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  2. The CHINA STATION

    China Station the picture comes sharp and clear to anyone who has read his boys adventure books. War-junks, fire-rafts, stinkpots, broadsides of grape and canister, sorties into winding creeks, "cutting-out" expeditions, exploits ashore in the hot summer nights, battles with pirates. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 916 words
  3. THE PRINCE CONSORT

    Many who study earlier life and times dismiss the Prince Consort, Queen Victoria's husband, as a ponderous, dull, stand-offish pedant, remembered for domestic virtues that earned him the title of Albert the Good, and perhaps as prime mover of the Great Exhibition of 1851. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,021 words
  4. INCENTIVE of TRAGEDY

    William Makepeace Thackeray was thirty-eight years old when, in 1849, his work "The Great Hoggarty Diamond". first appeared in book form. It had come out serially in "Fraser's Magazine" eight years before. ONE OF THE AUTHOR'S ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,012 words
  5. NOVEL in BLACK and WHITE

    "The most Australian novel in our literature" was a description given of Katharine Susannah Prichard's "Coonardoo" the other day by Mr. Rex [?]ngamells, leader of the Jindyworobak poets. By I.M. [?]ER "MOST" ...

    Article : 1,225 words
  6. Royal Naval College Completes a Cycle

    The Royal Australian Naval College at Flinders has completed a cycle. A first entry cadet midshipman in 1913 has become First Naval Member. He is Rear-Admiral John Collins, C.B. By D.J.B. THE COLLEGE WAS ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 706 words
  7. MAPPING AUSTRALIA from the AIR

    Surveying Australia's 3,000,000 square miles by aerial photography is a major item in the Royal Australian Air Force's postwar programme. With one third of the country ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 646 words
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