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  2. FAMOUS LITERARY LOCALITIES Settings for Fiction and Drama

    The power to interest and inspire mankind which resides in those localities where great things have been achieved has been remarked upon by philosophers of all ages. It is the urge behind much of our travelling, from Mecca pilgrimages to tours with Thomas Cook. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,257 words
  3. Australian Vignettes

    "This man never speaks. A few people have heard him say one word like Hullo. He makes himself understood by shaking or nodding his head. There's nothing wrong with him -- he can talk if he wants to. Silent Joe, they call him." ...

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  4. AN AUSTRALIAN SURVEY

    The arrival in Australia of advance authors' copies of "Australia," edited by C. Hartley Grattan, is the first appearance here of any general survey of Australian life and history since Mr. Grattan's own work. "Introducing Australia," early in the war. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,137 words
  5. TOILS of the TITANS BENEFITS TO HUMANITY

    "There have been periods in the past," writes Watkin Davies in his valuable book "How to Read History," "when the human spirit has shone with a dazzling lustre, casting far and wide its searching light upon the deep and eternal problems of life. In such periods as these men create ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,351 words
  6. Fiction with War Background

    "A BOAT FOR ENGLAND," by Sigurd Evensmo (London: Eyre, and Spottis woode). "TWENTY EAST OF GREENWICH," ...

    Article : 1,023 words
  7. MYSTERY of KERGUELEN ISLAND

    On lonely Kerguelen Island, far down in the Southern Ocean--recently visited by the Australian Antarctic Expedition ship LST 3501 -- a scuttled steamer bow deep in sand and seven graves on the foreshore provide all the elements of an R. L. Stevenson romance. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,066 words
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