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  2. PIONEERS OF THE PEN.

    Professor Ernest Scott has written:— "Australia has never run hort of poets. The rain may sometimes fail to fall when it should, and the rivers may dry up in ...

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  3. ART AND LIFE.

    Madame Pavlova's words, as reported recently in these columns, that we in Australia, "though we appreciate beauty in art when it is set before us, do not ...

    Article : 1,570 words
  4. MAKING A FOURTH.

    We had only been in the house two days, and the telephone had only been in one, so I sprang to answer the latter's summons with a certain blitheness. Amid ...

    Article : 1,072 words
  5. THINKING LOGICALLY.

    As I sauntered down a quiet street to escape the lunch-time throng the other day, I noticed two petrol cases of books at the door of a secondhand shop. Being ...

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  6. "THE FAIRCHILD FAMILY."

    If your children had lost their little tempers and you knew of a gloomy wood in which a murderer hung dead upon a gibbet, with his decaying face a horrible ...

    Article : 1,247 words
  7. ON WIVES AND OTHERS.

    There is a primitive satisfaction in knowing, that others are suffering as you are. Apart from the comfortable feeling, which doing and experiencing things in ...

    Article : 1,608 words
  8. DENIZENS OF THE BUSH.

    Mr. K. E. Cooper (Piawaning) sends alone a pencilled sketch of a lizard he recently found, one which puzzled him because he did not know whether it was a ...

    Article : 1,717 words
  9. FREEDOM OF THE SEAS.

    While opinions may differ as to the merits of the particular "foodship" proposals suggested by President Hoover in his Armistice Dav speech as ...

    Article : 1,141 words
  10. THE ART CRITIC.

    A heathen among artists, at spasmodic intervals I am taken in hand by one member of the family or another with a view to educating my tastes. I sleep ...

    Article : 633 words
  11. NEW BOOKS AND REPRINTS.

    "The Problem of Time," an historical and critical study, by J. Alexander Gunn, M.A., BSc. (London: Geo. Allen and Unwin, Ltd.). 16/ ...

    Article : 338 words
  12. THE MOSQUITO PEST.

    With summer upon us, we are again confronted with the problem of buying mosquito-netting to ensure peaceful slumbers. And apart from that and the Periodical ...

    Article : 371 words
  13. AN ARMISTICE DAY INTERLUDE

    I did not hear the gun. I was running down the stairs to the Terrace; an old gentleman on the lowest step touched me on the shoulder and put his hand up to ...

    Article : 188 words
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    In her book of reminiscences, "Life's Ebb and Flow," Frances, Countess of Warwick, tells a story of ,King Edward when he was Prince of Wales, and his fortitude ...

    Article : 225 words
  15. BOOKS IN DEMAND.

    The following list of "best-sellers" has been compiled from information supplied by the courtesy of several well-known Perth booksellers:— Fiction. ...

    Article : 113 words
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    In his book, "My Cricketing Life," Mr. P. F. Warner says, apropos of the journey home of the 1903 English team which toured Australia and New Zealand: "We ...

    Article : 95 words
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    When a young man, Dr. Blomfield, some-time Bishop of London, once preached at Chesterfield on the text. "The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God." ...

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    "The late General Booth," wrote a Sal­vation , Army official, "often used to urge the 'down-and-outs' to cultivate the quality of resourcefulness. He would illustrate this ...

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    Lord Chancellor Westbury had great presence of mind. One day he was in his carriage when the horse bolted. Lord Westbury put his head out of the window and ...

    Article : 44 words
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