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  2. ENGLISH POETS.

    The Australian visitor to the homeland will find himself absolutely bewildered by the multitude of beautiful places he is told he ought to sec before he returns to Australia. There ...

    Article : 1,469 words
  3. STORIED NOOKS.

    Yet another owner of Crosby was Sir John Spencer whose tomb is likewise in St. Helen's It was Sir John, then Lord Mayor of London, who in 1594 entertained at Crosby the ...

    Article : 1,107 words
  4. THE PAINTED HALL AT GREENWICH HOSPITAL.

    In this hall, the ceiling of which is covered with allegorical designs by Sir James Thornhill, many Nelson relics arc preserved. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 27 words
  5. NELSON'S COATS.

    Next to a lock of hair, nothing seems to possess so intimate a relation with some departed friend as an article of clothing worn by him or her, and concerning this ...

    Article : 1,481 words
  6. "TANKS."

    In an article in the "Herald" of September 14 last by Captain Alex. Scott, D.S.O., M.C., occurs this passage: "It is certain that in 1913 a proposal and design for a track-driven ...

    Article : 1,383 words
  7. FOR THE CHILDREN.

    I've never met a unicorn. Have you? I thought perhaps I'd find one at the Zoo, But couldn't see a trace, after searching all the place, ...

    Article : 149 words
  8. "BORZOI."

    Igor Schwezoff was nicknamed "Borzoi" because his figure had the slender and aristocratic lines of that breed of dog. But it also, he explains, bore another and sinister ...

    Article : 1,107 words
  9. SOKOTRA.

    Why is it that all we land-livers, intent on a long sea Journey, rush madly for field glasses or telescope as soon as there is a whisper of "Land on the port side," or a ...

    Article : 974 words
  10. PAINTER BOYS.

    It was a singing golden morning in Fairyland, and everything in the Fairy palace garden was happy and gay. West Wind in her yellow frock of spider-web silk was playing ...

    Article : 640 words
  11. "THE SAD SARDINE."

    The sardine's lot Is scarcely what A fish would wish Its life to be. ...

    Article : 119 words
  12. A LAUGH AT THE JACKASS.

    One mild summer eve, As the sun sank to rest, A jolly old jackass, An afternoon guest, ...

    Article : 93 words
  13. BOLD SEA ROVER.

    A recent announcement that Count Felix von Luckner has been prevented by the burning of his yacht from making another visit to the Pacific some time next year recalls ...

    Article : 380 words
  14. WALLABY BABIES.

    Every visitor to Jenolan Caves has experienced the novelty of seeing pretty rock wallabies moving unafraid through the bush close to the tracks about the Devil's Coach House. ...

    Article : 178 words
  15. DUBBO.

    Loving and true. Dubbo! Only a dog I know. Yet in your brown eyes shone A light that now is gone! ...

    Article : 63 words
  16. BLUE CRANE.

    On our sandy riverside beach, in the grey dawn of this October morn, I was fortunate in seeing Blue Crane, the lone fisherman. When first I caught sight of him, he was ...

    Article : 169 words
  17. A TOMB IN GREAT ST. HELEN'S, BISHOPGATE.

    The effigies are those of Sir John Crosby (owner of historic Crosby Place) and Lady Crosby. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 23 words
  18. THE ROAD.

    The pale road climbs tree-covered hills And bare and windy heights, And passes cities with their dust And noise and dazzling lights; ...

    Article : 186 words
  19. MOONLIGHT SONATA.

    Now as you play my fancy tree beholds All that the master-mind bears witness of— The fair moon-maiden moves in fleecy folds Of cloud, above the slumb'ring seas, which ...

    Article : 191 words
  20. THE UNKNOWN PATH.

    So smooth at first the road, So light at first the load, That I laughed with you, sang with you, Glad to be treading the path all unknown ...

    Article : 87 words
  21. THE MENDED VASE.

    I had a vase of lovely pottery, Painted with leaves of tender green and gold, By hands that loving made that tracery Upon its shape of dainty, precious mould, ...

    Article : 115 words
  22. WET DAY.

    A bosom elad with rain-wet wings— A trembling laden tree; Above, a tapestry... Grey cloud and mist and silver rain ...

    Article : 101 words
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