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  2. MEN AND IDEAS

    IT would be interesting to know how many people in Australia have heard of Sir Halford Macklnder's "Democratic Ideals and ReaUty," which appeared in ...

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  3. BOOKS of the DAY

    The habit of regarding Australia as an outlying part of Europe has persisted for too long. It is still customary to speak of our Near North as the Far ...

    Article : 236 words
  4. Letters to the Editor

    Sir,-Your report of Thursday's meeting of the trustees of the National Gallery makes me say "that Dr. Sizer had made it clear that paintership, or high ...

    Article : 206 words
  5. CENSORING THE STAGE

    THE question of stage censorship is raised again by State action in Sydney. This is one of the most difficult of questions. The mind of average understanding, ...

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  6. THE PASSING SHOW

    Another fine actor of the veteran group has left the stage of life. News of the death of Julius Knight has set many once-young palygoers recalling the ...

    Article : 1,298 words
  7. Flower-eating Lizard

    From Sutton Orange come the following excellent observations from Miss Ivy Taylor: "Early last December we noticed that a 'frill-necked' lizard appeared ...

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  8. LIFE AMONG THE GREAT ONES

    Ordinary mortals will find it difficult to pass of er a book the writer of which spent her childhood and youth in historic homes Her only associates were people ...

    Article : 436 words
  9. Comradeship of the Air

    Here is a book by a veteran flier, in which an exciting retrospect of man's hard but comparatively brief struggle to master the air Is told In singularly ...

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  10. CONTEMPORARY ART

    Sir,—We are not surprised that the trustees of the National Gallery hate refused us the further use of the McAllcn Gallery. One would perhaps have ...

    Article : 129 words
  11. New Zealand's Pride

    Exhibiting a proper pride in the scientific achievements of the Dominions sons the Government of New Zealand sponsors Mr. S. H. Jenkinson's thumbnail ...

    Article : 378 words
  12. TRADERS IN MISERY

    Sir,—Mr. Norman Lilley considers "The Grapes of Wrath" a "sour-sob' novel, comparable with "Camille" and 'East Lynne," Does he seriously suggest that ...

    Article : 338 words
  13. Psychology In Crime

    Readers of detective fiction accustomed to the British crime novel based more or less on the model of Sherlock Holmes will find in the stories of the ...

    Article : 436 words
  14. SUNDAY CHRISTIANS

    Sir,—Much has been heard lately about the Church's desire to contact and guide the man in the street, but the Church generally is not taken so seriously as it ...

    Article : 139 words
  15. Bygone Days BOURKE STREET FIRES OF 70 YEARS AGO

    ABOUT the middle of the sixties of last century the fire-flghtlng organisation of the City of Melbourne seems to have been at pretty, low water. The insurance ...

    Article : 855 words
  16. Victorian Satire

    Modern novelists who picture the people of the Victorian era as absurd and almost moronic tend to overdo things They forget that the Victorians escaped the ...

    Article : 270 words
  17. BAN ON OPERA TOUR

    Sir,—It is to be regretted that Mr. Fadden, in banning the proposed opera tour, has not considered the plight of unemployed musicians, of whom I am one, ...

    Article : 159 words
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  19. PEOPLE'S OPERA

    Sir,—Once more I put forth a plea for local opera at popular prices. We have at the moment picture houses crowded to capacity, and dance halls (at ...

    Article : 139 words
  20. Bridge Notes WAIT FOR IT

    I SAW the following hand ployed recently by a player who wishes to be nameless. His handling of the situation was not elaborate, it was not ...

    Article : 530 words
  21. John Masterman discusses HEART AND LIFE PROBLEMS

    THERE are many different kinds of courage, and different situations call for different exhibitions of the quality that makes up the stuff of life. ...

    Article : 431 words
  22. Books Received

    The Fall of the Idols, by W. R. Inge (London: Putnam, 8/6 net); A Thought for To-day (London: Frederick Muller Ltd., 1/3 net); Five Miles High, by the Members of the Karakoram ...

    Article : 272 words
  23. CHINESE QUESTION

    Sir,—A Japanese newspaper speculates that the terms for peace between Thailand and Indo-Chlna through the Japanese mediation are: ...

    Article : 115 words
  24. SOCIAL JUSTICE NOW

    Sir,—Federal Parliament has received no direction from the people to attempt social revolution. At the last election, however, all political parties ...

    Article : 265 words
  25. Advertising

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  26. IMPORTED ARTISTS

    Sir,-Correspondents who suggest that dollar exchange facilities for the importation of artists should be denied to my company miss the point. Our only claim ...

    Article : 201 words
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