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  2. UNSATISFIED YEARNINGS.

    When General Wolfe was being rowed up the St. Lawrence to lead the surprise attack on Quebec he recited Gray's Elegy to the other officers in his boat. After he ...

    Article : 856 words
  3. LONDON SKETCHES.

    There are few street beggars in the West End. One day a man ran across a bystreet to me and humbly asked for a penny for a meal. I magnanimously gave ...

    Article : 1,218 words
  4. BUILDING A CATHEDRAL.

    To-morrow's ceremony of blessing and opening the completed portion of St. Mary's Cathedral, containing the north and south transepts, the eastern ...

    Article : 2,331 words
  5. OUR HOME.

    "Pedagogue": The following essay is from the pen of a 13-year-old girl. Rarely have I read such a vivid description of lowly life so naively told. ...

    Article : 560 words
  6. PAWNBROKER HEADMASTER.

    Not so long ago, I was talking to an old Harrovian at Australia House, and, in a moment of weakness, he confided to me that the headmaster was a licensed ...

    Article : 589 words
  7. VILLAINS AND VANITY.

    Not long ago, in England, the perfect murder—that supreme achievement in crime which has a perennial attraction, for the authors of the "thriller," and their ...

    Article : 874 words
  8. SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY.

    Science affects the average man and woman in two ways already. He or she benefits by its applications, driving in a motor car or omnibus instead of a ...

    Article : 1,574 words
  9. THE BOB'S WORTH.

    "I want to go out to-night," said Phyllis. I Laughed hollowly. "We are trying," said I, "to bring up ...

    Article : 749 words
  10. MAY DAYS.

    These are happy days. For one thing you can still get a good apple, sound, firm and full of sap, and there is still, somewhere or other, rummaging among leaves ...

    Article : 401 words
  11. GOLDFIELDS NOMENCLATURE.

    The Bret Harte style was not old fashioned in the early nineties, when our goldfields were being opened up. The author of "The Luck of Roaring Camp," and "The ...

    Article : 643 words
  12. HER BUSINESS.

    "Can you tell me the way to Subiaco, please?" The pathetic note in her voice brought my eyes down to her wan face, which ...

    Article : 667 words
  13. THIS TRACTOR QUESTION.

    Now Bill and I are qualified to talk about this. When we started the farm we needed only one lot of power, but as soon as more was cleared and rolled ...

    Article : 809 words
  14. NEW BOOKS AND REPRINTS.

    "A Generation Missing," by Carroll Carstairs (London: William Heinemann, Ltd.), 5/. ...

    Article : 595 words
  15. HOME-MADE BEAUTY.

    I went out the other morning and found the old earth trembling with beauty. The flooding moonlight had gone and the eastern sky was filled with the bright, clear ...

    Article : 461 words
  16. WHY DO WE SAY IT ?

    To say that two people fight like Kilkenny cats is to give the impression that nothing will ever stop them fighting. The Story goes that some Hessian ...

    Article : 177 words
  17. BOOKS IN DEMAND.

    "Escape," by F. Nitti. Publishers, Messrs. Putman. "Imperial Economic Unity," by Lord Melchett. Publishers, Messrs. Harrap. ...

    Article : 110 words
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    As dramatic criticism of a kind, the following example, taken from a Runcorn paper and quoted by Mr. J. B. Booth in his entertaining book. "London Town." ...

    Article : 145 words
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    "Boss": A phenomenon occurred in my office this morning—not a rushing, flashing, bursting meteor, but just a simple affair that encourages one to believe that ...

    Article : 90 words
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    The "British Weekly" fears that it is upon mental sloth that the best seller usually fastens. All that the author does is to give in fiction some shadowy ...

    Article : 89 words
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