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The last serial story—"The Squatter King," from the pen of Edward S. Sorenson, which we published in the "Catholic Press," was an immense popular success. No one knows Australian bush life better than he, and among Australian writers he is, perhaps, the greatest favourite to-day.

We have been fortunate enough to secure the serial rights of his new story—"On the Wallaby: the Diary of a Queensland Swagman." This is a plain bush yarn, relating in humorous vein the experiences and adventures of a young man, who, finding himself stranded in Brisbane, where he knew no one, shouldered his swag and struck out into the bush to look for a job. His track from Breakfast Creek to beyond the Maranoa River, may be traced on the map, for he deals only with real places—and real people—and what he goes through is what the majority of swagmen go through. Always an optimist, he sees the humour of the situations, and his narrative is embellished with details of bushcraft, and with the yarns and the fun of camp fire and track.