Chapter I: Preface

MELBOURNE AND HER CIVILIZATION.
THE POETRY OF ADAM LINDSAY GORDON.
THE SALVATION ARMY.
SYDNEY AND HER CIVILIZATION.
CULTURE.
“DAWNWARDS:” A DIALOGUE.

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WILLIAM INGLIS & CO., 37, 38, & 39 FLINDERS STREET EAST,
MELBOURNE.

LONDON: GRIFFITH, FARRAN & CO.

1886.

AUSTRALIAN ESSAYS.

_BY THE SAME AUTHOR._

LEICESTER, AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. (REDWAY, Publisher, York Street, Covent Garden, London; 6_s_.)

POEMS. (ELLIOT STOCK, Publisher, Paternoster Row, London; 5_s._)

THE BRUCES, A Novel. (_Shortly_).

MODERN ENGLISH POETS. (_Shortly_).

VOYAGE ON THE ADELAIDE. (_Shortly_).

AUSTRALIAN ESSAYS.

BY
FRANCIS W. L. ADAMS.
_AUTHOR OF
“LEICESTER, AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY.”_

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MDCCCLXXXVI.

MELBOURNE:
WILLIAM INGLIS AND CO., PRINTERS,
FLINDERS STREET EAST.

_TO MATTHEW ARNOLD IN ENGLAND._

‘_Master, with this I send you, as a boy_
_that watches from below some cross-bow bird_
_swoop on his quarry carried up aloft,_
_and cries a cry of victory to his flight_
_with sheer joy of achievement—So to you_
_I send my voice across the sundering sea,_
_weak, lost within the winds and surfy waves,_
_but with all glad acknowledgment fulfilled_
_and honour to you and to sovran Truth!_’

_January, 1886._

CONTENTS.

PAGE.

PREFACE ix.

MELBOURNE AND HER CIVILIZATION 1

THE POETRY OF ADAM LINDSAY GORDON 11

THE SALVATION ARMY 27

SYDNEY AND HER CIVILIZATION 50

CULTURE 73

“DAWNWARDS,” A DIALOGUE

INTRODUCTION 90

I. 97

II. 105

III. 114

IV. 122

V. 138

VI. 146