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  2. THE DEAN.

    "I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is towards individuals.... But principally I hate and detest that animal called man, although ...

    Article : 1,463 words
  3. STAGE METHODS.

    The "Herald's" literary page on Saturday. November 18, was full of interest. Allied, though apart, are "The Twilight of Literature," "The Decline of the Stage," and "Changed ...

    Article : 1,157 words
  4. HUNTER'S HILL HAS RIVAL CLAIMS FOR ORIGINAL OF "A HOUSE IS BUILT."

    The avenue of English trees outside Passy. Marimba (rebuilt by the late Mr. Justice C. J. Manning) which provided many of the features of "A House Is Built," the novel by the Misses Barnard and Eldershaw. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 83 words
  5. "A HOUSE IS BUILT."

    It was a house in the long tradition of houses built by rule and cult... it had mysteriously a quality of age and remoteness before the builders[?] materials were cleared away. It was never like a ...

    Article : 1,629 words
  6. A MEMORY.

    The years, the years, how fast they fly! It seems only yesterday, though it is long ago, that we were at St. Andrews, then celebrating the 500th anniversary of the founding of its ...

    Article : 638 words
  7. FOR THE CHILDREN.

    When the wind goes "shush-shush" in the trees overhead. And the sweet little birds are all going to bed, ...

    Article : 178 words
  8. BROWN JOY.

    I am only a little twig of "brown boronia," I asked my mother one day where I came from, and she said:—"When leaves marry they put on wedding robes and have feasts of honey, ...

    Article : 428 words
  9. OLD SAMOAN CUSTOMS

    Mention by Dr. Scot Skirving in a recent article of Mrs. Stevenson the elder, mother of Robert Louis Stevenson, has brought to mind a very pleasant recollection of that ...

    Article : 1,049 words
  10. FAITHFUL SISTERS.

    In those far distant days when the bunyip roamed Australia and the Alcooringa was no ancient myth, love and death went hand-in-hand through this strangely new-old ...

    Article : 1,014 words
  11. FAR WEST CHILDREN.

    Of all the joys experienced by a child from the outback, perhaps the most cherished recollections are those associated with a visit to our wonderful seaside. During the coming ...

    Article : 531 words
  12. THE LITTLE FRIGATE.

    The little frigate sailed away Upon a clear and sunny day. Yo Ho! the gentle breezes play, Yo Ho! So gay and debonair was she, ...

    Article : 173 words
  13. "SOME FELL BY THE WAYSIDE."

    As a little girl my path to school lay along the top of a railway cutting in one of the city's outlying suburbs. I noticed one day amongst some garden debris that had been ...

    Article : 241 words
  14. BLUE BOTTLES.

    It was an ideal bathing day, Bright sunshine streamed down from a cobalt sky: a gentle little breeze tempered the heat; everything perfect. We went down to the beach, ...

    Article : 359 words
  15. CAREFREE.

    Little tots are happy On the sun-warmed sand, Building mighty castles, Battlements so grand. ...

    Article : 67 words
  16. NASTURTIUMS.

    Down where the grass grows green and slender, were the tree-dark shadow a pattern weaves, Nasturtiums, tawny and red and yellow, ...

    Article : 229 words
  17. LITTLE PETER 'POSSUM.

    We were living [?]. an upstairs flat near the foreshores of the Harbour, and under the casement window of the living-room there was a flat roof. One evening I was sitting on ...

    Article : 363 words
  18. PETER THE PONY.

    Now Peter was a horse who knew He'd never win the cup, But still he was annoyed when John Banged him, and said "Get up." ...

    Article : 107 words
  19. CREDO.

    Our universe an instant's bubble shines At th' unthinkable rim Of a blind ang[?]'s chalice—who divines Nought of the beaded brim. ...

    Article : 137 words
  20. WHAT'S IN A NAME.

    Of all the pretty girlie names That are in circulation, I often wonder which one claims The most consideration. ...

    Article : 110 words
  21. SUMMER IN A RUINED GARDEN.

    The passion-flower hangs hidden on the wall. In the long silences the fountains sleep; The lizard moves his shining length to creep Beneath the shelter of a pedestal. ...

    Article : 103 words
  22. EVENTIDE, KOSCIUSKO.

    Vast granite ramparts stretch out to the skies, Lone scarp and fell are hid 'neath virgin snow; Across yon height a screaming eagle flies, ...

    Article : 67 words
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