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  2. TOLD IN A BOOKSHOP.

    To all booklovers there is something magical about the bookseller's art—it seems inadequate to call it a business— which invests its details with neculiar ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 2,230 words
  3. THE LIBRARY TABLE.

    "Maxims of life and Life and by John Winamaker (Harper & Brother New York). Mr. Wanamaker was not only a ...

    Article : 2,451 words
  4. SMALL TALK.

    In her book, "My Crystal Ball," Miss Marbury has many interesting pages about French celebrities. She was once at the house of a Madame Aubernoon, who ...

    Article : 215 words
  5. Books & Writes

    chinson & Co., London, and "Pong Ho," by Dorothea Flatean; same publishers (from F., W. Preece). If supply be ab indication of demand ...

    Article : 1,435 words
  6. MEN, WOMEN, AND BOOKS.

    English friends, have, received a letter from the Japanese widow of Lafcadio Hearn, saying that she and her four children of the marriage escaped without harm ...

    Article : 229 words
  7. THE WISEACRE.

    All place that the eye of Heaven visits. Are to the wise man ports and happy havens. I think with compassion of the unhappy ...

    Article : 343 words
  8. POEMS AND RHYMES.

    I would not like to live to be very old, To be striupped cold and bare Of all my leafage that was green gold In the delicious air. ...

    Article : 124 words
  9. When the' Queen Laughed.

    From "My Years of Indiscretion:—Lord Campbell, a sauctimonious man, by some means or other got the Duke to go to the English Church in Paris. Walking ...

    Article : 204 words
  10. SONG.

    The merchant, to secure till treasure. Conveys it in a borrowed name; Euphelis serves to grace my measure; But Choloe is my real flame. ...

    Article : 113 words
  11. Leaving for Japan.

    Japan is claiming more than its fair share of English men of letters. Mr. Edmund Blunden has just accepted the professorship of English literature at ...

    Article : 54 words
  12. THE LOVER FINDS SOMETHING OUT.

    As one may stand upon a river's bank Lustered with daisies and forget-me-not, And in a pool as clear as any tank Behold the little fish, with purple shot ...

    Article : 197 words
  13. Variations.

    I shall not pass tils my again, So it's no matter what I do I'll mess the pasture, spoil, the track, I do not care a damn for you. ...

    Article : 181 words
  14. Doctors and Divines.

    Samuel Richardson was a shopkeeper before he became a printer, in which capacity the idea occurred to him to tell a story in the form of letters—"Pamela." ...

    Article : 203 words
  15. TAKEN FROM BOOKS.

    Ah, Whistler was the one to ray unkind things. But yod forgave him because he bad a war with him. And there wan always the hope that, when he bad ...

    Article : 123 words
  16. THE COMING OF AUSTRALIA'S LITERATURE.

    Mr. J. C. Squire bag some interesting things to say in The London Observer in reviewing "A Book of Australian Verse," edited by William Murdoch. ...

    Article : 665 words
  17. "Little Mary."

    A story of Miss Viola Tree, the actress when a child:—"She bad been instructed on no account ever to mention the word 'stomach.'_At a luncheon party given ...

    Article : 133 words
  18. Compton Mackenzie.

    Compton Mackenzie has just finished "The Heavenly Ladder," which makes the final volume of his Trilogy. London gravely report that he is now ...

    Article : 116 words
  19. Seeing the Queen.

    I went to Court once to see the Queen I had a new pair of boots. They squeaked. They squeaked all the way from London to the Isle of Wight. The Queen was ...

    Article : 134 words
  20. BERNARD SHAW SPEAKS OF AUSTRALIA.

    The publication of Mr. D. H. Lawrence's "Kangaroo," Mr. Robert Keable's visit to the antipodes, the novels of Louie Cooperus, Stevenson, Rupert Brooke, and ...

    Article : 346 words
  21. Byron Centenary.

    The newspapers of Great Britain publish long articles commemorating the Byron centenary. A message from Athens shows a charming episode in the Greek ...

    Article : 167 words
  22. A First Night Notice.

    Mr. William Shakespeare, whose well-meaning little costume play "Hamlet" was given in London for the first lime last week, bears a name that is new to us. ...

    Article : 162 words
  23. LATE SIR CHARLES NICHOLSON'S LIBRARY.

    Sir Timothy Coghlan, Agent-General for New South Wales, has received from Sir Charles Nicholson, Bart, a large portion of the library collected by his father, the late ...

    Article : 425 words
  24. Food.

    Anne—I'm liking my supper. Latimer—I am so glad. I shot the bird, myself! What is it. Dominie? Dominic—Poulet en casserole with ...

    Article : 46 words
  25. Lenin.

    He was, before all-things, of the breed of Robespierre—a homicidal pedant. If he was a pedant who believed that the whole world was worth destroying to establish a constitution of big own ...

    Article : 80 words
  26. PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

    From Angus & Robertson, Limited, Sydney— "Contemporary British Artists" (Charles Shanon and Ambrose McEvoy). A second revised edition of "Equal Pay and the Teaching ...

    Article : 420 words
  27. ANCIENT "DAILY DOINGS."

    Journalism was practically unknown among the Roman. Yet there did exit the germ of a newspaper which under the title of The Daily Doings of the Roman ...

    Article : 161 words
  28. Legal Milestones.

    The scarlet robes of our Judges, the vestige of the coif upon the crown of their wigs, the sad gowns and "weepers" of a Bar which is still in mourning for the ...

    Article : 95 words
  29. Advertising

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    Advertising : 137 words
  30. The Mind.

    Man cannot even sleep with a blank mind. The mind refuses to be blank. The millstones of the bruin grind on, while the stream of life runs. And they grind ...

    Article : 49 words
  31. IN FAITH AND HOPE.

    Whit though the skiers be dull and grey," And earth he drenched with rain? The next may be a sunshine day? And skies be blot again. ...

    Article : 151 words
  32. Advertising

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    Advertising : 97 words
  33. Poets and the Abbey.

    To none of the three great contemporary poets of the early nineteenth century—Byron, Keats and Shelley—has a place in the Poets Corner of the national ...

    Article : 45 words
  34. Pierre Loti and Death.

    "In default of this faith, could we but anchor, ourselves to something to some hope, some immortality?. But there is nothing. Outside this ...

    Article : 54 words
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