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  2. ART AT MANLY.

    Each year visitors to the Manly Art Gallery total nearly 50,000. With their artistic receptivity stimulated by hours spent amid the beauty natural to a ...

    Article : 1,179 words
  3. LIFE-SPANS AT THE ZOO.

    The age of animals opens up a very interesting subject. It is, moreover, one which most of us know very little about. Some popular ideas, which one ...

    Article : 1,329 words
  4. BURNS MEMORIALS IN AUSTRALIA.

    Left: Statue in Melbourne. Top Right: Memorial in the Sydney Domain. Bottom Right: Canberra's monument. "O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us!" ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 36 words
  5. "OOR ROBBIE."

    Alma Tadema's famous picture, "A Reading from Homer," was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1885. Thomas Faed, the Scottish painter-poet, after ...

    Article : 831 words
  6. BY THE CAMP FIRES WITH DR. DONALD THOMSON.—III. WITHIN INCHES OF A LONELA END.

    Before daylight in the morning—the seventh day of the journey to Bennet Bay—we were away making north. We returned to the beach, and the going was not so difficult as previously. Ordinarily, it would have been reckoned easy walking; but we were very weak from ...

    Article : 2,457 words
  7. PHILOSOPHY OF THE UMBRELLA.

    "My umbrella is too old and ordinary to be displayed," wrote the British Prime Minister, Mr. Chamberlain, to the organisers of an Umbrella ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 707 words
  8. THE PAST IS AT OUR DOORS.

    Recently at a friend's breakfast table, the children crumpled up their empty egg-shells and their mother said: "That's right. Break your shells up." ...

    Article : 1,233 words
  9. OUTWITTING THE MOSQUITO.

    Dr. Thomson in a mosquito house, which alone made life tolerable on the edge of the Arnhem Land Swamps. The natives build these shelters on stilts in order to leave space for mosquito fires below. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 38 words
  10. DEATH VALLEY

    Sufferers in the searing blasts of heat that swept over the Commonwealth in recent weeks may derive some grim consolation from the fact ...

    Article : 553 words
  11. MANLY HONOURS AN ARTIST.

    A portrait of the late Charles Bryant, R.O.I., by Lawson Balfour, purchased by the Committee of the Manly Art Gallery and Historical Collection. (See accompanying article.) ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 31 words
  12. LONELY GRAVES.

    Far off the Prince's Highway, in a remote part of north-eastern Gippsland, in a cleared space in the virgin bush and miles from any human habitation[?] ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 139 words
  13. THE WRECK OF THE HEREWARD.

    The recent accident to bathers at Maroubra recalls the wreck of the Hereward, which went ashore on the north end of the beach at 10 o'clock ...

    Article : 247 words
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