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  2. NAPOLEON'S LETTERS

    Previous instalments of Napoleon's letters to his Empress, Marie-Louise, have shown the Emperor as an eager, exultant lover, and as a considerate and loving husband and father concealing the truth of his disastrous campaign in Russia. The letters in this instalment ...

    Article : 2,310 words
  3. ONE THING AND ANOTHER.

    "WYNDEE."—At a bridge party given in Subiaco last week the guest of honour was a lady who was about to embark on a trip to ...

    Article : 1,343 words
  4. PEWTER.

    THE displacement of the craftsman by the machine has been accompanied by the decline of simplicity and the development of a strong addiction to ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 480 words
  5. DENIZENS OF THE BUSH.

    "AT night the curlew wakes the silence with its disturbing cry like the wailing of a lost soul." Thus "Ariel," after hearing the land curlew, or stone ...

    Article : 726 words
  6. LIFE and LETTERS

    WRITING of the third and concluding volume of "The Life of Lord Carson," the biographer, Mr. Ian Colvin, says:—"The Third Volume of this Life of the great Irish ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,237 words
  7. NEW PUBLICATIONS.

    THE platypus (Ornithyrhincus anatinus) is Australia's most amazing animal. Among living creatures it is suigeneris. Nowhere in the world is there ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 674 words
  8. An Actor Looks Back.

    WHO among the readers of "The West Australian," in which journal these delightful vignettes of world celebrities first saw light, will not welcome their ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 375 words
  9. Life of the Bee.

    MUCH has been written about the bee From the earliest times until our own day the number of works that treat of bee life in every respect of fact and ...

    Article : 217 words
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    FABER (London) have issued Mr. George Blake's longest and most ambitious novel, "The Ship Builders." Few people can be more familiar than ...

    Article : 267 words
  11. Brief Reviews.

    MR. JONES, who ia an ex-able seaman and a leading torpedo-man in the submarine branch of the Royal Navy, has written a vivid account of his ...

    Article : 173 words
  12. A Domestic Comedy.

    THE curious terms of the late Major Gander's last Will and Testament provide a rich entertainment of that peculiar kind of light, or domestic, comedy ...

    Article : 590 words
  13. "Change Your Sky," by Anna D. Whyte. The Hogarth Press, London, 7/6. From the publishers.

    CONCEIVED in a delightful spirit of comedy, Miss Whyte's charmingly-written book describes the different personalities that forgather in a "pensione" ...

    Article : 219 words
  14. PALESTINE'S FIRST PRINTED BOOK.

    ANEW Book with a double distinction is "Hibbath Zion" ("The Love of Zion") by Nahum Sokoloy. It is the first book to be printed and published in ...

    Article : 353 words
  15. THE LETTERBOX.

    "Bettina" (Lines Written in Commemoration of the Opening of the Commonwealth Parliament on May 9, 1927, by H.R.H. the Duke of York): The subject is of no topical interest and ...

    Article : 269 words
  16. THE LIBRARY CORNER.

    GOOD and evil we know in the field of this world grow up together almost inseparably; and the knowledge of good is so involved and interwoven with the ...

    Article : 276 words
  17. "Adam's Daughter," by Robert Hill. Hodder and Stoughton, Ltd., London. 7/6. From the publishers.

    MR. HILL'S novel, although well written and interesting as a story, is hardly strong enough in characterisation to raise it above the average level of ...

    Article : 164 words
  18. "Excursions and Inquiries," by E. T. Brown. Allen and Unwin, Ltd., London. 7/6. From the publishers.

    IN this book Mr. Brown has collected a number of his miscellaneous essays, which cover a wide range, and wherein his peculiar gift of ironical comment is ...

    Article : 128 words
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