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AUSTRALIAN ENCYCLOPAEDIA.
We have received fron) Albert and :
-Son, Murray-street, Perth, volume 2
(M to Z) of the illustrated Australian
Encyclopaedia- It contains 41 colored i
and other full-page plates and maps,
and there are 214 illustrations in the
teri. The encyclopaedia contains more .
than 2000 articles, giving the history j
of the discovery and settlement- oí
Australia and the development of the
States; full .biographies of Australhin
discoverers, explorers, inventors, men
of'science, political and religious lead- ,
ers, public benefactors, social workers,
etc.; descriptions of Australian birds; j
mammals, fishes', reptiles, insects, j
plants, grasses, ' timbers/, minerals, |
metals, precious stones, etc:; accounts J
of Australian agriculture, banking: cur-
rency, economic and physiographic, :
geology, irrigation, manufactures,
music, mining, water conservation, the
various religious denominations, etc.
Among the- articles of-great general
interest in the second volume are:
Mandated* territory of Kew Guinea,,
meteorology and-' climate, naval and
military defence. Papua, Parliamentary
elections, and list of all Federal and
State Ministries, the pastoral industry
(sheep, wool, etc), posts, telegraphs,
and stamps, -pugilism, rabbits, racing,
railways and tramways, ' rowing and
sculling, savings banks, schools, seals
and armorial bearings, septic tania, '
snalces, strikes, swimming, taxation, ]
tides, trade and commerce, trade j
unionism, transportation, trawling and I
fisheries, universities, whaling and
sealing, wheat, wrecks and shipping
disasters. j
. The publishers (Angus and Robert- i
son, Sydney) have been engaged for
some years in the preparation of this
encyclopaedia designed to supplement j
.'Chambers," and they have produced !
a valuable work without which ho li-
brary could be considered complete.
No subject of importance lias been lett
untouched, and all matter has been
handled by experts. The publishers
announce that they propose to publish,
as a supplement to the biographical
articles and personal references in the
Australian Encyclopaedia, a volume
containing a list of the most authentic
portraits of the persons concerned.
The invitation in this announcement
should be readily accepted by the
possessors or custodians of such por-
traits. Apart from its natural human
interest, this book should be a valu-
able work of reference for those iiiierA-i
est ed in the history, literature, and art J
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