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  2. POETRY NOTEBOOK

    Robert Burns is more than a Scottish national hero. The problems he grappled with have peculiar point and relevance in many parts of the world today. THE DILEMMA WHICH ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,058 words
  3. WORLD-FAMOUS SAILOR

    Everybody interested in the sea must have heard of Captain Slocum and his celebrated yawl, the Spray. For in this 40-foot vessel, in 1898, he was the first man to sail single-handed around the world, and his 46,000 miles feat has never been equalled. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,108 words
  4. LURE OF THE ISLANDS

    Amid the complexities of modern life the idea of an island existence, remote and far from the tax gatherer and all that he implies, isolated from the rumors of war, hot or cold, has a fascination as powerful as it is unreal. On the island of men's dreams life is lounging on a ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 922 words
  5. BEAUTY and the BEAST

    Beauty and the beast may subsist within the compass of a single personality. They dwelt together in Samuel Johnson. The beauty was the beauty of his strong and simple soul; the beast was represented by the apparent boorishness of his behavior. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 992 words
  6. PRISONER OF THE JAPANESE

    Peter Hartley was a sergeant with the British forces which surrendered to the Japanese in Singapore. In the confusion that followed immediately afterwards he was amongst those who escaped to Sumatra through which an organisation of sorts was helping ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 997 words
  7. STALIN in the FAMILY CIRCLE

    A Russian story relates that a town desiring to erect a memorial to Pushkin submitted several designs to Stalin for his approval. He chose one depicting a massive statue of himself holding a book on. which was engraved, in small letters: Pushkin's Poems. ...

    Article : 538 words
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