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  2. MUSIC IN THE AIR.

    It was Nietzsche who said we might just as well call the world embodied [?]usic as embodied will. All possible efforts, excitements, manifestations of will, all that goes on in the heart ...

    Article : 678 words
  3. LONELY PITCAIRN.

    We were expecting the boats from Henderson Island about noon. During the night there was a half gale of wind about 12 o'clock. How the wind did blow! It was a heavy, hard ...

    Article : 1,590 words
  4. SIENA'S "PALIO."

    The ancient Tuscan city of Siena, the capital of the province of the same name, lies about 30 miles south of Florence, and stretches its narrow, torturous streets over three hills and ...

    Article : 1,487 words
  5. WHITE MARBLE PULPIT IN THE CATHEDRAL OF SIENA.

    This well-known octagonal pulpit, by Niccola Pisano, dates from 1266 A.D. The steps were added nearly three hundred years later. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 29 words
  6. STEVENSON MEMORIES

    All animals, and perhaps most men and women, apparently object to death. I myself think that one ought not to have any very particular objection to dying in due season, ...

    Article : 1,151 words
  7. MR. JACK SPURLING.

    Mr. Jack Spurling, the marine artist, who, for many years, had been raiding old Davy Jones' lockers, salving ship souls that for one reason or another were consigned to his ...

    Article : 1,100 words
  8. A BEACH DOG.

    He is not prepossessing, but then, he has never been bathed in his life, although he has many times dashed into the curling waves to retrieve a stick. He wears the air of one ...

    Article : 441 words
  9. FOR THE CHILDREN. CLARA THE CRICKET.

    Under a stone at the edge of a thicket, All by herself, sat Clara the Cricket. She'd a little brown suit and a little brown hat on, ...

    Article : 128 words
  10. THE FISHERIES.

    From time to time articles appear relating to the "fisheries" or fishing pools or rockhole traps of the aborigines at Brewarrina, New South Wales. This has gone on for ...

    Article : 669 words
  11. SIDNEY FARMHOUSE.

    The very interesting article by Flinders Barr in the "Sydney Morning Herald" of August 19, followed by one on September 9 by J. Nightingale, prompts one to contribute a ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 490 words
  12. TIMOTHY TURVEYDROP.

    Who was Timothy Turveydrop? He ran so hard that he couldn't stop; He ran so far and he ran so fast That he ran right over the edge at last, ...

    Article : 176 words
  13. ANYONE'S BABY.

    Anyone's baby, no matter how small, How long or how fat, if it's slender and tall Is ever so cuddlesome, tender, and sweet, From its fluffy head down to its little pink ...

    Article : 144 words
  14. BLUEBIRDS FOR HAPPINESS.

    It was a dull, dreary Monday, when most of the morning had to be spent in the laundry, with the not very cheerful prospect of knowing that there was very little likelihood of things ...

    Article : 293 words
  15. PATSEY.

    She is only a celluloid dolly, From her head to her little pink toes; But she has just the sweetest expression, And the dearest blue eyes and snub nose! ...

    Article : 115 words
  16. THE OLD SCRAPER.

    One day recently when visiting the State Treasury Building, on the corner of Bridge wa Macquarie streets, I stumbled—in the literal sense —across an adjunct to the old ...

    Article : 311 words
  17. A BOTANIC LUNCHEON.

    There is no railway station in the Botanic Gardens. The eager band of citizens who hurry through the gates at 1 o'clock on a sunny day are not hustling to catch a train, ...

    Article : 411 words
  18. SPURLING'S PICTURE OF THE LIGHTNING.

    "She walks the water like a thing of life."—Byron. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 14 words
  19. THE MAKER OF SONGS.

    He takes strong, simple words that all men know, And weaves with them the mystery of thought And [?] of fancy, finely wrought; ...

    Article : 164 words
  20. TO ALICE M. WILLIAMSON.

    (The well-known English authoress, who died this week.) Dear golden-hearted lady, down life's way You never failed a kindly word to say. ...

    Article : 94 words
  21. STRATHNAVER.

    The sinking sun floats crimson on the river: A semi-circle flings a vestal glow, An arc is shuttered in the seethe below, The lamp goes out; a day is closed forever. ...

    Article : 96 words
  22. LARGESSE.

    The scent of flowers. The smell of new sawn wood, I breathe these in And feel that life is good. ...

    Article : 62 words
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