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  2. WRITERS AND READERS.

    Mr. Frank Swinnerton, a novelist of some distinction, whose books have met with only a moderate degree of commercial success, has been a publisher's reader ...

    Article : 2,114 words
  3. CANBERRA RENTS.

    Sir,-- In drawing attention to the absence of Ministers from Canberra, your correspondent writes ("The Age," 24th January) that "it is bad enough to find ...

    Article : 641 words
  4. NOTES FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.

    Giving evidence before the Street Of fences Committee last month, Sir William Horwood. Commissioner of London Police, said :-- "A policeman, a a rule, when ...

    Article : 1,383 words
  5. TWELVE PORTRAITS.

    Born in 1836, and the son of a naval surgeon, he was one of a family which claimed descent from Sir. Humphrey Gilbert, the Elizabethan navigator. William ...

    Article : 1,444 words
  6. NEW BOOKS.

    On 17th July, 1827, the brig Caroline, 330 tons, left Hull for Tasmania (which was then known as Van Dieman's Land) carrying 60 passengers, who were mostly ...

    Article : 457 words
  7. NAPOLEON.

    Not long age the "Petit Parisien" conducted a vote among its million readers to determine who was in popular estimation the greatest Frenchman of the 19th ...

    Article : 1,397 words
  8. CURRENT POETRY.

    "Voices from My Garden" (Robertson and Mullens, Melbourne), by Marjorie Weatherly, is a collection of six poems and five little essays and sketches. Their ...

    Article : 254 words
  9. THE STUDIO

    In the January number of the Studio there is an interesting account of the history of the magazine from its foundation by the late Charles Ho[?] in 1893. It met ...

    Article : 102 words
  10. LORD ESHER'S REMINISCENCES.

    Viscount Esher, who is now in his 76th year, has drawn on a retentive memory in the eight essays which make up his latest book, "Cloud Capp'd ...

    Article : 308 words
  11. PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED

    Hodder and Stoughton Ltd., London.-- The [?] Of a Parson, H. R. L. Sheppard; Robert Louis Stevenson, G. K. Chesterton; The Middle Ages, E. B. Osborn: The Spoilers, J. U. Fabre; ...

    Article : 142 words
  12. Advertising

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  13. PICTURES OF CHINA.

    There are 24 reproductions in color of water colors by Mr. Arthur Heath in "Sketches of Vanishing China" (Messrs. Thornton, Butterworth Ltd., London). ...

    Article : 126 words
  14. "NINETEENTH CENTURY."

    An interesting article on the distribution of wealth is contributed to the "Nineteenth Century" by Mr. A. Wyatt Tilby. He has compiled from the files of ...

    Article : 265 words
  15. THE LIGHTS OF LONDON.

    How far back is "Long ago" ? Mr. Shaw Desmond, in his entertaining book, "London Nights, of Long Ago" (Duckworth and Co., London) does not go back ...

    Article : 353 words
  16. "CONTEMPORARY REVIEW."

    Mr. Arthur Ponsouby, M. P., in discussing the failure of recent conferences that have been held to secure disarmament. suggests that the only way to reach ...

    Article : 189 words
  17. MARION DOWNES'S POETRY.

    The poems of the late Marion Downes, who died in Melbourne on 20th February, 1926, have been published under the title of "Wayside Sons" (Simkin, Marshall, ...

    Article : 245 words
  18. "FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW."

    The leading place in the "Fortnightly Review" is given to an article by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in which he deals with "posthumous ...

    Article : 117 words
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