 When reviewing "Leaves from Australian Forests" in "The Weekly Times" a writer noted that "Mr. Kendall has a few more ambitious efforts, mostly in blank verse; but, although his verse is good, it is too redolent of Tennyson, and
we cannot place these pieces on a level with his true and very welcome Australian lyrics.We must except, however, "A death in the bush," which has some true and pathetic touches.