[SPAM] and thirsty plains. Though he might intend

 a middle and independent place. She is absolutely without predilections
and hobbies. Her materials are chosen for some quality of
picturesqueness rather than for the purpose of illustrating any phase of
life at the Antipodes or elsewhere. So little are some of her novels
concerned with the external appearances of the country that the scene of
their action might easily be transferred to almost any part of Great
Britain or America. Incidentally she has given a few strongly-sketched
views of places--of Melbourne in midsummer, with its buildings of sombre
bluestone and stucco, and streets swept by dust-laden hot winds; of
Riverina, arid and drought-stricken; and of the peaceful beauty of rural
Tasmania, the home of her own youth--but these and other descriptions
from the same pen are slight compared with similar work in the stories
of Kingsley, Boldrewood, and Mrs. Campbell Praed. Tasma, as one of the
younger writers, has rightly seen that, for the present at all events,
more than sufficient use has been made in fiction of the natural
peculiarities of Australia. Her novels are, moreover, all character
studies, and little dependent upon local colour for their interest. Her
quiet, satirical humour and power of rapidly and mordantly sketching a
portrait, do much to justify a comparison which her friends sometimes
make of her writings with those of George Eliot and Jane Austen. Rolf
Boldrewood, after the publication of her first three books, hailed her
as the 'Australian George Eliot,' and the title is certainly more
fitting than the praise implied by the other comparison. She has much of
George Eliot's conscientious literary expression, direct masculine way
of looking a

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