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  2. A Great Johnsonian: Dr. Chapman's Essays

    R. W. CHAPMAN POSSIBLY KNOWS AS MUCH AS ANYBODY ELSE IN the world about two topics which seem to pop up at every turn on certain levels of English literary life. The topics are Samuel Johnson and Jane Austen. His edition of Jane Austen's letters was reviewed by us ...

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  3. OUTSTANDING AUTOBIOGRAPHY

    AUSTRALIA HAS HAD NO MORE COLORFUL OR EXCITING TIMES THAN THOSE OF THE gold rushes. Gold first put Australia on the map, it placed the struggling squatters on their feet and, above all, it produced a race of hard-living, versatile Australians like no other on our Continent. Our last great gold rushes were in the nineties to Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie and, because these were ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,489 words
  4. Among the Universal Laws: Preview by Toynbee

    OF ALL CONTEMPORARY HISTORIANS ARNOLD TOYNBEE IS THE most famous, because he is the most ambitious. Alone amongst his colleagues he keeps alive the custom, more common in the nineteenth century, of writing universal history. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 988 words
  5. SELLING LIFE ASSURANCE

    "TAKE THIS BOOK," SAID THE EDITOR AS HE THRUST IT UPON ME WITH one hand and kicked me out of his sanctum with the other--(they encourage writing of vivid English in this Supplement)--"there might be an article in it," he added as he closed his door firmly behind me. Gratified by this unusual exhibition ...

    Article : 987 words
  6. Some Verse at Random

    SEE, that is Venus shining. Her clear sad light Venus, Falls like a thread of dew To cool the drought of the ...

    Article : 226 words
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