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  2. THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC.

    An attempt is made in what follows to furnish information in reply to definite questions. The questions may be thus stated:—To what extent do drinking customs prevail, and what is their relation to ...

    Article : 3,747 words
  3. Maoriland. An illustrated handbook to New Zealand. Issued by the Union Steamship Company of New Zealand.

    The compilers of this book have succeeded in collecting a fair share of the information usually designated "useful," for the guidance of those visiting New Zealand, either on business or pleasure. A short ...

    Article : 106 words
  4. Pere Goriot, By HONORE DE BALZAC. London: George Routledge and Sons. Broadway, Ludgate Hill.

    Balzac would look well in any dress, so it is no wonder he appears to such advantage in his English one. And yet one occasionally misses that exquisite aroma which the original only can give, which no ...

    Article : 228 words
  5. THE JENOLAN CAVES.

    Leaving the Margherita Cave by a descent of five stops, and travelling north-west about 10 yards through a festooned hall, the Helena Cave opens to view. It was named in 1880. Helena is the prenomen of Mrs. ...

    Article : 1,951 words
  6. Ursula, by ELIZABETH M. SEWELL. London: Longmans, Green, and Co. 1886.

    This is one of the large class of books dealing with the lives of commonplace people in a commonplace fashion. It is said that in every life there are incidents worth recording; but they should be recorded by ...

    Article : 331 words
  7. END OF THE COLONIAL SEASON IN LONDON.

    Everything comes to an end. Even the gaieties of a London season do not last for ever. The debutante goes home to the country and thinks of the great town always as she knew it for the first time. She and the ...

    Article : 1,439 words
  8. Margaret Percival. By ELIZABETH M. SEWELL. London: Longmans, Green, and Co. 1886.

    Margaret Percival is one of a large family. Her eldest sister, Agatha, has been highly educated in order that she might be able to teach the younger children. But she shirks the duty, and it falls upon Margaret. ...

    Article : 254 words
  9. REVIEWS.

    An American standard work on temperance was required, and a prize of 500 dollars was offered for it. The book before us secured the prize. It is essentially a total abstainer's book, through which the moderate ...

    Article : 624 words
  10. Algebraical Exercises and Examination Papers. By H. S, HALL, M.A., and S. R. KNIGHT, B.A. London: Macmillan and Co. Sydney: Stewart and Co. 1886.

    This little book consists of a series of progressive exercises, extending from the early rules to the Binomial 'Theorem, together with examination papers, from Cambridge and Oxford, the R. M. College, Woolwich, ...

    Article : 134 words
  11. New South Wales and Victoria in 1885. By DOUGLAS M. GANE. London: Sampson Low and Co.

    This is a sketchy descriptive book, by a young man who visited the two principal colonies of Australia. It is pleasantly written, though there are everywhere marks of the propossessions of a young Englishman, ...

    Article : 229 words
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  13. Sonnet on Freedom, and twelve other Poems. By JAMES ROSS, author of "Seymour's Inheritance." London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., Stationers' Hall Court.

    This little book consists of thirteen short poems, all of which can be read and digested in from twenty minutes to half an hour. They are mostly pitched in a minor key, and lugubriousness is the dominant tone. ...

    Article : 255 words
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