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  2. DOLDRUM ISLES.

    In a choice between two Line Islands. it proved difficult to decide on which to settle and trade for copra. We might as well take the opportunity to look the great Marshall ...

    Article : 1,207 words
  3. ART IN AMERICA.

    At Washington, the Freer Gallery was closed. as it was Monday. which they use for re-arranging the gallery. But with the usual courtesy one finds in America, they agrced ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,355 words
  4. ENGLISH.

    Anyone who essays to criticise his countrymen's language runs a double risk. He may be over-pedantic. and he may leave himself open to contra-criticism. The rules of strict ...

    Article : 1,412 words
  5. GLORIOUS SOMERSET: A TEAM ON THE MINEHEAD-TAUNTON ROAD.

    "This glimpse of the far-famed West Country reminds us that the motor has not yet driven the horse off the highway. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 30 words
  6. CORSICA.

    Even nowadays Corsica is little known, save a small island belonging to Finance. and [?]ted in the Medlterrancan: but thirty- five [?] ago it was even wilder and more remote ...

    Article : 1,247 words
  7. FOR THE CHILDREN.

    The wind is gone, and none can tell The secret place where he may dwell. Along the road beyond the creek I called, and paused to hear him speak. ...

    Article : 117 words
  8. RESTORATION DRAMA.

    What Sir Edmund Chambers has done for the mediaeval drama of England and the Elizabethan stage Mr. Montague Summers evidently aims to do for the Restoration. ...

    Article : 1,102 words
  9. THE PLATYPUS.

    In a letter written by my father on December 8, 1871. from Newton Boyd (between Grafton and Glen Innes). I find the following details concerning the platypus which ...

    Article : 327 words
  10. JAMES BRUCE.

    During that credulous period which we call the Middle Ages. Abyssinia, the kingdom of Prester John, whence rose the mysterious Nile. was the most marvellous of all the ...

    Article : 1,286 words
  11. TEMPTATION.

    I bought from out a little shop A great, big stick of lollypop To take home to my mother. It got so sticky in my hand ...

    Article : 37 words
  12. MALE BOAT.

    "Oh. what a fine big male boat." my daddy said to me. And told how fast it travelled, how gracefully built, was she. ...

    Article : 98 words
  13. LIGHTING-UP TIME.

    The fairyland of which imaginative [?] dren of past centuries used to dream, is ours. With the falling of the grey veil of evening. and the peering of the first luminous star. ...

    Article : 326 words
  14. THE SNAIL.

    "What alls The Snail? He's looking pale." The Caterpillar said. ...

    Article : 60 words
  15. "PUN'NY WONDER."

    I wonder whether the gnu, When he was born in a Zoo, Knew that he was a new gnu. I wonder whether the horse ...

    Article : 78 words
  16. ONE OF JACOVLEFF'S DRAWINGS.

    Head of a guide drawn at a Kirghiz camp. The original is in the possession of the National Geographic Society, Washington. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 27 words
  17. NEW GUINEA.

    In June 10. fifty years ago, the Geographical [?]lety of Australasia's Exploring Expedition. the steam launch Bonito. left Sydney for Guinea. ...

    Article : 313 words
  18. BREATHING-SPACE.

    Catspaws are frisking and whisking hither and th[?]ther across the silvery mirror-like surface of the water: seemingly they are blown directly from on high by the breath of ...

    Article : 208 words
  19. A BAD BIRD.

    The real "bad boy" of the New Zealand [?] tribe is (he kea, or mountain parrot, known to ornthologists as Nestor notabilis, and to sheep men as a curse to the country. ...

    Article : 327 words
  20. THE CORAL TREE.

    Dim it was in the little park, Under the leaf-green canopy; When scarlet-wise on their branches stark Flamed the flowers of the coral tree. ...

    Article : 133 words
  21. AGE TO YOUTH.

    "The way is steep," I said to my companion, As up the mountain side we slowly trod. "Ah, yes," he smiled, "but think how sweet the summit. ...

    Article : 43 words
  22. CONTENT.

    Men toiled at dawn in vineyards and in fields And knew content; Their sons were blind, and missed that simple joy, ...

    Article : 29 words
  23. MANNA.

    [?] livet[?] not by bread alone," But, reaching far above earth's sod. He gleans from granary of God [?] grains that angel-hands have sown. ...

    Article : 30 words
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