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  2. POETRY NOTEBOOK by Michael Thwaites

    The first Christmas, in Christian belief, was the unique intersection of matters human and divine. The poetry of Christmas circles the twin points of humanity and divinity. THE SHEER POETRY OF ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,135 words
  3. NATIVES of the NILE

    A bridge links two towns at a point just above the junction of the White Nile with the Blue. Trams rattle between these towns with Omdurmanis clinging precariously to step and bumper, for Omdurman is the dormitory for Sudanese who work in Khartoum. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 912 words
  4. Bells and Carillons--

    If the St. Paul's Society of Bellringers, Melbourne, is able to muster a full team of ringers on the occasion of the visit to Australia in 1952 of His Majesty The King, lovers of the music of the bells -- true Britons all--will have repeated for them the magnificent peal of 5000 which ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,295 words
  5. STUDY of POSTWAR YOUTH

    Out of London, with the squalor of war ruin that still sits grimly around St. Paul's for a background, has emerged the most significant postwar novel on youth from the pen of any British writer--"The World My Wilderness" (Collins) by Rose Macaulay. It is an unusual but brilliant ...

    Article : 1,001 words
  6. BOSWELL'S LOST LOVE

    In Utrecht in 1763 "boy met girl" and "boy" was dazzled; and had he courted her with his heart and not with his head Boswell's "Life of Johnson" might never have been written. The "boy" was not the great Doctor, but young Jemmy Boswell visiting Holland as part of a European ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,216 words
  7. "MODERN" CHRISTMAS CARDS

    When the weary postman slides a Christmas card into your letter box, it probably never occurs to him that the first greeting cards were sent way back in the fifteenth century when the art of printing was in its infancy. NE OF THE EARLIEST OF ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 806 words
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