Art[icle] VII. Six Months in South Australia, with some Account of Port Philip [sic] and Portland Bay, in Australia Felix, with Advice to Emigrants, &c. by T. Horton James ... [and] ... An Exposure of the absurd, unfounded and contradictory Statements, in James's 'Six Months in South Australia,' by John Stephens ... [An anonymous review extracted from 'The Dublin Review', Volume VI, February and May 1839]
London, C. Dolman, 1839. The reviewer (well-informed but facetious in the extreme) engages almost entirely with James's book, and shares some of his reservations about the planning and organisation of the fledgling colony of South Australia. He concludes: 'Mr James's book exposes all that is evil in the management of..... More