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  2. IN THE PAPERS.

    According to a London publisher, the society craze for the game of bridge has caused a great falling-off in the demand for books. ...

    Article : 2,750 words
  3. AMONG THE FEDERAL MEMBERS.

    There have been exhibited in Parliament this week the two extremes of political action, the transcendental and the merely venomous. Mr. Deakin has been actuated ...

    Article : 1,401 words
  4. THE OXFORD LIFE.

    In October of this year Victoria's first Rhodes scholar will be going into residence at Oxford to acquire, among other things, the famous polish of that ancient university. ...

    Article : 2,191 words
  5. LONDON STREETS.

    The Australian who has been through the capitals of his own states is utterly unprepared for the picture presented by the streets of London. After all he has heard ...

    Article : 2,089 words
  6. THE PASSING SHOW.

    A caucus of the unattached members of the hard-labour corner was held at Tug Murphy's rooms, to hear the report of their leader on his negotiations for a coalition ...

    Article : 2,011 words
  7. MACLAREN'S CRICKET "DON'TS."

    Mr. A. C. Maclaren, a master of cricket, almost as well known in Australia as in England, contributes to the "Pall Mall Magazine" for May a short article, headed ...

    Article : 1,771 words
  8. A FORGOTTEN ROMANCE.

    Mr. Basil King, in "Harper's Magazine" for April, revives the memory of the romance of Citizen Jacques Marie Rouzet, a royalist professor of law, who in 1792, in ...

    Article : 1,646 words
  9. THE QUEEN OF THE BOOKS.

    "A book for your wife? How strange you men are! You all say the same thing—leave it to me, and the rest. Just as if I know what every woman likes! But let me see ...

    Article : 799 words
  10. THEY ARE SIXTY-SEVEN.

    met a little Mormon girl; She was just eighteen, she said. Her hair was dressed with one big curl That dangled from her head. ...

    Article : 268 words
  11. OPERATIC "STAR" ADMIRATION.

    Most operatic stars, if good-looking, get letters from admiration-struck girls. The "New York Times" tells of one experience, as described by a chorus man:— ...

    Article : 401 words
  12. IMMORTALISING LIARS.

    The Dyaks of Borneo (says the "Sarawak Gazette") erect a tugong bula (or pile of branches) by the wayside to the memory of every man who told a big lie. The persons ...

    Article : 185 words
  13. A FORGIVING CHINESE,

    A Cossack, in a fit of drunkenness, had shot a Chinaman (writes Mr. Whigham, in "Manchuria and Korea"), and it was necessary to bring several of the men to the ...

    Article : 151 words
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