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  2. STOCKHOLM.

    Since Sweden is gradually becoming better known to English speaking travellers, the fame of her opera in Stockholm a city of about 660,000 inhabitants, is beginning to be realised. ...

    Article : 1,117 words
  3. OLD PORTRAITS.

    Having been greatly interested in the subject of old prints for many years, I have noticed lately, various remarks by different contributors in connection with Shakespeare's and ...

    Article : 949 words
  4. BRISBANE WATER.

    Brisbane Water, in the Gosford district, known to most of cur Sydney dwellers as a pleasant waterside resort, was one of our earliest settlements. Governor Phillip ...

    Article : 1,631 words
  5. NEW YEAR'S EVE.

    In Vienna, this old, old town, I have been told, it was the custom before the war for those of the populace who were so inclined to assemble in jolly crowds in St. Stephen's ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,071 words
  6. AS FRANCE SEES US.

    "Weedy little men effervescing with excitement," used to be the generic British verdict on Frenchmen. The prevalence of duelling in France during the nineteenth century had ...

    Article : 1,336 words
  7. A CHRISTMAS SCENE IN REGENT'S PARK.

    The birds on the ice look for their tit-bits from passing Londoners. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 18 words
  8. FOR THE CHILDREN.

    You're getting very backward, And the Kookaburra, too; You must really have some special school, Said old King Kangaroo. ...

    Article : 165 words
  9. "RURAL" LONDON.

    There is a "silent way" in the midst of London, gracious in its sylvan beauty and floral adornment. It is the famous "country walk" from Trafalgar-square to Kensington ...

    Article : 876 words
  10. THE RUNAWAY STARS.

    Now Sooki Da had charge of the Stars, it being his duty to see they were put to bed at night in the broad still sky, for all day the Stars ran about in the fields and over the ...

    Article : 502 words
  11. IN A RESTAURANT.

    Little green tables and little red chairs, People in fours and in threes and in pairs, Looking for seats for their tea all athirst, Flocking downstairs in their haste to be first. ...

    Article : 119 words
  12. THE UNKNOWN FAMILIAR.

    We need not travel to see strange lands; we can observe our own at incongruous times. It was a quarter past 4 of a summer morning, and from the balcony I looked straight ...

    Article : 491 words
  13. WEEK-END.

    When Saturday cornes, it is good-bye to school, And, hey! for the beach and the sun-lit pool, Where the white waves break on the sandy ...

    Article : 97 words
  14. MY TRIP.

    I've been to England! This morning! No; not on a liner. On a plum. It happened this way. A bowl of the small, round purple variety ...

    Article : 296 words
  15. THE BUSH.

    In an angle of the creek where the trickling [?] slipped so carefully over the sharp [?] which lined the bed of the valley, a thin [?] of whitish grey smoke drifted aloft, ...

    Article : 335 words
  16. IDLE DREAMING.

    From the window I see A gnome on a tree, I know he's not real, Though he seems to be; ...

    Article : 85 words
  17. "THE RUBAIYAT."

    Were it not Folly—Spider-like to spin The thread of present Life away to win What? for ourselves who know not if we shall Breathe out the very Breath we now breathe in. ...

    Article : 204 words
  18. THE OLD GUM TREE.

    For a long time I have had a friend, an old gum tree in a neighbour's garden. A stalwart old tree this, the great brown trunk and the spreading boughs have seen ...

    Article : 282 words
  19. ST. PAUL'S CHURCH, KINCUMBER.

    Erected in the late 40's, the building is still used for worship. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 17 words
  20. DESERT MUSIC.

    Sunbak'd mud-walls of the orange groves Near the tents of Ahmed Bey! From within these groves of rip'ning fruit Came music, light and gay! ...

    Article : 215 words
  21. THE SPELL OF NORMANDY.

    A picture halts a wond'rer's step, That tugs at memory— A pathway worn and sturdy trees In far-off Normandy. ...

    Article : 134 words
  22. AWAKE.

    My Soul, awakel Another day is born! Surely the sun has chased the stars away. God crowns the hour, my heart, be not forlorn: Of beauty dream in blessings of the day. ...

    Article : 112 words
  23. THE RAINBIRD.

    Swinging out under the cedar tree I call Rain-bird, and he calls me; Two sweet notes, mournful and slow. Full and wistful, soft and low. ...

    Article : 104 words
  24. A STRANGER.

    I saw her this morning in Pitt-street, A beautiful stranger in town, Tho' swiftly she passed me, I noticed The delicate shade of her gown. ...

    Article : 54 words
  25. HARMONY.

    Dreaming on the world's gold rim, On that bright distant morn, The ocean woke to Pan's sweet note, And narmony was born. ...

    Article : 28 words
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