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  2. MISCELLANEOUS.

    From Witherby & Co., London.—"The Royal Navy List and Naval Recorder." The January issue of this standard work is a complete record of the Royal Navy and ...

    Article : 552 words
  3. WRITINGS AND WRITERS.

    Nothing In the world affords a newspaper reporter so much satisfaction as gathering up details of a bloody and mysterious murder, and writing them up with aggravating ...

    Article : 1,838 words
  4. THE WISEACRE.

    Sorrow is the mere rust of. the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten, [?].—Dr. Johnson. Cultivation of the mind is as necessary ...

    Article : 298 words
  5. POEMS AND RHYMES.

    Friendship, peculiar boon of heaven. The noble mind's delight and pride. To men and angels only given. To all the lower world denied. ...

    Article : 150 words
  6. RELICS OF GORDON.

    Some interesting mementoes of the poet Gordon were secured last week by Mr. W. Farmer Whyte, a Sydney resident, who visited Brighton, Victoria, where Gordon ...

    Article : 146 words
  7. REVIEWS OF BOOKS.

    "Modern Warp and War Taxes," by W. R. Lawson: Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh.—Mr. Lawson, who long years ago was a prominent and valued member of ...

    Article : 1,430 words
  8. W.C.T.U.

    The State Executive of the Women's Christian Temperance Union of South Australia met on Wednesday morning, Mrs. E. W. Nicholls (State President) occupied the chair. Sympathy was ...

    Article : 239 words
  9. WIT AND HUMOUR.

    Chatty Individual (standing refreshment to casual acquaintance)—"I dessay you've, had a pretty hard life—mostly on the 'boards' I suppose?" Tragedian—"Harder ...

    Article : 572 words
  10. STURT.

    Sturt! the stalwart-hearted hero! he who found our river great! Gave a highway of the waters to a waiting continent ...

    Article : 385 words
  11. MOVING PICTURES.

    "The Story of France," by Mary Macgregor; T. C. Lothian, Melbourne.—The long list of volumes of famous tales "told to the children" to her credit, and the remarkable ...

    Article : 289 words
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  13. A DISPUTED TITLE.

    "God Disposes." by Pellew Hawker; Greening &, Co., London.—Closer Wharton and her brother Guy are faced, at the beginning of this story, with a sufficiency of ...

    Article : 99 words
  14. A DREAMY SINGER.

    "Penetralia," by Sydney Jephcott; Thomas C. Lothian, Melbourne.—This seems to be the day of the thoughtful, rather exotic, poet in Australia as opposed ...

    Article : 333 words
  15. LITERARY NOTES.

    Such is the renown that Omar Khayyam enjoys in the Western world that one is almost shocked to learn how little honour is paid to the poet in his own country. In ...

    Article : 1,976 words
  16. A MYSTERY OF BIRTH.

    "Esther Grant." by A. D. Murray; John Long, London.—When a Girton girl of beauty and refinement claims as her father a rough North of England fanner, with ...

    Article : 106 words
  17. THE OINEMATOGRAPH.

    (With apologies to C. H. Souter)":—From "J. S. B." Each day brings us the fame old round of work ...

    Article : 249 words
  18. AN AUSTRALIAN WRITER.

    "Captain Quadring," by William Hay; T. Fisher Unwin, London.—This book will have a special interest to South Australians, because the writer is a member of a ...

    Article : 220 words
  19. EUGENIC NOTES.

    The birthrate in 1908 of Scotland was 27.2; of England, 26.5; of the Australian Commonwealth, 26.3; of Ireland, 23.3; and of France, 20.2. The low birthrate of ...

    Article : 454 words
  20. MAN THE DECEIVER.

    "The Verge of Twilight," by E. O. Caroline; Hurst & Blackett, London.—There is a vogue in Smith African stories which is in itself sufficient to create an interest in ...

    Article : 164 words
  21. MULTUM IN PARVO.

    From Home University Library (Williams & Norgate, London)—The 10 latest volumes of wonderfully cheap "Home University Library" of those enterprising ...

    Article : 1,322 words
  22. CHIEFLY FOR CHILDREN.

    "Hang Andersen's Stories and Fairy Tales," translated by H. Oskar Sommer, with 24 pictures in colour hv Cecile Watson: T. C. Lothian. Melbourne.—The ...

    Article : 499 words
  23. ROYALTY IN SUBURBIA.

    "The Steel Crown," by Fergus Hume: Digby, Long, & Co., London.—In Mr. Hume's new novel, a London suburban boarding house is the background for Royal ...

    Article : 301 words
  24. BEAUTY IN DISTRESS.

    "Sekhet." by Irene Miller: John Lane, London.—If the object in writing this book were to expose the difficulties which beset a girl cast adrift with no asset save beauty ...

    Article : 399 words
  25. VICTORIAN TERSE.

    "Purple and Gold." poems by Frank S. Williamson; Thomas C. Lothian, Melbourne.—Mr. Williamson brings to Australia poetry a scholarship which is not ...

    Article : 560 words
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