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  2. NERLI'S R.L.S.

    Of the three Nerli portraits of Robert Louis Stevenson, uncertainty has invested that which, in earlier articles, this inquirer has called the "Sydney" porttait. Two previous ...

    Article : 1,707 words
  3. DIOCESE OF SYDNEY.

    In view of the correspondence to which the recent Primatial election in the Church of England gave rise, certain aspects of early diocesan history are particularly interesting. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,323 words
  4. CHILD VERSE

    British children are fortunate, indeed, in their heritage of verse. Not only have they a wealth of nursery rhymes (which are born, not made, their origins suitably obscure), but ...

    Article : 1,165 words
  5. MY LADY NICOTINE.

    "O thou weed, who art so lovely fair, and smell it so sweet that the sense aches at thee," said Shakespeare, but he made Othello say these words of Desdemona, not of some choice ...

    Article : 1,549 words
  6. DUTCHMEN OF NORTH AMERICA DEFY A GOVERNOR'S EDICT AGAINST TOBACCO.

    The picture depicting this amusing scene of "Knickerbocker" days is in the Corcoran Gallery at Washington. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 27 words
  7. WILD BIRD LIFE.

    The willy-wagtail, or black and white fantail, is well-known throughout Australia. With the exception perhaps of the kookabuna, it is probably the most popular of all Australian ...

    Article : 697 words
  8. MARIE-LOUISE

    "Probably not for a hundred years has there been such an important contribution to history," declares M. Charles de la Ronciere of the newly discovered letters from Napoleon ...

    Article : 1,009 words
  9. GOANNA AND OPOSSUM.

    Evidently goanna, fascinate their prey as do snakes. Riding along through scrub country in the Upper Hunter Valley recently, I saw an opossum scuttle out of a hollow spout in ...

    Article : 347 words
  10. FOR THE CHILDREN.

    All is quiet and still as I walk in the garden at eve. I think I'll sit on this rustic seat lest the half-light leave. ...

    Article : 169 words
  11. THE FLIGHT OF TIME.

    To me it seems like yesterday Since John lay in a pram.; A rattle was his only play, His vice a spoon of jam. ...

    Article : 76 words
  12. "THE TWINS."

    They were only a pair of ducklings, very small, very frightened, and very black, when we bought them, but from the first they became the star[?] exhibit of our fowl-yard. Their ...

    Article : 316 words
  13. AUTUMN LEAVES.

    The Autumn leaves are falling; Red, yellow, brown and gold. The wintry winds are calling Nature within its fold. ...

    Article : 44 words
  14. AT LAST.

    A little poet wrote a poem. And posted it with hope. And waited—Oh, so eagerly! "The Morning Herald" to ope. ...

    Article : 47 words
  15. TEDDY BEAR.

    My Teddy's growing very thin. While I am getting stout. It's funny, for it used to be The other way about. ...

    Article : 76 words
  16. NERLI IN MELBOURNE.

    Names reading from left to right: Contessa Nerli, —, Nerli, Below: L. Gill. The photograph was taken in Nerli's studio (Gill's Gallery) Chapel-street, Prahan, sometime between 1900-2. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 30 words
  17. EPICUREAN SHELLFISH.

    The northern sand beaches of New Zealand yield, in season, a prolific harvest of delectable shellfish known as the toheroa, about which we Australians know little, except that ...

    Article : 454 words
  18. GLENUGIE PEAK.

    One traveller visiting Egypt and the Pyramids, expressive in his love of splendid scenes, wrote this fine passage: "I suppose there is nothing in the world more wonderful and ...

    Article : 347 words
  19. THE GREAT HALL.

    Thy years are few, but great thy fame, Thy walls are young, but proud thy name; And 'neath thy windows' mellow glory unfolds an honourable story ...

    Article : 147 words
  20. THE BIRTH OF VIOLETS.

    When God had made the pleasant world, The hills and valleys and deep seas, Green, fragrant grass, at dawn dew-pearled, Fair as the beauty of the trees. ...

    Article : 110 words
  21. MULTUM IN PARVO.

    There is full many a trivial thing, That wakes the heart from sleepin[?] Sending the senses forth again Into the spaces leaping. ...

    Article : 72 words
  22. WORDS.

    Some words there are that wound and sear, And others, too, that soothe and spread The balm of love o'er hate and fear... But best I love sweet words unsaid! ...

    Article : 39 words
  23. WISDOM.

    Not in the heart of some deep book alone Are found the gifts that make man's life a song; But in the soul of smallest babe unknown ...

    Article : 38 words
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