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  2. QUARTER-DECK and COCKPIT

    "Sailor, I can give you another hunt on Tuesday if you care to stay over the week end." The sailor hesitated as he rode home with his host in the chill of an English November, after a good Saturday with the Blackmore Vale hounds. A lecture on flying--something new--had been fixed for the Monday at the Naval depot at ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,239 words
  3. A MAN of DESTINY

    "Mark well what I am telling you," Clemenceau said to Martet twenty years ago, "in six months, in a year, in five years--when they like and how they like--the Boches will invade us." In a little over two years he was dead. His energy had failed towards the last, but not his courage. "Are you ill?" he was asked. "Not ill Only dying." ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,403 words
  4. GLIMPSES of the FAMOUS

    'Adventure, travel and the leisured social ways of a bygone era are blended with memories of authors, statesmen and other distinguished people, in an autobiographical volume by J. B. Atkins: "Incidents and Reflections", '(London, Christophers; English price 126 net). ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,370 words
  5. Australian Oddities

    Of the trees that give to the Australian scene a character so different from that of other lands, none is more' interesting than the Casuarinas, popularly known as bulokes and she-oaks. Botanists believe that they belong to the oldest living flowering plants, that they are a link with bygone ages ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,187 words
  6. Australian Vignettes

    IT PULSES WITH LIFE. THAT, together with the accuracy of its descriptions, has raised the novel above many others of its kind. In ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 754 words
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