[1] The collection contains thirty-five stories, which are mostly published here for the first time, and six non-fiction essays, some of which are autobiographical.

"No one who finds a charm in the romantic episodes of early bush life can fail to be delighted with Mr. Rolf Boldrewood's latest work, In Bad Company, and Other Stories (Macmillan).

Bushranging, squatting, droving, gold mining, and countless other phases of colonial existence furnish themes for the facile pen of the author of Robbery Under Arms, and, indeed, no subject connected with Australian life seems to come amiss to him.

"[2] In The West Australian the reviewer noted: "Boldrewood is eminently an entertaining causeur, and his short tales, interspersed with exquisite bits of nature, are his greatest charm.

Even where he turns to more ambitious work he cannot abandon this method, and in the midst of a sentence he stops to make a most irrelevant explanation in brackets as to the scientific name of the native cat.