Mr. Boxall’s pages are very rich in interest and lucid in their information. The history of the bushrangers is a succession of fierce contests and sudden death. To the ordinary man bushranging centres in the name of Kelly, and the chapters of Mr. Boxall’s history which describe the audacities of the two brothers—Dan and Ned—in the seventies, are perhaps the cream of the book. In the last of the bushrangers we lost a magnificent soldier; he had the blood of a thousand terriers, and a certain grim humour too.
George E. Boxall was an English writer who spent time in Australia during the 1870s and 1880s, publishing short stories, articles and a musical libretto, in addition to his History of the Australian Bushrangers.