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94. Hume-Cook, James, 1866-1942.

Australian fairy tales / by Hume Cook ; with illustrations by Christian Yandell. (Melbourne : J. Howlett-Ross, 1925).

Hume-Cook was a politician and a president of the Australian Natives Association. He was better known as a writer of political tracts. His fairy tales were written to tell his own children. His book was introduced by his friend the ex-Prime Minister Billy Hughes. Yandell's illustrations depict fairies differently from the style popular at the time. They are half-naked powerful adults in a classical, revivalist style.

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