 The book's publisher, Angus and Robertson, also released the collection in two volumes later the same year, titled "The Elder Son" and "When I Was King".These volumes were released under the publisher's Commonwealth Series of poetry collections and contain roughly half the original contents each.A reviewer in "The Queenslander" noted similarities between this book and a recent volume of poems by Louisa Lawson, the mother of Henry, although there was also something extra to be found in the current book