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  2. HAIG'S LEADERSHIP.

    Dr. Bean's fourth volume of the A.I.F. War History—the second dealing with the main front in France—brings his story to the end of 1917, and his labours to the final campaign on ...

    Article : 1,225 words
  3. HER MAJESTY'S.

    What memories cluster round the long succession of first nights at Her Majesty's Theatre! The first artist I saw there was Harry Paulton, the genial comedian who made ...

    Article : 1,118 words
  4. TWO OF JAVA'S MANY ACTIVE VOLCANOES.

    Mount Bromo, on the left, is over 8000 feet high, and Mount Meroe, on the right, over 12,000. Both are active. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 28 words
  5. I SEEK ADVENTURE.

    It was when imbued with the "wander lust" that I found myself in the walled city of Peking, anxious to gain an insight into Chinese life, but above all, to get right into the melee ...

    Article : 1,649 words
  6. OLYMPIC BRIDGE.

    Two previous articles (see the "Sydney Morning Herald" of May 13 and June 10), have dealt with eight hands of the sixteen, and, whilst these deals required careful ...

    Article : 1,149 words
  7. THE HANSOM CAB

    In 1803 Joseph Aloysius Hansom was born in York, and in due course became an ecclesiastical architect and designer of Roman Catholic churches in various parts of England, ...

    Article : 614 words
  8. FOR THE CHILDREN.

    Captain Noah on the bridge had no sooner appeared Than he muttered, "Ha, ha, it is just as I feared, ...

    Article : 178 words
  9. LONDON LIBRARIES.

    Sixty years ago, the first free library was opened in London. It was a small building at Westminster, with a supply of something near 7000 books. Now, every borough of ...

    Article : 1,094 words
  10. THE LOST CROWN.

    Every little elf and fairy in Fairyland was worried; very worried indeed[?] For the Fairy Queen had lost her very best crown. Only that morning she had visited a family ...

    Article : 593 words
  11. ALPHABETICAL COUPLETS.

    A is for Animal—Ape or Anteater. B for the Bushfire, causing work for the Beater. C for the Cook, who makes a nice Cake. ...

    Article : 217 words
  12. AN EVENING LULLABY.

    Drowsy heads are nodding, Stars peep from on high, Lady Moon is sailing O'er the deep'ning sky, ...

    Article : 102 words
  13. THE PUSSY-WILLOW TREE.

    A pussy-willow tree grows outside our breakfast-room window, and each morning nods a friendly welcome to us. During summer it is clothed in a mantle ...

    Article : 139 words
  14. SCENE.

    Green lawns and flowering shrubs And placid lake, Sink deep into my heart, So that I take ...

    Article : 42 words
  15. CENSURE.

    If it is true that the poor are always with us, it is just as true that the self-appointed censor is equally ubiquitous, and a hundred and fifty-three years ago he was as active as ...

    Article : 343 words
  16. JAVA'S VOLCANOES.

    Though their tour was a hurried one and strictly of business purport, members of the Australian trade delegation, who returned last week from the Netherlands Indies, found a ...

    Article : 252 words
  17. SHADOWS.

    Have you ever watched shadows-quick, [?] shadows, darting with the wind and [?]ams? All day long they dart to and fro; sometimes ...

    Article : 141 words
  18. A CHINESE WAR LORD AND THE MEMBERS OF HIS AIR STAFF.

    Marshall Chang Hsiao-liang with his aeronautical advisers and assistants. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 20 words
  19. WHICH?

    Would it be best to go free—bodiless— To my Valley of Heart's Desire? The gold-mixed creek-sand to show no foot's impress. ...

    Article : 123 words
  20. LET ME FORGET.

    I would not wish to stay, if you were gone, That were the worst of all sad fates for me. I cannot understand the heart that's torn With grief, yet says, "there's left the memory." ...

    Article : 106 words
  21. THE GREATER JOY.

    What joy is his whose life In paths which smoothly wind Is free from care and strife, Who every day may find ...

    Article : 75 words
  22. SWEET AND TRUE.

    Sweet is the love That nought can sever. Sweet are the deeds That live for ever. ...

    Article : 39 words
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