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  2. JAPAN TO-DAY.

    It is only sixty years since Japan abolished the military dictatorship of the Tokugawa Shogunate, and restored the power of the Imperial throne. The son of the last Shogun ...

    Article : 1,385 words
  3. PICTURE PURCHASES.

    In the "Sydney, Morning Herald" of Saturday, June 23, a paragraph appeared announcing the resignation of Mr. Frank Rinder, the London advisor to the Felton bequest. ...

    Article : 881 words
  4. LONDON "PUNCH."

    Open-hearted and sympathetic as the busy denl[?]ens of Fleet-street are to an adventuring Australian, I felt a certain amount of diffidence in contemplating my keen desire to meet ...

    Article : 1,451 words
  5. THE "HERALD."

    Seventy-two years ago to-day the "Herald" moved from Lower George-street into the old office in Huriter-strecl that two or three years ago gave pince to the groat building on the ...

    Article : 1,567 words
  6. OLD OFFICES OF THE "SYDNEY MORNING HERALD."

    EARLIEST PICTURE, DRAWN IN 1856, OF THE HERALD OFFICE ON THE PRESENT SITE. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  7. UNDER STALIN'S RULE

    If Soviet Russia is full of paradoxes, it is mainly because it is full of peasants. Here is a Communism made possible by the desire to possess land, and a peasant emerging from ...

    Article : 652 words
  8. FOR THE CHILDREN.

    Oh, when a fairy goes to bed, A petalled pillow neath her bead, In cobweb lace she lies. And even if there is a shower, ...

    Article : 68 words
  9. JOHN HOPSON.

    A great-hearted and clean-souled man, a keen naturalist, and a cheery friend, passed when John Hopson died suddenly while visiting his. brother at Lostock, near Eccleston, ...

    Article : 627 words
  10. "CHATTERING 'PIES."

    It is well that we are not troubled by the thought of old omens associated with magpies—for as many as fifty congregate about the house at the one time, and they provide ...

    Article : 1,010 words
  11. THE BOY IN THE LOOKINGGLASS.

    When I look in the looking-glass A room like ours, I see, And there's a lonely little boy Who's Just, us big as me. ...

    Article : 119 words
  12. PUNISHMENT.

    I have a little garden bed Down at the orchard's end, And every plant that grows in it is Christen[?]d for a friend. ...

    Article : 92 words
  13. RELATIVE VALUES.

    It is the presence of "idea" in art that give it value. A work of art is thought embodied and it is imagination, Shakespeare explains that clothes "idea" with being, and gives to ...

    Article : 696 words
  14. JACK'S FIRST VISIT TO THE CITY.

    Jack lived in the bush and had never seen the city with its huge buildings, its bustle and noise, nor had he seen the se. Of course, he had heard about them, and had seen ...

    Article : 663 words
  15. AVIATION.

    This earth holds many a beautiful spectacle to be seen by us all. But tor that privileged being, the airman, watching from his cockpit high in the air, the humblest landscape ...

    Article : 477 words
  16. ANOTHER TRIBUTE.

    A month or two ago nature studouts in New South Wales were snddened by the news of, the sudden death of Adam Forster, whose, artistic talents have so well depicted the ...

    Article : 348 words
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    BUILDINGS IN LOWER GEORGE-STREET IN 1848, SHOWING THE FORMER HERALD OFFICE. The houses from Mr. Gaunson's on the extreme left, formerly the Bank of Australia, to the Herald Office (in the centre of the drawing),were known as Underwood's Buildings, having been creeted by Mr. James Underwood on his grant of land, which, according to Fowles's ''Sydney in 1848'' reached front to the water's edge. ''It was here,'' says Fowles, ''that the first colonial ship, named the King George, was launched on April 19, 1805. the space between the Herald office ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 147 words
  18. TUMUT.

    Athwart fair fields long shandows fall; Slow magpies croon their Homing calls; The purple hills Beneath an opalescent sky ...

    Article : 165 words
  19. HOMELAND.

    Oh, the fields are white with daisies now. Tho hawthorn's like the snow, And golden are the buttercups I gathered long ago. ...

    Article : 91 words
  20. THE WANDERER.

    Grant me to rest beneath the spreading trees, and watch the bush-birds winging o'er the Plain: To hear once more the sighing of the breege ...

    Article : 104 words
  21. SLEEP.

    O'sleep, come out of the brooding skies, And lay your sweet, soft kiss on my eyes. Fold me round in your warm embrace, Out of my mind all terrors chase. ...

    Article : 61 words
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