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  2. WRITERS AND READERS.

    Whether circulating libraries are a boon or a blessing to authors and publishers is a point on which opinions differ. In England, where the circulating library ...

    Article : 189 words
  3. NEW BOOKS.

    To Australians the most interesting chapter in Lord Sydenham's memoirs, issued under the title "My Working Life" (John Murray, Loudon), is that which ...

    Article : 495 words
  4. MINOR GODS OF GRUB- STREET.

    Born in Paris in 1874, W. Somerset Maugham studied medicine in London, hut never put up his brass plate. Fiction and the drama claimed him ...

    Article : 1,354 words
  5. A PEEP INTO MUSICAL GERMANY.

    From the first week of August until its close Munich is the rendezvous of lovers of Gorman opera from all parts of the globe, this month being the occasion of ...

    Article : 1,431 words
  6. NOTES FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.

    There is a boom in window-box gardening in London this year. The window-box cult gained remarkable popularity in Victorian days. It was followed by a ...

    Article : 731 words
  7. QUAINT BRITTANY.

    That north-western triangle, with its base on Normandy and Poitou, its northern side washed by the Channel aud its western by the Atlantic, is ...

    Article : 1,387 words
  8. MILITARY REORGANISATION.

    The immobility at modern armies as [?]vealed in the protracted trench warfare [?] the great war, and the necessity for [?] restoration of mobility are ably [?] ...

    Article : 385 words
  9. Millennium of Letters

    In connection with Lord Birkenhead's suggestion that authors should criticise one another, instead of public men, it is of interest to recall the following verses ...

    Article : 170 words
  10. A New Development.

    In the United States the circulating library system has never been developed to any extent, but the lending branches of th public libraries in that country are ...

    Article : 467 words
  11. A Pleasing Fantasy.

    Mr. C. E. Lawrence has written another fantasy novel, and given it the irritating title of "Cockadoodle." Since he wrote "Such Stuff As Dreams" Australian ...

    Article : 218 words
  12. NEW FICTION.

    Two prominent characters in fiction have made their reappearance. In "The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes" (John Murray, London) Sir .Arthur Conan Doyle ...

    Article : 253 words
  13. STIRRING ADVENTURES.

    The second volume of the Golden Hind series, which is being published by the Bodley Head, London, deals with Captain John Smith, a hold adventurer and ...

    Article : 253 words
  14. Booming Books.

    Mr. Hugh Walpole, the English novelist, who recently spent six months in the United States, contributes to the "Nation" an interesting article on the book, trade ...

    Article : 392 words
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  16. A WOMAN'S NOVEL.

    As the much misunderstood nineteenth century slips further back into history we are learning to see it in true perspective through the eyes of present-day ...

    Article : 672 words
  17. THE CULPRIT.

    "In my 25 years' experience I have usually found that the pedestrian is more to blame than the motorist." --Chelsea Coroner. ...

    Article : 329 words
  18. Sensitiveness of Authors.

    'A' cable message from London in "The Age" last week announced the publication of a new novel by Mr. H. G. Wells, entitled "Meanwhile," which unlike its ...

    Article : 504 words
  19. PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

    Hutchinson and Co., Melbourne.-- Sunny Mateel, Henry H. Knibbs; The Splendid Summits, Charles Alexander; Allan and the Ice Gods, Rider Haggard; Miss Blake's Husband, Elizabeth ...

    Article : 349 words
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