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  2. IN THE 90'S.

    Nearly all the illustiations in "The Antipodean" mentioned in the second of these articles are by Percy F. S. Spence (who died recently in London), B. E. Minns, ...

    Article : 1,559 words
  3. GLASTONBURY.

    If you are English born and bred, do you want to be made desperately homesick? If you have visited England as a tourist, do you want to be driven to consult your banking ...

    Article : 1,046 words
  4. A NEWS GATHERER.

    The first interesting story I handled for the "Times," when representing that paper at Stockholm, was the tale of disaster which overtook General Nobile and his airship the ...

    Article : 1,756 words
  5. "ABO" SUPERSTITIONS.

    Apart from their origin, nothing pertaining to the Australian blacks has aroused more interest than their superstitious beliefs. It might be well to admit at the outset that we ...

    Article : 654 words
  6. THE QUIET BEAUTY OF NORTH WALES.

    The sleepy village of Beddgelart, associated with the story of Gelert, Llewellyn's faithful hound. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  7. FOR THE CHILDREN.

    Our dad is a wonderful man; He can turn sugardoodles, he can Squeak like a kitten, and bark like a dog; He can crow like a rooster, and croak like a ...

    Article : 141 words
  8. KEW GARDENS.

    The rain poured relentlessly. Water, straight and steady, fell from the skies as though for ever. There was no indecision about it; rain had come for the day. ...

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  9. KATHERINE MANSFIELD

    "You think I'm like other people—I mean, normal. I'm not," Katherine Mansfield wrote in a letter to her husband not long before her death. In truth, she was not normal. ...

    Article : 878 words
  10. SANTA CLAUS

    The heat of the day had been intense, and now as we left the lights of the town behind us, and sped across the plains, threatening clouds, broke on the horizon like an ...

    Article : 656 words
  11. A STOCKHOLM CHURCH.

    We have recently seen in the "Herald" photographs of England's most modern church, with an exterior that suggests a barracks or prison, and which we are told is an attempt ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 587 words
  12. TREE SONGS.

    Betula the Birchtree is silver as the moon, And slender as a maiden, and the Norseman had a rune, That of all the earth's trees, the gods so old ...

    Article : 144 words
  13. THE FISHERMAN'S SONG.

    Oh, I'm going back to that two-roomed shack, By the river's side, where the black swans glide, And the tall reeds croon to the bright new moon, ...

    Article : 120 words
  14. THE TREE LOVER.

    It is said that the early settlers in Australia saw no beauty in our trees and flowers Yet, Sir Joseph Banks, who was a keen nature lover, named the first landing place Botany ...

    Article : 546 words
  15. BRAZIL BLOSSOMS IN KEW GARDENS.

    The purple Victoria Regis flower. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 12 words
  16. HYDE PARK.

    To the man in the moon, Hyde Park must look like an opal in a lough setting, but to the earth people who know it, it is a hundred things. ...

    Article : 362 words
  17. THE DREAMER.

    Oh, I'm a rollicking drummer boy, I rat-a-tat-tat down the street; And folks run out to hear the fun, While kiddies keep time with their feet. ...

    Article : 147 words
  18. A SUMMER SUNDAY EVENING.

    As the twilight faded into night there came a sound across the stillness of the evening, the ringing of a melodious bell bidding worshippers be in time for evensong. Scarcely had ...

    Article : 179 words
  19. FOR THE NEW YEAR.

    Bury the year's dead hopes, The useless strain and fret; The seed of weariness, The pang of old regret. ...

    Article : 101 words
  20. MOX NOX.

    Youth and beauty each shall spy And ache to clasp the other; Let them not one hour delay, For circumstance, in surly play, ...

    Article : 104 words
  21. MRS. MOSQUITO.

    Mrs. Mosquito likes if she can To dine on woman or child or man; But her husband is veg-e-tar-ian On summer nights you hear her sing ...

    Article : 119 words
  22. ASPIRATION.

    Could I but weave a net of words to hold The lovely thoughts that come into my mind, Dreams of delight and beauty undefined, 'Twould be a gift more precious than fine gold; ...

    Article : 115 words
  23. ON LOOKING INTO A SUNLIT CLOUD.

    Clouds sail high above the sea, Clouds wreath down below the 'plane; But clouds that carry the sun, surcharged, Bring glory and hope and pain. ...

    Article : 36 words
  24. RE-BIRTH.

    The Old Year passes like a long-drawn siogh: expectantly we scan the eastern sky. Another year upon the threshold stands. And new-born hope is in her outstretched ...

    Article : 35 words
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