Over the Sliprails (1900) is a collection of short stories by Australian poet and author Henry Lawson.

[1] The collection contains sixteen stories which are mostly reprinted from a variety of newspaper sources, with several published here for the first time.

[1] A reviewer in The Worker (Wagga), on the original publication, disagreed with a lot of views about Lawson at that time: "It is and has been said that Henry has worked his claim out, dug up all his potatoes, knocked down his cheque, burnt out his candle, lost his marbles, spent his remittance, or, in plain English, exhausted his stock of Australian pictures and experiences.

After reading several of the short stories in this volume published by Angus and Robertson in paper covers at a shilling — the present writer is not so much inclined to agree with those who prognosticate an early drying-up of the Lawsonian fountain.

"[2] In The Sunday Times (Sydney) the reviewer was not so impressed: " As with previous volumes, it is made up of collected stories and sketches that have appeared in local publications, and the result in the present instance is not happy...the volume is made up of short sketches, all cleverly told, but with hardly an exception the incident not worth the telling ; and this defect is much more noticeable now they are all brought together.