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  2. RUMANIA IS A LAND OF CHARM AND BEAUTY.

    Before 1914 Rumania was a little kingdom consisting of two so-called principalities, Wallachia and Moldavia. When the War ended, however, the old kingdom blossomed into present-day Rumania, with the addition of Transylvania taken from Hungary. Bessarabia from ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,043 words
  3. A STANWELL PARK VISTA.

    This picture of the rugged coastline at Stanwell Park, South Coast, was photographed from Bald Hill. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  4. SLANG HAS ITS USES.

    For the best part of half a century it has been evident that the everyday speech of Austiallans is not the same as that of the English, or, for that ...

    Article : 1,006 words
  5. ART OF "BAILING OUT."

    The machine is climbing very fast, for there are only two of us aboard. In the front cockpit you look out along shining cowling. The motors are spinning the propeller at about 2,000 revs, a minute. You can't see the propeller; you just know it's ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,328 words
  6. MAHLER AND HIS SCHOOL.

    "To-night the A.B.C. will broadcast a performance of a Mahler symphony, conducted by Antal Dorati, in Sydney Mahler died more than a quarter of a century ago, worn-out by meeking for ideal beauty. He was the most personal conductor of his period—a period dominated ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,222 words
  7. DUNKIRK.

    Two thousand years, and more have passed Since Greece [?]ought, her Thermopylae, And still the story's told to-day Of how those fourteen hundred held ...

    Article : 150 words
  8. BEAUTY AND UTILITY.

    Victoria Barracks, headquarters of military activity in Sydney for nearly 100 years, has a new lease of life. After years of starvation, money has suddenly ...

    Article : 855 words
  9. FOREIGN SOIL IN AUSTRALIA.

    Without leaving Australian shores almost any sort of foreigner may set foot on his native soil—provided that he can recognise it. Personally, I have ...

    Article : 563 words
  10. AGGRESSIVE PALM.

    Thrusting its way, in the true manner of an aggressor, through the foliage of a stout mango tree, a coconut palm to-day proudly rears its fronds above. This ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 54 words
  11. WHAT'S IN A NAME?

    In 1876, during my father's visit to St. Petersburg, he had for neighbours English people called Tree. These people became his greatest friends, inasmuch ...

    Article : 702 words
  12. EARLY SYDNEY HARBOUR.

    The discovery, the other day, of a boatman's licence issued to my grandfather, Emanuel Matts, by the Collector of Customs, in 1858, recalls the time ...

    Article : 191 words
  13. BIRDS AND PROVERBS

    Mankind has always been interested in legends and proverbs and, in making them, nothing in nature, apart perhaps from the vast phenomena of the ...

    Article : 286 words
  14. THE "SHIP AND MERMAID."

    Now de-licensed, the "Ship and Mermaid," in Gloucester Street, near Circular Quay, has a romantic history. Built by William Andrews, in 1841, the hotel was for long a rendezvous for Whaling crews and sailors, and there is a legend that both Jack London and Joseph ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 68 words
  15. L'ENVOI.

    (These verses were published in one of the magazines of the Sixth Division, A.I.F., during the voyage to Palestine.) Grieving clouds and a weeping sky. ...

    Article : 154 words
  16. LEOPOLD.

    O Death, where is thy sting? This is that dastard King, On profitless parole, Who could not save his soul: ...

    Article : 33 words
  17. A PRAYER.

    God, help the world that sees some hope Of better years to come. And conscientiously must grope For peace to tune of drum. ...

    Article : 30 words
  18. "HUMOUR."

    Dr. Bernhard Katz[?] formerly of Leipzig, has been for four or five years a refugee in England Two years ago he was invited by the editor of a ...

    Article : 134 words
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