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  2. WINTER SONGSTERS.

    Approaching winter offers little inducement for birds to impart melody to their calls. In deed, at this season, most bird voices are in eclipse. Some feathered friends of summer ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 806 words
  3. QUARANTINE.

    A Laurence Lowell says that "the leading idea of a conquering nation, in relation to the conquered, was, in 1600, to change their religion; in 1700, to change their trade; in ...

    Article : 1,208 words
  4. PRINCE GEORGE.

    On February 5, the Carnarvon Castle, with Prince George aboard, steamed into Table Bay. She was escorted by H.M.S. Dorsetshire, and as she passed through the gaily decorated ...

    Article : 794 words
  5. ST. MARY'S CATHEDRAL

    Students of Australian history rejoice in the fact that almost every day documents and other records of historic importance are finding their way to the Mitchell Library. ...

    Article : 1,088 words
  6. OUR MOTHER TONGUE.

    The great Oxford English Dictionary in ten volumes now has its first supplement, entitled Introduction, Supplement, and Bibliography." The main dictionary contains 15,487 pages, of ...

    Article : 1,458 words
  7. THE ORIGINAL DESIGN OF ST. MARY'S CATHEDRAL, SYDNEY.

    The original drawings of the Cathedral, made in 1865 by the architect, the late Mr. W. W. Wardell, have just been presented to the Mitchell Library by the architect's son, Mr. Herbert E. Wardell, of Sydney. Above is a copy of the original perspective drawing of the completed design, which has been followed in every respect. Only the two spires at the southern end of the edifice ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 79 words
  8. JACK AND JOHN.

    Jack and John are two little kittens who cannot claim to have any pedigree, or even distinguished appearances. Jack is a grey and white kitten, while John is all black; and ...

    Article : 450 words
  9. CRICKETANA.

    In the "Illustrated London Society Magazine, 1862," are several interesting articles and curious sidelights on cricket written by a man, who remains anonymous, but claims to ...

    Article : 692 words
  10. FOR THE CHILDREN.

    I have a little 'Possum pet— Not in a cage, you know: The only pets I like to have Are those quite free to go. ...

    Article : 202 words
  11. TO A CAT.

    Little grey tabby ghost who went away On soundless feet. Or, all unseen of me, do you still stay Where love gave meat, ...

    Article : 125 words
  12. SECRETS OF THE CAESARS.

    "I, Claudius," Mr. Robert Graves's excursion into imaginative autobiography, is a masterpiece of characterisation and of the narrative art. His subject is that strangely neglected ...

    Article : 754 words
  13. A THIRD EYE

    In the magazine page of the "Sydney Morning Herald" for Saturday, May 26, 1934, is a short article entitled "A Link with the Past, the Tuatara Lizard." It might be mote than ...

    Article : 496 words
  14. A RIVER IN FLOOD.

    The great, muddy expanse glared furiously at the skies above. Would this torrent ever cease? One saw haystacks, huge blanches of gums ...

    Article : 247 words
  15. THIEVES.

    Thieves have been to our orchard Stealing the rich, ripe fruit, Creeping away in the dawning, Loaded with luscious loot. ...

    Article : 92 words
  16. IN PRAISE OF A COLD.

    A cold in the head under London's pall of fog prompted the words in a letter to Australia "Eucalyptus is nothing but a nasty smell." These words lay in the mind of the ...

    Article : 459 words
  17. WATER-STORING TREES.

    Our Australian aborigines have long known that certain species of native trees are natural reservoirs containing, in some instances, quite considerable quantities of water. ...

    Article : 290 words
  18. UNIVERSITY CRICKET—A SKETCH AT LORD'S.

    This drawing, by George du Maurier, gives an impression of a match between Oxford and Cambridge in mid-Victorian days. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 24 words
  19. "SCHERZO REEL."

    [?] there's nought so gay as an Irish reel, [?] the pipe and the fife and the drum's loud peal— Magic, ringing rhythm all the senses feel, ...

    Article : 142 words
  20. THE POET.

    This keen recorder of the Muses' will. Obedient servant clinging to their train, What right has he to claim that not in vat[?] He strove to climb the steep Parnassus Hill? ...

    Article : 115 words
  21. ILLUSION.

    Was it the sparkling sea and not your eyes? Was it the song of summer in the air? Was it the sun that warmed my heart to you And made you fair? ...

    Article : 69 words
  22. A WISH FOR YOU.

    The things I love are often blue. Your eyes, The skies, Are my delight; ...

    Article : 36 words
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