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  2. NEW RECORDS.

    Sibelius' Symphony in D Major, No. 2, is one of the most important and interesting additions to the gramophone literature of recent years. The Second Symphony is a ...

    Article : 577 words
  3. LETTERS

    Sir,—I read with great pleasure and interest in your issue of August 6, the letter of Miss I. Strachan, on "History as Taught." Her remark that "There is a tendency to ...

    Article : 473 words
  4. A GENTLEMAN IN BLACK.

    Speaking very earnestly, Mr. Willsden asked, "Do you recall that when last you were in this study a lady's voice could be faintly heard from another room in the house?" Roy ...

    Article : 218 words
  5. MUSIC AND DRAMA.

    "The Gondoliers," with which the Gilbert and Sullivan season will be opened at Her Majesty's Theatre to-night, was first produced at the Savoy in 1889, a little more than a ...

    Article : 1,598 words
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    Advertising : 606 words
  7. CURRENT LITERATURE

    A most important contribution to the literature of the Pacific is Professor G. C. Henderson's "Fiji and the Fijians," an elucidation of the journal of Thomas Williams, a ...

    Article : 1,213 words
  8. CHAPTER XV.

    Mr. Willsden and Mrs. de Gray had known each other well as boy and girl, a close friendship existing between them, and Ruth loved Roy's mother very dearly. So between them ...

    Article : 1,526 words
  9. MYSTERIES.

    In "Lo!" Mr. Charles Fort examines certain remarkable but well-authenticated occurrences which are reported from time to time. Occasionally we hear that somewhere or other the ...

    Article : 411 words
  10. MOTOR ACCIDENTS.

    Sir,—Your timely leading article drawing attention to the urgent need for action in reducing loss of life by preventable motor accidents and comments by a correspondent ...

    Article : 221 words
  11. DOG AND GOAT ACT.

    At the police court to-day, a man named Whitehouse was charged with having wilfully killed a Scotch collie dog. Evidence for the prosecution was that the dog had followed ...

    Article : 152 words
  12. COMBINED SERVICES.

    Sir,—I am certain that your correspondent "Nemo" ("S.M.H.," August 6), is right when he says, in reference to a suggestion by "A Loyal Australian," that "non-sectarian services of ...

    Article : 236 words
  13. SHORTER NOTICES.

    In an introduction to Sir W. H. Hadow's "English Music," Mr. R. Vaughan Williams observes that the British habit of self-depreciation is nowhere more apparent than in ...

    Article : 649 words
  14. MR. LANG'S FLOUR?

    Sir,—Mr. Lang's latest move in commandeering the flour intended for export to the East is a typical example of the manner in which the "Lang plan" will help the wheat farmer ...

    Article : 216 words
  15. FARMERS' INTEREST BILL.

    Sir,—Mr. Nock is reported to have said that the interest bill alone of thousands of farmers is more than the value of their crop, and goes on to say that there is a limit even to the ...

    Article : 204 words
  16. A PLAN A DAY.

    Sir,—"The man that broke the bank in Martin-place" has a plan for everything, and every day a new one, believing in the new adage, "a plan a day keeps the people at bay," ...

    Article : 146 words
  17. SIR FRANCIS BURDETT.

    It is curious that historians should not have had more to say about the subject of a biography by Mr. M. W. Patterson entitled "Sir Francis Burdett and his Times," for he ...

    Article : 401 words
  18. A FIGURE OF SPEECH.

    Sir,—Mr. Lane has said, it seems, more than once that he will cut down the tall poppies. Do he and your readers know where and by whom the gesture so described was ...

    Article : 143 words
  19. PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

    Green Leaves, Stonehouse (Henry Botheran, Ltd.), Thc Australian Naturalist, July, 1931. England's Crisis, Siegfried (Moore's Book Shop, so King-street, Sydney). ...

    Article : 73 words
  20. HENRY LAWSON SOCIETY.

    At a meeting of the Henry Lawson Literature Society on Monday next, lectures will be delivered by Mr. Keith Kennedy and Mr. Will Carter. ...

    Article : 28 words
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