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  2. A FORECAST OF THE WAR.

    Our deep sympathy with Amerocans, both as kinsfolk and as the first nation which has risked a great war to stop a great oppression, does not blind us to the fact that ...

    Article : 1,146 words
  3. ELEPHANT HUNTING.

    A modern elephant-hunter is Mr. A. H. Neumann, who has many. curious adventures to relate in his last volume, "Elephant-hunting in East Equatorial Africa." ...

    Article : 674 words
  4. THE FLIGHT OF THE BLACK SWAN.

    The north wind was tossing the corks and orange peel upon oily waves in the brown Yarra, and whirling clouds of dust from the wharves along the viaduct and warehouses ...

    Article : 3,533 words
  5. TRADE WITH THE EAST.

    A few short years ago, when the commission from Australia flashed through the East preparing the way for a vast reciprocal trade, we in Australia—I was with ...

    Article : 1,081 words
  6. AMERICAN V. ENGLISH HUMOUR.

    Mr. George Grossmith, comparing American humour with English, says:—"A New York gentleman was once chaffing me about my pronunciation of certain words, and I ...

    Article : 318 words
  7. A SUBMERGED FIGHTER.

    The Americans have got nearest the idea of a submarine fighter with their diver Holland. She is designed to carry an 18in. torpedo-expulsion tube for discharging her ...

    Article : 384 words
  8. DEADLY AMERICAN GUNNERY.

    Thus early in the war the Americans have made their superior gunnery manifest, and it is already plain that their skill in this respect will have a marked, if not ...

    Article : 772 words
  9. ATBARA AND AFTER.

    The Sirdar's appeal to the troops on the morning of the battle was "Remember Gordon." No man was more entitled lo make this appeal than Sir Herbert ...

    Article : 670 words
  10. SCOTT—A CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM.

    In the "Memoirs of a Highland Lady" (Eliza Grant) an amusing notice of Sir Walter Scott occurs. The writer, it must be mentioned, was a woman of great force ...

    Article : 253 words
  11. AUSTRALIANS IN ENGLAND.

    Mr. Geo. Eneyl Lewis, son of Mr and Mrs. G.B.W. Lewis, of Melbourne (writes our London correspondent), is conducting the orchestra at the Strand Theatre, ...

    Article : 612 words
  12. OUR NEW "MAGNIFICENT MARINE OUTPOST."

    By comparison with Port Arthur and Kiaou Chau, the prizes which have fallen to Russia and German) respectively, our "coaling station" of Wei-hai-wei (lit. majestic ...

    Article : 375 words
  13. SIR MICHAEL HICKS-BEACH.

    Sir Michael Hicks-Beach is very generally aceepted in the House of Commous, and especially upon his own side, as being, in an all-round sense, the ablest man upon ...

    Article : 152 words
  14. ANOTHER CLAIMANT POSSIBLE.

    One of the most romantic stories of modern times is that of the predecessor to the present Earl of Aberdeen. The late Lord Aberdeen (elder brother of the ...

    Article : 275 words
  15. LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL.

    A bust of Lord Randolph Churchill was unveiled on April 19 in the corridor of the members' staircase of the House of Commons, the ceremony being performed by his ...

    Article : 225 words
  16. SPURGEON'S TABERNACLE.

    The burning of "Spurgeon's Tabernacle" is an event that recalls not a few notable memories. There is no doubt that, in spite of his intellectual limitations, Mr. ...

    Article : 197 words
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