Review of A Tail of Gold David Hennessey , 1914 single work novel
Literary Gossip 1914 single work review
— Appears in: The Leader , 22 August 1914; (p. 34)
— Review of A Tail of Gold David Hennessey , 1914 single work novel
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