Sinopsis

ANY survey of the work done by Australian authors suggests a question as
to what length of time ought to be allowed for the development of
distinctive national characteristics in the literature of a young country selfgoverning
to the extent of being a republic in all but name, isolated in
position, highly civilised, enjoying all the modern luxuries available to the
English-speaking race in older lands, and with a population fully twothirds
native. The common saying that a country cannot be expected to
produce literature during the earlier state of its growth is too vague a
generalisation. There are circumstances by which its application may be
modified. It certainly does not appl...