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  2. THE PERIOD NOVEL.

    The period novel evidently then suits public taste, but does it suit the novelist, and what part does it play in the technique of the novel? ...

    Article : 1,018 words
  3. T. P. O'CONNOR.

    T. P. O'Connor, who died the other day in his eighty-second year, was beyond all question one of the most remarkable men of modern times. He was a first-rate literary critic, ...

    Article : 869 words
  4. CLEMENCEAU.

    The Battle ot Hamel on July 4, 1918, had been fought and won under the direct command of General Sir John Monash, of the Australian Corps, which then formed part ...

    Article : 815 words
  5. SYDNEY IN 1858. A Social Survey.

    The following is an instalment of the interesting document by Professor Stanley William Jevons. dealing with the condition of life in Sydney 70 years ago, which was the subject ...

    Article : 76 words
  6. CLEMENCEAU AFTER THE BATTLE OF HAMEL.

    AN INTERESTING GROUP TAKEN ON JULY 7, 1918, AFTER THE BATTLE OF HAMEL. The news of the Australian victory at Hamel having reached the Supreme War Council that was sitting in Paris at the time, M. Clemenceau immediately left to visit the area. Reading from left to right those in the group are:—Major-General E. G. Sinclair MacLagan, who then commanded the 4th Division A.I.F.; M. Clemenceau, General Sir John Monash, and Captain C. E. W. Bean, ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 85 words
  7. V.

    Crossing Darling Harbour by the newlyerected and very respectable bridge which now reaches across it, I walked round Prymont, which is a suburban village upon a ...

    Article : 1,018 words
  8. ENFIELD.

    Facing the quaintly named Punchbowl-road, which for over a century has been on important connecting link between the western suburban area and the outlying district of ...

    Article : 909 words
  9. KIRSTENBOSCH.

    South Africa has adopted a unique method of ensuring that the native flora of the country shall not become entirely extinct. There is a very considerable sale of wild flowers in ...

    Article : 906 words
  10. A TRUE STORY.

    Odgy was a cat; she was a tabby cat— a well-marked tabby cat, a handsome, wellmarked tabby cat—that is, so long as she was sitting down on her haunches, but when she ...

    Article : 528 words
  11. FOR THE CHILDREN. THE INDORE WEDDING.

    (The Rajah of Jhabua is to be married at Indore to his ninth wife. Each bride brings him a large dowry.) Once more the Rajah would be wed; ...

    Article : 63 words
  12. WILLIE WAGTAIL SINGS AT NIGHT.

    Willie Wagtail sings at night— Day's not long enough for him To express his full delight; Sunshine gay or starlight dim ...

    Article : 110 words
  13. ROBERT THE MOUSE.

    Under the stairs where it's very dark, There's a mouse, The teeniest, softest kind of a mouse, Nurse doesn't like him, ...

    Article : 102 words
  14. A HIGHLAND CLAN.

    Miss Elizabeth Betts, a great-granddaughter of the Rev. Samuel Marsden, wrote to me the other day and suggested my accompanying her. to a meeting of the Historical ...

    Article : 738 words
  15. LAND VALUES IN 1850.

    Of more than passing interest is an old record showing the prices paid for land resumed in connection with the first railway of the Colony of New South Wales in 1850. ...

    Article : 512 words
  16. PARKES'S PRESS.

    Sir Henry Parkes's fame as a statesman has travelled so far and has so impressed the public mind that perhaps comparatively few people are aware that his first public role ...

    Article : 544 words
  17. THE CATERPILLAR'S JOKE.

    Mr. Green Caterpillar was curled up at ease In his little back yard, munching cabbage and peas, When his neighbour. Claude Centipede, ...

    Article : 76 words
  18. THE VILLAGE SMITHY.

    In this motor age the village blacksmith, the muscles of whose mighty arms stood out like iron bands, and who worked beneath a spreading chestnut tree, is a curiosity ...

    Article : 412 words
  19. FROM THE TOP OF THE BUS.

    I saw the Queen and all for a penny, I saw the Queen from the top of a bus, I saw the Queen—I'd always longed to see her, But I had never dreamed of seeing her thus. ...

    Article : 132 words
  20. THE ENGINE.

    The engine sings a noisy song; And when ho starts to climb the hill He blows his whistle, loud and long, Then puffs and gruntles with a will; ...

    Article : 86 words
  21. ST. THOMAS' CHURCH, ENFIELD.

    This fine old church was built 80 years ago, and its anniversary will be celebrated early in December. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 22 words
  22. SUMMER.

    Ahl the summer is with us, and Sydney prepares To take up her sports and to throw off her cares! ...

    Article : 103 words
  23. CAPEWEED.

    In springtime when the capeweed blooms The river flats are green. But golden daisies spread so thick You cannot see between ...

    Article : 71 words
  24. THE PLAINS.

    The silent plains; those hills of lapis lazuli that sleeping lie. ...

    Article : 35 words
  25. HOMESICKNESS.

    The things I love are not city things, But rippling wheatlands, thee flash of wings; Vineyards sit primly upon a rise, The morning's babble and evening skies. ...

    Article : 61 words
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