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  2. ONE THING AND

    "HOTSPUR."-A prominent firm of undertakers announced in the Press recently: "Prices to suit all cases." What they probably meant was "Cases to suit ...

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  3. A STRANGE GENIUS.

    EARLY in 1922 a thin man with haggard cheeks, cavernous eyes and a red beard came to Perth seeking something he could not find in Europe. That man ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  4. DENIZENS OF

    A Tenterden correspondent was entertained by one of his camp squeakers, which approached his fireside one morning to pick up a piece of hard bacon rind. ...

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  5. PERTH'S FIRST HOSPITALS.

    WHAT is a hospital? If by a hospital we mean a place where a doctor establishes himself in order to attend the sick, then the first hospital in the Swan River ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,632 words
  6. LIFE and LETTERS.

    CLASSICAL literature occasionally strikes a surprisingly modern note. M. Petronius, for instance the conversation— one would not go quite so far as to say ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,422 words
  7. SOME NEW BOOKS.

    THIS is the first volume of "Duckworth's Hundred Years Series," and if the present book is any indication of the nature of those which are to follow, ...

    Article : 721 words
  8. Recent Verse.

    OF these examples of contemporary verse one is inclined to award the palm to Mr. Kendon for his admirable rendering of an age-old theme—the immortal ...

    Article : 651 words
  9. RECENT FICTION.

    ONCE again James—otherwise Sir James Montgomerie, Bart.—makes a welcome reappearance, this time as a somewhat unwilling passenger on a luxury liner ...

    Article : 269 words
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  11. Essays and Addresses.

    THE late Mr. Stobart was a recognised authority on all educational questions, and the posthumous papers which constitute the bulk of the matter contained in ...

    Article : 586 words
  12. Testament of Youth.

    THIS is the autobiography of Tan Shihhus, formerly a young Chinese student in the Russian College of the University of Pekin as set forth by S ...

    Article : 712 words
  13. "Seventy North," by "Taffrail." Hodder and Stroughton, Ltd., London. 7/6. From the publishers.

    FEW modern writers of fiction can tell a clean, wholesome tale, well-spiced with adventurous happenings, better than Captain Taprell Dorling. It is true that ...

    Article : 282 words
  14. "The Virgin's Brand," by Leo Perutz. Thornton Butterworth, Ltd., London. 7/6. From Albert and Son. Ltd., Perth.

    "THE Virgin's Brand" was the name given by the peasants of Westphalia, in earlier centuries, to a blight that frequently affected their corn crops; and this ...

    Article : 286 words
  15. Adult Education.

    THE English Adult Education Movement has attracted a great deal of attention in recent years, not only in England, but also in other countries. It presents an ...

    Article : 192 words
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    Mrs. Beatrice Kean Seymour has written a good deal of literary criticism, but she is test-known as a novelist. "Maids and Mistresses" (Messrs. Heinemann) and ...

    Article : 46 words
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    Mr. William Kent is an authority on "cricketance," Dickens, and the literary history of London. His guide-book, "London for Everyman" (Messrs. Dent), which ...

    Article : 41 words
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    Mr. Frank Kendon has written several books of verse, but ife best-known for that classic of childhood recollection, "The Small Years." He has for some time past ...

    Article : 36 words
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