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  2. LIFE AND LETTERS

    In a recent "Observer" article, Mr. St. John Ervine has administered a wholesome warning against placing too much faith in the verdicts passed on ...

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  3. ESPIONAGE.

    It is a tribute to Mr. Oppenheim, to the indefatigable Mr. Wallace and to the late Sir. Le Queux that, even at this late stage, there has come the affair at the Italian ...

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  4. THE NEW ZEALAND ARTIST.

    In New Zealand, the arts, outside black and white, suffer from the same two drawbacks which affect the smaller Australian centres. The interest lies with only a ...

    Article : 930 words
  5. LIFE'S COMMONSENSE.

    "The wisdom of many, and the wit of one" is perhaps the best definition of a proverb. The traditional folk-wisdom of the Jewish people passed, as we saw last ...

    Article : 1,570 words
  6. PSYCHOLOGY FOR THE SIMPLE.

    Our State Premier (Mr. Collier) said in Parliament last week that a pyschologist was a person who tells us what we know perfectly in language We do not ...

    Article : 1,592 words
  7. EARLY DAYS.

    In 1872 this State was visited by Anthony Trollope, who was, next to Dickens, the most popular English novelist of the day. Of course, after his death, a reaction ...

    Article : 1,536 words
  8. BOOK REVIEWS.

    Frau Dill's remarkable book, "Der Grenzpfahl," which has achieved a notable success in Germany, has now been translated into English—an altogether admirable piece ...

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  9. BOOKS IN BRIEF.

    It will be remembered that, many years ago, Thomas Huxley signally and publicly disposed of Bishop Wilberforce ("Soapy Sam") on a question of biology. In ...

    Article : 1,474 words
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  11. A TOURIST OF DISCRETION.

    It is always difficult for a tourist to understand why he should not write a book about the countries he visits; he thinks, in his rapid survey, that he gets ...

    Article : 669 words
  12. THE PRINTED PLAY.

    Those who cried, "A terrible play, a wretched play," at the end of the first performance of John Galsworthy's "Exiled" in London a month or so ago, were ...

    Article : 594 words
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    In his book, "Twenty-five Years in Six Prisons," Mr. Eustace Jervis, who throughout this period" was a prison chaplain, says that the wife of a man who was ...

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    Apparently, Sir Arthur Griffith-Boscawen has suffered many unjust aspersions and insinuations with regard to his origin and nationality. In his book of ...

    Article : 159 words
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    In 1873 Whistler painted Carlyle's portrait. "Carlyle was not a patient sitter Directly he sat down he urged Whistler to 'fire away,' and was evidently anxious ...

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    In discussing the plays in which he has taken part during his long aud distinguished career as an actor, Sir Johuston Forbes-Robertson recalls a serious drama entitled ...

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    Alexandre Dumas, "pere," who hated meanness, was waiting for his cloak, after an evening spent in a fashionable house. A well-known millionaire received his cloak ...

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    One of the late Father Vaughan's stories was about a Roman Catholic missionary who was eaten by cannjbals: "He was not a luscious morsel, and during the feast the ...

    Article : 77 words
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