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  2. WAR IN SPAIN.

    WE had driven over a tiny knoll to come upon the huge grey city spread out like a relief map on a shallow flank of hillside. There it lay, at ...

    Article : 1,534 words
  3. IDEAL FORM OF MIGRATION.

    Stanley Baldwin, sunburnt to a nigger brown, and clad in nothing more than a pair of khaki shorts and boots, stool solemnly beside his wheelbarrow ...

    Article : 1,022 words
  4. "AUTARCHIA!"

    IF the inhabitant of another planet found himself put down in Rome he could not more quickly obtain an introduction to the social atmosphere ...

    Article : 1,450 words
  5. ANCIENT RUINS AMID THE GUM TREES.

    This picture, taken just thirty years ago, shows the ruins of the old church at the Boyd Town settlement on the shores of Twofold Bay, which was referred to on this page recently. The old church formed part of the town which Boyd established as his principal base. The only substantial part now remaining is the belfry. In 1908, when the photograph was taken, Boyd Town and Twofold Bay were far less accessible than they are to-day, when hundreds of motorists on the journey between Sydney and Melbourne visit the bay and gaze ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 105 words
  6. A DREAM.IN REALISM.

    "Portrait of a Village," by Francis Brett Young, with woodcuts by Joan Hassall.— William Heinemann, Ltd. Mr. Brett Young, in an author's note, ...

    Article : 1,418 words
  7. HEART OF SYDNEY.

    Governor Phillip was no geologist. One of his first letters, however, to his "Lordship" (the Secretary of State) on May 15, 1788, says: "The necks of land ...

    Article : 486 words
  8. SYDNEY TIME.

    Sydney is blessed with numerous conveniently-placed public clocks. No matter where we go we come across one. There are, for Instance, the Central Railway clock, the ...

    Article : 347 words
  9. For the Children

    Beware at three by the apple tree, For the tree at three's the lair Of the howling, scowling, roaring, growling Savage Anthony Bear. ...

    Article : 199 words
  10. CAPTAIN COOK RELICS.

    A chart of the Western Hemisphere, embroidered in silk, by Mrs. James Cook, reveals a new and intimate detail in the lives of the navigator ...

    Article : 334 words
  11. JOHN, P.C.

    When John grows up he wants to be A traffic cop, so John tells me; Wearing gloves and a big white hat, He'll wave his arms this way and that. ...

    Article : 93 words
  12. CALENDAR.

    No dates are in my calendar With which I mark the days, No man-made thing can chart for me The seasons' mystic maze. ...

    Article : 95 words
  13. ROYAL HEADS ON BRITISH STAMPS.

    The reference in these columns last Saturday to the constant portrayal of the Monarch's head in the stamps of Great Britain recalls the fact that there have been issues in which ...

    Article : 442 words
  14. EVENTIDE.

    The wind is asieep in the barley; The harps of the grasses are still; The swallows have ceased from their parley; The sunset is red on the hill. ...

    Article : 58 words
  15. AN UNUSUAL PICTURE OF CAPTAIN COOK.

    The inscription on this portrait (see article above) states that it was printed in London in 1783. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 23 words
  16. THE OAK AND THE ARMS.

    A wood engraving by Joan Hassall, from "Portrait of a Village," reviewed in the preceding column. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 24 words
  17. DEBUSSY.

    Wind Falls from an ancient heaven To this grove, beloved. Wind trembles through the trees ...

    Article : 107 words
  18. MOVING DAY.

    Chair and bedstead, box and packing case, Everything is moved and set in place. Now to uproot the heart. How strange to call A new place home[?] To be transplanting all ...

    Article : 86 words
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