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  2. ARE THERE TIDES ON THE STARS?

    A few years ago astronomers and physicists generally accepted Lord Kelvin's estimate of the age of the sun as probably about 20,000,000 years, an ...

    Article : 478 words
  3. FREAK GOLDFISH.

    No fish is more deserving of fame as an aquarium inmate than the common goldfish, for it has suffered more than any other, not only from ignorance as to its ...

    Article : 610 words
  4. THE BIBLE FOR CHILDREN.

    Mr. Arthur Mec, in "The Children's Bible: the Greatest Book in the World in its Own Words" (Hodder & Stoughton,) drastically "sub-edits" the Amhorised ...

    Article : 422 words
  5. DEAN INGE AND ALFRED NOYES.

    It is a long time since I have read a book of literary essays with greater pleasure than Mr. Alfred Noyes "Some Aspects of Modern Poetry" (writes Dean ...

    Article : 495 words
  6. THE ART OF THE EPIGRAM.

    The vogue of the epigrain rightly belongs to the eighteenth century, when poetry had in it, generally speaking, more thought than feeling. It was a gesture of the ...

    Article : 560 words
  7. SUN'S FIREWORKS AFFECT EARTH'S RAINFALL

    Britain may look forward with a high degree of confidence to a dry 1925, and the British Empire Exhibition authorities may count on weather very different from ...

    Article : 317 words
  8. ITEMS OF INTEREST.

    The Primate then preached a sermon deelating that all men are brothers. In accordance with a new Army order recruiters are to wear, instead of the ...

    Article : 943 words
  9. FILMS THAT SPEAK.

    The problem of fitting the human voice to the cinematograph film has been solved. In November last, at the Royal Society of Arts, London, Mr. C. F. Elwell ...

    Article : 586 words
  10. CARAVAN CHRONICLES.

    Tied by circumstances to town life, with its conventions and limitations, many readers will find these reminiscences of the road interesting and diverting. The ...

    Article : 2,474 words
  11. THE FLYING AGE.

    slowly mankind is learning the uses of flight. The days when Cabinet Ministers could make our susceptible minds wonder at their zeal in duty's cause by ...

    Article : 619 words
  12. JOSEPH OF ISRAEL AND KING TUT.

    Dealing with the identity of King Tutankhamen,the "Jewish World" quotes Professor Selikovitsch, the Egyptologist, in the "Jewish Fortum" (an American ...

    Article : 228 words
  13. THE CHILDREN'S, "BOSWELL".

    Lady Grey of Fallodon, when her children were little (at which time she was lady Glenoonner), followed the delightful [?] of recording their original saying ...

    Article : 278 words
  14. A SKYSCRAPER UNIVERSITY.

    Pittsburgh, usually called smoky Pittsburgh, because of its vast mining and metal industries, but withal a city of great civic pride, where some of the most ...

    Article : 236 words
  15. "TESS" ON THE STAGE.

    On November 26 at Dorchester, the Hardy Players, who so successfully performed "The Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall" in 1923, produced a dramatic ...

    Article : 474 words
  16. BY AIRSHIP ACROSS THE ARCTIC.

    Lecturing to the Norwegian Geographical Society on November 26, the German airship commander. Captain Bruns, explained his plan for a Zeppelin cruise ...

    Article : 247 words
  17. EVENING WEAR FOR MEN.

    Judging by the number of men seen lately in restaurants and theatres wearing the white tie and tailed coat in the evening, Englishmen are reverting to a ...

    Article : 381 words
  18. THE LONGEST TUNNEL.

    When the City and South London Tube was reopened on December 1 trains rar, through 10 miles of what will soon be the longest tunnel in the world. ...

    Article : 412 words
  19. ARMISTICE SUNDAY IN AMERICA.

    Armistice Sunday will henceforth play a very important part in the United States in the "mobilisation for international Justice and world peace." It has been agreed ...

    Article : 219 words
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  21. THE NEW PLANET.

    The now minor planet and, with one exception, the nearest to the earth, the discovery of which was recently rported, way found on a photograph of the sky ...

    Article : 465 words
  22. REVOLVING "SAILS."

    A couple of bare and very fat masts whirling swiftly round would, at first sight, appear to the a very poor method of propelling a ship, yet that is a brief ...

    Article : 401 words
  23. THE ART OF TRANSLATING.

    The comparative failure of Dr. Moffatt to capture the poetry of the old Testament in his up-to-date and possibly more literal version (writes A. Boyden in the ...

    Article : 417 words
  24. "ECCLESIASTICAL CAPERS" BANNED.

    In the Episcopal Church of st. Maik's New York on November 23 last an Indian choir of Mohawks and Sioux chanted their native hymns while the organ ...

    Article : 355 words
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