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['The text in the newspaper Åbo underrättelser 24.3.1895 says: \n"- according to book marketing this book makes a clam to be a greeting from the distant land to old Europe and bring a scent of spring and youth\n- can be described as \'lovely\'\n- first impression after the pages that are written in a perky and lively style, is that hardly everyone can underwrite the just mentioned epithet \n- should also be according to nature, which doesn\'t mean something especially Australian - not everyone has interest in reading about a troop of children that makes the living of parents bitter and that the parent\'s incompetence in raising the children is too clearly exploded\n- still the book is pedagogical for all parts, not as a precept but as it\'s opposite\n- for finding material for such a book one doesn\'t need to go to Australia - motives for such paintings as this one is all over the world\n- still want to give credit for the woman writer - supposing that Ethel S. Turner is femini generis -for the way she has solved her problem\n- she is totally loyal to her subject, models are well studied, the way of presentation is entertaining, the style easy to read \n- the parents are most weakly described - they are probably supporting characters \n- the reader can have a look at a troop of children that is growing up - they have joy and hilarious feelings as well as sorrow and depressed shifts \n- the description of the death of the 13 years old Judy is touching - she was the most gifted and also the most mischief, she was a bad apple for the parents and the most loved one among the siblings (she saved her brother) \n- Meg, 16, is a sympathetic being\n- here and there there is a humorous whiff\n- no reason to doubt that this book is popular among those who read this kind of books\n- both young and old ones can read the book"\nJWmar16']
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