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  2. PIONEERS OF THE PEN.

    Few Australian writers of note have been more productive of literary output than Thomas Alexander Browne, Certainly of all our writers who have gained ...

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  3. ON CRITICS.

    We are all critics—of a sort—but "the vision and the faculty divine" in criticism is a rare possession, and we should respect the really great critic when he appears in ...

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  4. SAY IT BY 'PHONE.

    I have just made an amazing discovery. I have unearthed, in a Government department, a wonderful system of public financing which should go far to save the ...

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  5. WHAT'S THE ODDS?

    I am glad I broke the rule of a lifetime and went to the races. I know, and am properly apprehensive, of facilis dessensus, the way of all flesh, and that sort ...

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  6. THE LAST GAMBLE.

    Belmey had always been an inveterate gambler. The vice seemed to have been born and bred in his bones. His mother had blamed the doctor for this trait in ...

    Article : 595 words
  7. AN AMAZING WOMAN.

    The story of the life of the founder of Christian Science is an amazing and romantic record. Mary Baker Eddy's chief characteristic was an overwhelming urge ...

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  8. THE FROG IN HIS THROAT.

    Shiney pulled his coat-collar about his ears and shifted his chair and table a little further into the arcade. He had a frog in his throat to-day and he could not call ...

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  9. DENIZENS OF THE BUSH.

    Previous letters on this subject have shown kangaroos making for water early in the hunt, some straight from the moment of pursuit. As a rule, then, it seems ...

    Article : 1,571 words
  10. THE END OF THE MILL.

    There are mills and mills, of course, and some rise and fade away in a year or two; some, like Jarrahdale; seem to emulate Tennyson's brook and go on for ever ...

    Article : 1,114 words
  11. NAMING THINGS.

    If there is one job that I would like it is that of official name-giver, for the Camberwell Borough Council. Recently, so the London papers say, the council bought ...

    Article : 795 words
  12. AMERICA AND "WORLD FIXING"

    The greatest danger which can afflict any President of the United States is that constant and ever-growing temptation to enlarge the field in which as the engaging ...

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  13. THOSE HABITS.

    One of the things which most interests me in my patients is the extent to which they are dominated by habits. There has been a vast deal of writing ...

    Article : 457 words
  14. NEW BOOKS AND REPRINTS.

    "Pierre and Jean" and "On Mediterranean Waters." Vol. X., by Guy de Maupassant, translated by Marjorie Laurie (London: T. Werner Laurie Ltd.), 7/6. ...

    Article : 323 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:— ...

    Article : 116 words
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    Two red-faced individuals, attired in corduroys and gaiters, were strolling through a picture gallery, where they looked, and apparently felt, decidedly out of place. But ...

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    In his book, "The Drama of the Law." Judge Parry recalls the celebrated libel action Whistler brought against Ruskin in 1877. on which occasion he was awarded one ...

    Article : 236 words
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    It is in the nature of a truism to conclude that clergymen do not always believe all they preach. When the comet of 1885 was visible, placards were posted all ...

    Article : 145 words
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    The Late Sir Charles Hawtrey told a good story about Vice-Chancellor Bacon and Vice-Cbancellor Malings, who were the last two Vice-Chancellors on the Bench. ...

    Article : 117 words
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    A candidate for Parliamentary honours was emphasising his claims. "Return me to the House," he bleated, "and I will make my voice heard from Land's End to John ...

    Article : 106 words
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    The late Lord Rosebery was once inspecting a large establishment in the East End of London. The employees regarded him mainly as an owner of racehorses, and ...

    Article : 54 words
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