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    THE MONASTIC IDEAL OF THE MIDDLE AGES SEEMS FAR REMOVED from the temper and circumstances of our time. But it may be that disasters and disorders will compel a reconsideration of the values represented by the monastic life. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 788 words
  3. THE CIVILISATION OF LANKA

    IF THERE IS AN ANCIENT CIVILISATION WHICH, MORE THAN ANY other, has a message for the Australian today, it is that of Ceylon--the civilisation of Lanka--which for the 1500 years before the 12th century maintained a population of up to 20,000,000 people in a small and comparatively arid ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,072 words
  4. A BRACE OF GOLDEN TRIBUTES

    JOHN FLETCHER IS A TYPICAL REPRESENTATIVE OF FORGOTTEN GREATNESS. NOBODY HAS satisfactorily explained why some men, cutting an imposing figure in their own time, vanish from the annals of the memories of their fellows as completely as if they had never existed. It is as when a stately vessel founders in mid-ocean. The waves close over her and no trace of her magnificence remains. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,070 words
  5. An Englishman's Thoughts on America

    SINCE THE DAYS OF CHARLES DICKENS, ENGLISHMEN VISITING AMERICA HAVE hesitated to rush into generalisations about Americans and their way of life. In fact, those writers who most frequently make the westward crossing of the Atlantic are inhibited almost to the point of accepting, with tacit detachment, the English-speak ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,017 words
  6. Satire and Satirists

    THE CHIEF INGREDIENT OF SATIRE--WHETHER IT BE THE CAP-AND bells or the flaming sword type--is criticism, but not criticism alone. We mock at the drunkard when he staggers, but we may not satirise the toddling child when he wobbles. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 954 words
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