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  2. REVIEWS OF BOOKS.

    "The Life of William Thomson, Baron Kelvin of Largs," by Silvanus P. Thompson (two volumes); Macmillan & Co., London.— To be busily engaged all one's life on ...

    Article : 1,383 words
  3. A PRACTICAL REFORMER.

    "The Federal Liquor Service," by Tullie Wollaston; Thomas C. Lothian, Melbourne. —The art of persuasion is a great thing; Mr. Wollaston has it. It is rare to find ...

    Article : 1,157 words
  4. WRITINGS AND WRITERS.

    [It has often been a matter of controversy whether, in his inimitable "Robinson Crusoe" Defoe had not largely availed himself of facts communicated by Alexander Selkirk. Sir Walter Scott has ...

    Article : 1,561 words
  5. UNFINISHED STORIES.

    The death of authors like Marion Crawford and George Meredith, great masters of fiction, who must have left a tale or two untold, recalls to mind that many novels ...

    Article : 738 words
  6. THE WISEACRE.

    I disagree with the saying that "Time is money," as I believe time should be regarded as infinitely more valuable than money.—Sir Oliver Lodge. ...

    Article : 333 words
  7. SPRINGTIME.

    Spring and the wattles, and a thousand perfumes rare, And the purple tetratheca, and the myriad orchids blue; ...

    Article : 94 words
  8. THOMAS HARDY.

    Thomas Hardy, the novelist and poet of Wessex, who has lately given to the world a new volume of powerfully tragic poetry, strangely entitled "Time's Laughing Stocks, ...

    Article : 1,363 words
  9. SPIRITUAL IDEALS AND RESEARCH.

    "The Faith and Modern Thought;" by William Temple; Macmillan & Co., London.— These half dozen lectures have been issued in book form for the benefit of ...

    Article : 170 words
  10. FRENCH OR GERMAN?

    If you are so fortunate as to speak Scotch, and have been speaking it all your life, whether do you speak French or German? How does a Scotsman catch cold? ...

    Article : 1,503 words
  11. A METHODIST BISHOP.

    "Francis Asbury," by George P. Mains, with an introduction by Bishop Daniel A. Goodsell; Robert Culley, London (Methodist Book Depot, Adelaide).—This is a ...

    Article : 236 words
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  13. INTERESTING READING.

    "A Blot on the 'Scutcheon," by May Wynne; Mills & Boon, London (George Robertson Proprietary, Adelaide).—Miss Wynne has produced a number of ...

    Article : 193 words
  14. RACING AND ATTRACTION.

    "The Sporting Chance," by Alice and Claude Askew; Ward, Lock, & Co., Melbourne (E. S. Wigg & Son, Adelaide).— These popular writers have tried a new ...

    Article : 301 words
  15. THE DEADLY SUBURBAN GARDEN.

    "No. 19," by Edgar Jepson; Mills & Boon, London (George Robertson Proprietary, Adelaide).-"If you like the pickles, prithee try the sauce," urged an advertisement ...

    Article : 262 words
  16. POEMS AND RHYMES.

    Note.—Standing at the shore end of the breakwater at Victor Harbour, I saw the waves outside tossing up their snowy heads, as though they would fain kiss the sky. All was hurry, noise, ...

    Article : 251 words
  17. MISCELLANEOUS.

    From Mr. W. H. Maiden, Government Botanist of New South Wales, part 8, of vol. IV., of "The Forest Flora" of that State. This publication has already ...

    Article : 505 words
  18. LIGHT AND SENSATIONAL.

    "The Matheson Money" by Florence Warden; John Long, London (George Robertson Proprietary, Adelaide).—Lovers of light and sensational literature can ...

    Article : 156 words
  19. CHARLES DICKENS'S ONLY HYMN.

    The poem which is given here is the one hymn that Dickens is known to have written. It appeared anonymously in the Christmas number of Household Words for 1856. A clergyman wrote ...

    Article : 224 words
  20. CLERGY'S DUTIES AND DIFFICULTIES.

    "The Clergy and Social Life," by the Very Rev. W. Moore Ede, D.D.; Edward Arnold, London.—Though these lectures were primarily intended for the theological ...

    Article : 238 words
  21. HIGH LIFE, LOVE AFFAIRS, AND HORRORS.

    "Belinda Treherne," by L. T. Meade; John Long, London (George Robertson Proprietary, Adelaide).—A long distance sepa-rates blameless "schoolgirl" stories and ...

    Article : 154 words
  22. DOES NOT RING TRUE.

    "The Anger of Olivia," by Thomas Cobb; Mills & Boon, London (George Robertson Proprietary, Adelaide).—Mr. Cobb's plot has been frequently used before, and with ...

    Article : 202 words
  23. AMONG THE SHADOWS.

    Soothed by the cool, soft, singing breeze, Sweet scented as youth's golden hours, Where shadows of the restless trees Were dancing in among the flow'rs. ...

    Article : 247 words
  24. SALT AND ADVENTURE.

    "White Walls," by Max Pemberton: Ward, Lock, & Co., Melbourne (E. S. Wigg and Son, Adelaide).—In South Australia, where salt is a staple product, it is ...

    Article : 260 words
  25. AN IDIOT WITH BRAINS.

    "Brummell Again," by Cosmo Hamilton; Mills & Boon, London (George Robertson Proprietary, Adelaide). —All playgoers know the Huntley type—the kind of ...

    Article : 392 words
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  27. A MINING GUIDE.

    "The Mining Manual" by Walter R. Skinner; George Robertson & Co.—This valuable work has reached its twenty-fouth year of publication. The ...

    Article : 306 words
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