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  2. AN INTREPID AUSTRALIAN.

    My first meeting with Sir John Monash w a mere handshake in a crowd. The chan for conversation came at a dinner imm[?] ately following my opening lecture in ...

    Article : 1,724 words
  3. RETROSPECT.

    Nowadays the Australian artist going obroad travels like any other prosperous member of the middle classes. He combines pleasure with profit, and after a cursory glance at the ...

    Article : 1,338 words
  4. AT COVENT GAEDEN.

    Covent Garden Theatre would be, at any time, I suppose, a sufficiently remarkable place. No Institution with its social and artistic traditions could fail to be. But at the ...

    Article : 1,695 words
  5. SOLOMON ISLANDS.

    In the old days the military caste of the Solomon Islands was a thing apart. It was not every man who took part In the raids and forays. Those who proved themselves to be ...

    Article : 1,305 words
  6. RED CROSS DIAMOND JUBILEE.

    Amidst the many anniversary celebrations which are held from [?]me to time, it is passing strange that [?] diamond Jubilee of the Red Cross Society has apparently been forgoton. ...

    Article : 1,410 words
  7. COVENT GARDEN OPERA HOUSE.

    Tho Covent Garden Estate, comprising 7[?] acres, and forming part of what is probably the most valuable land site in the world has been bought by a company of which Sir Arthur Whooler, Bt., the well-known financier, is the principal director. The estate includes the famous market and the Covent Gardon Opera House. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 66 words
  8. AN APPEAL.

    During a lecture delivered recently Professor Anstruther Lawson made a very eloquent appeal to his audience to help in preserving our wild flowers, because, as he pointed out, ...

    Article : 641 words
  9. AN ANCIENT CRIB.

    In a recent article in an English literary magazine the writer gives a very interesting account of a find he made some years ago in the Chinese province of Shantung. At a ...

    Article : 530 words
  10. DESERT GLORY.

    Much has been written of late on Australia's arid regions. Many years age the writer crossed the iron-like mountains of the Flinders Range, in Northern South Australia, and ...

    Article : 393 words
  11. SLEEP.

    Who said that sleep was death? Not I Who never thought that gardons die In winter slumber; I who have watched them fall asleep, ...

    Article : 118 words
  12. GREY SKIES AND BLUE.

    I love the groy skies, Where soft colours are born; A rest for tired eyes, Till the cloud-veil is torn ...

    Article : 48 words
  13. CODDLING THE WEAK.

    A strong plea for more individualism in medicine, and a general criticism of the coddling of the weak by modern civilisation, were features of the inaugural address of Dr. ...

    Article : 288 words
  14. MENTAL DEFECTIVES.

    In a recent lecture in Loudon on "Some Causes of a C3 Population," Professor E. W MacBride said a C3 man was a product of imperfect development, a degenerate. Those ...

    Article : 315 words
  15. CHANGING FEATURES.

    Sir Arthur Keith, lecturing at a meeting of tho Dontal Board, held at the Royal College of Surgeons, London, stated that ho believed future discoveries would reveal a common ...

    Article : 292 words
  16. SAFETY THROUGH WIRELESS.

    Dr. J. Robinson, the head of the Wireless and Photographic Department at the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough, lecturing recently, made a number of ...

    Article : 237 words
  17. EATING TEN THOUSAND FISH.

    The smallest fish in the world lives in Lake Buhl, in Southern Luzon, the largest of the Phillippine Islands (reports "Science Service") These ichthyological midgets are only about ...

    Article : 191 words
  18. LONDON IN A.D. 296.

    While digging in war ruins near Arras, a French workning has found a Roman coin of extraordinary interest to the antiquarian and student o' history (reports "Science Service"). ...

    Article : 202 words
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