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  2. ART IN AMERICA.

    The citizens of the United States are great builders and nowhere in the United States does this quality find greater expression than in New York. Rockefeller Centre, the home ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,433 words
  3. FAMOUS TREES.

    Trees are like people, glad in the spring time, putting on bright and fine garments; and sad when arrive the melancholy days of autumn: shivering together at the first blasts ...

    Article : 1,577 words
  4. "THE RED LION," AVEBURY, WILTSHIRE

    It was inns like this that gave Dickens the material for his scenes at Mark Tapley's "Blue Dragon." ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 23 words
  5. "THERE IS A TAVERN."

    From Shakespeare and Shenstone to Dickens and Defoe, the poets and the prosewriters of England have combined to sing the praises of the English inn; and Doctor Johnson has ...

    Article : 1,566 words
  6. DOLDRUM ISLES.

    Arhno atoll was on our port side at daybreak after leaving Jalult. Hugging the land, we were off a trading station an hour before noon. There the atoll is tape-narrow. ...

    Article : 1,164 words
  7. JUST SCHOOL BOOKS.

    Just school books, rather soiled and dogeared, but packed carefully away in an old cak chest. The faint fragrance of moist violets drifts through the open window, pale ...

    Article : 223 words
  8. FOR THE CHILDREN.

    Seven little sisters sitting in the sky, Seven little women from the Long-gone-by, Seven dark daughters of the same house. With bright black eyes like a little wee mouse. ...

    Article : 197 words
  9. SPAIN'S GOLDEN AGE.

    In the East they do not like Somerset Maugham. He has accepted the hospitality of people, they say, listened to confidential gossip, and then gone away to put it all into ...

    Article : 1,005 words
  10. AUGUST

    August in the Highlands—Scotland[?] The remembrance of it brings to us the peaty smell of heather beneath a warm autumn sun: to our ears the sound of water falling on ...

    Article : 943 words
  11. A FIRESIDE KITTEN.

    "Little Black Boy" lies, as I write, beside me, gazing into the fire. His fat little body is taking up most of the chair I am sitting on, for he is stretched out contentedly to catch ...

    Article : 256 words
  12. THE FAIRY ORCHESTRA.

    The fairies have an orchestra That plays such tuneful songs. And there's all kinds of Instruments, From bells to clanging gongs. ...

    Article : 133 words
  13. SMILER AND BIDDY.

    The original idea when Smiler and Biddy were first introduced into the garage in which they live, was that they should act as watch[?] dogs and guard their owner's establishment: ...

    Article : 188 words
  14. KITTEN.

    Pretty little creature soft and grey of fur, How I love to hug you, listen to you purr. Innocent your eyes are, wide and darkly grey: Scampring round the garden, nought to do ...

    Article : 129 words
  15. "THE PILOT OF TONGA."

    Charles Meryon, who has been called "the father of modern etching," left the French Navy of his own free will in order to devote himself to art. But at a later period ...

    Article : 420 words
  16. THE LARGEST CEDAR IN EUROPE.

    This tree, in the Jardin des Plantes, Paris, is 201 years old. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 17 words
  17. THE GATE OF MEMORY.

    About 20 miles west of Quirindi, on the road that runs through Spring Ridge and on to Binnaway and Dubbo, is the little township of Caroona. It is a typical country ...

    Article : 262 words
  18. EVENING AT HOME.

    Smoke curls up the chimney, and a lurching log falls On to the fender, while outside wildly the wind Follow the shooting stars—Insistently it calls ...

    Article : 160 words
  19. LAKE MINNERI.

    The Lake of Minnerl lies softly dieaming, A shimmering of rose and blue and gold; And on its bosom lazily comes drifting A pelican in dazzling sunlight's hold. ...

    Article : 139 words
  20. COMPENSATION.

    The haunts of men are dull and grey, Begrimed with dust and smoke— But I saw a maid with a rose at her breast, And knew that Beauty spoke. ...

    Article : 127 words
  21. BLACK MAGIC.

    Dark eyes, that hold the darkness of the night Yet, radiant with the beauty of a star Have lit my soul with love's immortal light Revealing paradise I thought was far[?] ...

    Article : 38 words
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