While the Billy Boils · Chapter
Preface to the First Edition explained
The publishers acknowledge the various journals in which the stories first appeared, including the Sydney Bulletin, Sydney Worker, and others, and express gratitude to the press of Australia and New Zealand for their assistance in publishin
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The publishers acknowledge the various journals in which the stories first appeared, including the Sydney Bulletin, Sydney Worker, and others, and express gratitude to the press of Australia and New Zealand for their assistance in publishing the collection.
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“In the absence of the author, who is now resident in Western Australia, it devolves upon us to make the customary acknowledgments to the various journals from which these stories are reprinted.”
Since the author is living in Western Australia, we must thank the newspapers that originally published these stories.
Explains the publisher's role in compiling the collection.
“Most of them first appeared in the Sydney Bulletin, a number of them in the Sydney Worker, and others in the New Zealand Mail, the New Zealand Times, Sydney Truth, the Brisbane Boomerang, the Maryborough Patriot, and The Antipodean, while two are now published for the first time.”
The stories were originally printed in various Australian and New Zealand periodicals, with two being new to this volume.
Lists the source publications for the stories.
“We might rightly be deemed ungrateful did we not take this opportunity of thanking the Press of Australia and New Zealand for the aid they have given us in our effort to publish here, and in a presentable form, the work of some of our living writers.”
We would be remiss not to thank the newspapers of Australia and New Zealand for helping us publish this collection of contemporary authors.
Expresses gratitude to the press for their support.