Fascinating Facts
p. 102 · Read in the full issue
From Frank
For better or worse, Frank CM is as much a part of Sydney as j Harbour Bridge and — let’s face m it was inevitable that he would brn out another book to mark the cii\ 175th anniversary year of 1963.
S AGA OF SYDNEY—“the bini growth and maturity of i mother city of Australia”, ffi printed in a subscriber’s edition j 1961, is now available to Fram panting, popular public. It is odd concoction of historical search, tourist guide references, coo mercial plugs, and personalities— laced with the notorious Clune styj A fair sample: “Visitors to Sydnl should be sure to take a trip South Head where the layout of O Harbour can be seen in one gras sweep, with the ocean on one sie of Vaucluse Heights and the harbo< on the other. After admiring tJ view the visitor can proceed to TT Gap nearby, the favourite suicio spot of those who act on the moo of ‘See Sydney and Die.’ ”
But better still, . . . “ ‘See Sydral and Live”. Go on to Watsons B 3 for a picnic, a snorter at the pub, , some delicious fish at Michaei; Ozone Cafe, then return to the cic seven miles by the New South H©i Road, or eight miles by the O South Head Road, with many scene of beauty and historic interest in o Eastern Suburbs, wherever you rrm roam. And there’s no place lil home”.
Frank says he planned the boo< as a handbook of historical inform tion for overseas visitors. Certain! most readers with any interest Sydney will find something to rai in Saga of Sydney , but we can’t t lieve that most of the concoction w be of genuine interest to anyboo* but a fanatic on Sydney’s histoo He takes the old town street street, and even block by block. (SAGA OF SYDNEY. Angus as Robertson. 30/-.)