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  2. AS OTHERS SEE US.

    We in Australia Lave become so accustomed to visitors from the Northern Hemisphere paying us what Mr. A. P. Herbert has recently had the grace to call ...

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  3. MUSIC AND THE THEATRE.

    Grieg's cantata "Land-sighting" "will be a feature of the Metropolitan Gleemen's programme on November 30 (repeated on December 1) also a "joy Waltz." which ...

    Article : 1,228 words
  4. WORKLESS BOYS.

    In facing the problem of adolescent unemployment we are fortunate in having as a guide some results of the work of Kingsley Fairbridge. He sought in his scheme ...

    Article : 1,402 words
  5. AUSTRALIANA.

    Mr. C. A. Bernays, I.S.O., Clerk of the Parliament of Queensland, has brought up to date the political history of that State, which he started with "Queensland ...

    Article : 1,248 words
  6. SWOT.

    I must tread softly, aye! and speak softly, too, for the youngsters are swotting. A man needs to be the wraith of the ghost of silence, to meet the requirements ...

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  7. AN AUSTRALIAN TYPE?

    Sitting on the verandah of a cosmopolitan hotel in the South of Europe, my companion, indicating a visitor at a neighbouring table, said: "That man. I am sure. ...

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  8. THE 'VARSITY'S APOTHEOSIS.

    "The crimes of our administrators continue ad infinitnm," John remarked, tapping the burnt-out ash from his pipe and refilling it from his shabby pouch. "The ...

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  9. WHEN "LARRIKIN" WAS COINED

    A great deal has been written recently about the origin of the term "larrikin." The objectionable element of society to which the appellation is applied has been ...

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  10. AMATEUR BOOKMAKERS.

    Tony and I were "humping our blueys" through the wheatbelt, and things hadn't been coming our way. Consequently, when he suggested a scheme for raising some ...

    Article : 766 words
  11. RECENT DETECTIVE FICTION.

    The Wraith," by Philip Macdonald. Collins Sons and Co., Ltd., London. 7/6. "The Coat of Arms," by Edgar Wallace. Hutchinson and Co, Ltd., London. 7/6. ...

    Article : 603 words
  12. "WINDS OF HEAVEN AND—"

    What woman is then who doesn't know the day when life seems not worth living and everything turns to ashes in her month, the day when she would willingly ...

    Article : 576 words
  13. BOOK TITLES.

    Every now and again the title of a new book is either so curious or else so cryptic as to arouse speculations in the reader's mind as to its source (if any), and to its ...

    Article : 359 words
  14. "CLEVER DADDY."

    Doctor Jim was a great believer in suggestion. "My dear fellow, results with my patients have been marvellous— ...

    Article : 226 words
  15. NEW BOOKS AND REPRINTS.

    "Between Two Fires," a true story of the German occupation of Lille, by Antoinette Tierce (London: John Lane, The Bodley Head. Limited 1: 8/6. ...

    Article : 251 words
  16. New Records.

    Gramophonists interested in symphonic music should certainly not overlook H.M.V.'s new issue of the third of Brahms's symphonies (in F Major) ...

    Article : 331 words
  17. SUNDAY OBSERVANCE.

    Sir,—A walk through the streets of your fair city of Perth on a Sunday morning cannot fail to discount greatly the good opinion any clean-minded visitor may have ...

    Article : 273 words
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    In his "Diary of a Journalist," the late Sir Henry Lucy maintains that Colonel Saunderson always lived up to his reputation as one of the wittiest speakers in the ...

    Article : 204 words
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    As Field-Marshal Lord Straithnairn grew older, he grew increasingly deaf. Once, when out duck-shooting on the lake at Drnmmond Castle—one boat following ...

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    Sir George Turner heard Disraeli, when Prime Minister in the seventies, speak in the House of Commons: "The question asked what the Government would do ...

    Article : 90 words
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