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  2. THE PHILIPPINES.

    Manila, the capital of the Philippine Islands, is a great entrepot of trade in the East, a colourful and cosmopolitan city. The surrounding lowlands of Luzon are the home of ...

    Article : 1,326 words
  3. WATERLOO.

    The current film story of "The Iron Duke" prompted me to rummage amongst some old papers, out of which I retrieved a tattered copy of the "London Times," dated June 22. ...

    Article : 1,625 words
  4. FINLAND.

    A European country of which much more is likely to be heard in the future, is Finland, which during the past dozen years has been quietly consolidating a newly-won freedom. ...

    Article : 1,199 words
  5. TASMANIAN TOUR.

    It would be little exaggeration to say that Port Arthur is the most-visited spot in the whole of Tasmania: it undoubtedly receives more publicity than any other of the equally ...

    Article : 1,474 words
  6. A REST ON THE HILLTOP AT UTUNGA, NORTHERN NEW SOUTH WALES.

    Tallow-wood logs from the Yarranbella Ranges are hauled by bullock teams to Sutton's Wharf, Taylor's Arm, on the Nambucca River, for transport to the sawmills at Macksville. (A study from the "Sydney Morning Herald" Art Gallery.) ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 49 words
  7. ART IN MELBOURNE.

    In paying a visit to Melbourne nowadays, one cannot help but notice the keen interest the general public of the Victorian capital is taking in pictures and painting. As an index ...

    Article : 1,069 words
  8. FOR THE CHILDREN.

    Goblins gay, and goblins green— High up in the trees, Dance by night and not by day, So no one ever sees! ...

    Article : 127 words
  9. LOST IN A FIJIAN BUSH.

    We were spending our Christmas holidays up at a mountain holiday resort in Fiji, together with some friends. One morning most of the party went ...

    Article : 346 words
  10. TREES.

    When some dreary township or metropolitan suburb, seen from the railway, strikes you as a wretched, depressing place to live in. and presently some other town or suburb ...

    Article : 1,061 words
  11. CLIMATES.

    In Bopopoland Where the African strand Is hot in the noonday glare, Lives the Hottentot, ...

    Article : 80 words
  12. KISSME.

    He came—he saw—he conquered—and was named "Kissme," not because of any affection on my part, but, being in search of a different doggish name, he reminded me of the remote ...

    Article : 204 words
  13. PUPPY SOLILOQUY.

    For the love of Elizabeth'-Barbara-Rose I'll sit up and beg, or dance on my toes— I'll relinquish my habit of chewing old bones, And even forgo the retrieving of stones. ...

    Article : 86 words
  14. CHUM.

    Two limpid pools of love and trust, My faithful doggy's eyes, A moist black nose, a lithe pink tongue To greet me when I rise. ...

    Article : 77 words
  15. VALAAM, FINLAND.

    A monastery on an island in Lake Ladoga. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  16. VICTOR HUGO.

    When Victor Hugo died on May 22, 1885. the news of his death was received in Paris with a general consternation which, to-day, one finds difficult to realise. It is, ...

    Article : 420 words
  17. A GREY HEADSTONE.

    The grave is on a little rise. One knows it is a grave, because a weatherbeaten grey headstone stands above the wild oats that grow everywhere. On all sides are the plains, miles ...

    Article : 153 words
  18. SEA-GARDENS.

    Deep in the silent gardens of the sea. Ribbons of olive-green and brown and red Float like the hair of mermaids, softly twined In the strange shadows of the ocean bed. ...

    Article : 159 words
  19. THE LIBRARY.

    Who comes soft-footed in this, sunlit room Is known to us; our cager eyes and hands Seek hourly where from well-built bookshelves loom ...

    Article : 124 words
  20. THE OPEN SPACES.

    The song of the surf on the foam-swept reef, Spindrift and sea wrack flying high— The quiet of noon and the quivering leaf, 'Neath the wide Australian sky! ...

    Article : 101 words
  21. HAWTHORN BERRIES.

    They look so gay on their graceful stems All in their bright red and yellow, Massed where the tangled bracken fern hems The mountain road, and the sunlight mellow ...

    Article : 44 words
  22. REFLECTIONS.

    Her eyes are like translucent pools. At midnight, where poor hapless fools Lie drowned. God grant me death this wise. To lie for ever in her eyes. ...

    Article : 31 words
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