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  2. LITERATURE

    Amongst the novelists of the time George Macdonald has a place peculiarly his own. He is not, indeed, to be compared with any novelist of any time, except, perhaps, Charles Kingsley, and from him he ...

    Article : 2,347 words
  3. Civilisation and Eyesight.

    Mr. Brudenell Carter is an authority on this subject, and lately he has produced some excellent papers on it. His leading canon is that the functional perfection and activity of human organs are dependent upon ...

    Article : 354 words
  4. New Publications.

    The Melburnian, a journal of the Church of England Grammar school, contains ranch interesting reading, for Melbourne school-boys especially. The Australasian Medical Gazete (L. Bruck, Sydney, ...

    Article : 276 words
  5. A Sun Recorder.

    Mr. Herbert M'Leod has made but has not patented anew type of sunshine recorder. Of course it is of more service in England than it would be here. There, the sun is said to shine so rarely that ...

    Article : 330 words
  6. SCIENTIFIC.

    The favourite home of this little insect is in India, and Australians hardly know what he is capable of doing under the most favourable conditions. He is, perhaps, for his size the strongest of animals. Were ...

    Article : 399 words
  7. The Year Book of Australia.

    This extremely useful publication has now reached its fourth year. Good as previous issues have been, the one for 1885 surprises them, and this is saying a very great deal. The present edition differs from that of the preceding year ...

    Article : 1,032 words
  8. The Fair Physiologist and the Bachelor of Medicine.

    "Oh tell ma, gentle maid," he cries, "Whence flows that falling tear, Why all suffused those glist'ning eyes? The cause [?] fain would hear." ...

    Article : 251 words
  9. Natural Clothing.

    Professor Mattieu Williams is good enough to say that we know very little about the beginnings of man and nothing about the aboriginal human being. He admits that this ignorance is a little provoking. For ...

    Article : 419 words
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