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  2. CONTENTS.

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  3. Advertising

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  4. THE LITHGOW SETTLEMENT.

    On the whole, the public will feel that the settlement of the grave difficulty at Lithgow is a creditable one. Messrs. G. and C. Hoskins are to be the new kings to rule at ...

    Article : 176 words
  5. NOTES OF THE WEEK.

    A Christmas book may be trite, commonplace, tedious; but it must be strikingly bound, and touch be-gilt. If may be dainty, eclective, appealing to every scholarly and artistic ...

    Article : 229 words
  6. MR. REID'S ADVICE.

    The star attraction of the "speech days" was, of course Mr. Reid. On such occasions he shines joyously, voluminously into a meretricious glitter. "Of course, you can ...

    Article : 226 words
  7. ILLUSTRATIONS.

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  8. THE DYING YEAR.

    "The Year is dying; let him die," sang a well-remembered poet, and more perhaps than those who watch around the grave amid the chill and bitter blasts of winter ...

    Article : 739 words
  9. AFRICA'S BOUNDLESS WEALTH.

    Writing in the "World's Work Magazine" of the development of Africa, Mr. Samuel P. Verner thus summarises Africa's undeveloped wealth:—1. Five million square miles of ...

    Article : 237 words
  10. THE COLONIAL OFFICE.

    When Mr. Deakin was asserting himself so vigorously before the Colonial Conference last May, it was pointed out by many authoritative exponents of public opinion that he had ...

    Article : 225 words
  11. THE CHRISTMAS OF WASHINGTON IRVING.

    Washington Irving, loving the traditional Christmas of the past, shed regretful tears over its disappearing. He took for his text an old-time regret: "But is old, old, good old ...

    Article : 265 words
  12. AUSTRALIAN FOSSILS.

    The difficulties that beset some branches of research are well illustrated by the skeleton of an extinct Australian marsupial (Diprotodon australis) just set up in South ...

    Article : 275 words
  13. LORD KELVIN.

    The death of Lord Kelvin, at the advanced age of 83, removes one of the giants of science. He was a conspicuous example of hereditary ability, the son of a professor of ...

    Article : 226 words
  14. THE CHRISTMAS OF DICKENS AND THACKERAY.

    Thackeray treated Christmas in a quaint and whimsical way. Dickens, on the contrary, wrote of it from a combined sentimental and materialistic point of view. Thackeray's ...

    Article : 251 words
  15. THE DRINK PROBLEM.

    "Off with his head," says the Amir at Afghanistan, when some wretched subject is detected taking alcoholic refreshment. This Is not a myth—it is a fact, and the drinking ...

    Article : 236 words
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