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  2. THE LIBRARY TABLE.

    "The Idle Hours of a Victorious Invalid," by Lane Crauford (Chapman & Hall, London; Robertson and Mullens, Melbourne). ...

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  3. THE WISEACRE.

    AU things come to an end; Life is a failing voice; Light has gone from the day, and trust in lover and friend; New that the dusk is gray I will the ...

    Article : 386 words
  4. POEMS & RHYMES

    The raked earth is warm with Spring, And with green frets and bursting trees Leans to the sun's gaze glorying. And ouivers in the sumay breeze: ...

    Article : 321 words
  5. FRANCIS BACON.

    Last month was the 300th anniversary of the death of Francis Bacon, thinker, courtier, statesman, Lord Chancellor, and author of works which are credited with ...

    Article : 661 words
  6. NEW PUBLICATIONS.

    South Australians will be interested to learn that Professor Hancock of the Adelaide University, has written a book on Ricasoli, and the Risorgimento in ...

    Article : 196 words
  7. MEN, WOMEN AND BOOKS.

    Sir Felix Semon, the distinguished laryngologist, whose "Autobiography" is to be published iu book form shortly, has many interesting facts to tell about King ...

    Article : 381 words
  8. Bohemian Life of the Seventies.

    M. Ludovici, whoso recollections were published in April, was an art student in Paris in the seventies, and so has many interesting stories to tell of the Bohemian ...

    Article : 106 words
  9. MASTS ABOVE THE HOUSETOPS.

    Tall masts that stand where the highways meet, what place for you in a builded street? For were born in the forest's lap. And clothed in sunshine and fed with sap. ...

    Article : 194 words
  10. Scientist and Poet.

    Science occasionally provides some of the highest exponents of the art, and the poems of Sir Charles Sherrington, the President of the Royal Society, have ...

    Article : 129 words
  11. M. POINCARE'S MEMOIRS.

    M. Poincare, in his voluminous memoire, devotes several pages io the Prince of Wales. The Marquis de Breteuil, whom Edward VII had honoured with his ...

    Article : 582 words
  12. BRAINS NEED NOT APPLY.

    "If not a good raconteur," says Sir Felix, "the King had a keen sense of humour. He related that, shortly after the end of the Boer War an English ...

    Article : 166 words
  13. FRANCES,S.E.

    Sett blow the winds by Cadnite's lake And sweet the are by Frances town. The winds and waters in the moonlight wake And fatry footsteps light as thistledown. ...

    Article : 140 words
  14. Modern "Art" Explained.

    A book that will soon be in demand by artiste and architects is Mr. Frank Rutter's (the eminent English art critic) "Evolution in Modern Art: a Study in ...

    Article : 97 words
  15. THROWING THE BOOMERANG.

    One wonders whether the fact that an eminent Australian man of letters, Mr. H. C. Chomley, editor and owner of The British Australasian, is reported to be ...

    Article : 223 words
  16. Economics and History.

    Students of economics should be interested in a series of books upon current economic problems which Alien & Unwin have arranged to publish in the ...

    Article : 125 words
  17. RECENT FICTION WORTH READING.

    One of the questions discussed at the recent Australasian conference of the Associated Booksellers of Australia and New Zealand was bow to meet the ...

    Article : 376 words
  18. A SELF-REVELATION.

    The accession of James brought Bacon new hopes. They were at first disappointed. For a time he seems really to have wavered between polities and the ...

    Article : 451 words
  19. ARNOLD BENNETT.

    It does not seem to bo known to many of his admirers that Arnold Bennett served an apprenticeship to the practical side of journalism on a weekly paper ...

    Article : 238 words
  20. SIR EDGEWORTH DAVID.

    Sir Edgeworth David, Professor of Geology, at the University of Sydney, is in London hard at work on a book which, it ia said, will collate all that is known ...

    Article : 177 words
  21. SIR DOUGLAS MAWSON IS BUSY.

    The charm and disinterestedness of Sir Edgeworth's character are well known, and the following story, current in London at present is an Illustration of this ...

    Article : 166 words
  22. A Master of Method.

    One of the most remarkable tilings about Arnold Bennett all through bis career has been his habit of reducing everything to a system. Three Years after ...

    Article : 217 words
  23. AUTHORS HOWLERS.

    From "J. L.," Warramboo—In reference to "Author's Howlers," published on this page last week, I fall to see how Tllen Cunningham erred in his lines: ...

    Article : 312 words
  24. HIS PLACE IN SCIENCE.

    In fact, Bacon made no angle discovery in natural science himself and no single discovery baB been made, or indeed could be made by the famous method of ...

    Article : 433 words
  25. Impediment of Speech.

    When first he come to London, Bennett was severely handicapped by an impediment in his speech. This was no mere stammer, but a positive difficulty of ...

    Article : 144 words
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