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  2. LAND, SEA, AND AIR.

    Leaving the Kingsford Smith Aerodrome at 8 a.m. on the morning of Saturday, December 5, the D.H.86 airliner Lepina made rapid headway against a strong southerly, under ...

    Article : 1,698 words
  3. PEPYS AND EVELYN.

    One of the most famous friendships of the seventeenth century is that between Master Sam Pepys and Master John Evelyn, two public officials with private interests in ...

    Article : 1,394 words
  4. PIRANDELLO.

    In "Lazarus," one of his later plays, Luigi Pirandello set out to show that true faith is not in Individual immortality, but in "the universal life, the gift of God in Whom we ...

    Article : 1,218 words
  5. PICTURED WINDMILLS.

    The people of the Egyptian, Babylonian, Roman, and other ancient civilisations used primitive querns, slave of cattle mills, and watermills to crush their grain. Gradually ...

    Article : 989 words
  6. "THE FARMERS ARE THE FOUNDERS OF HUMAN CIVILISATION."—DANIEL WEBSTER.

    A. Study from the "Herald" Art Gallery. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 34 words
  7. FOR THE CHILDREN.

    All day my son had been a perfect pest, Had caused a din and broken toys with zest. And so I set his feet upon a chair, And scolded him as he stood silent there. ...

    Article : 114 words
  8. TRAVEL SKETCHES.

    I concluded my last article with my weekend visit to Leicester, on leaving which interesting town on October 30 1905 I caught the morning train to Rowsley, a small village, ...

    Article : 1,043 words
  9. JOURNALISM.

    A majority of contributors to a discussion on the alleged decline of poetry were agreed on the main point that it had declined, while assigning various reasons and taking, some a ...

    Article : 1,123 words
  10. ESCAPE.

    "I certainly am in 'a quandary!" exclaimed Algernon from his perch in the gold cage that matched so perfectly his glossy feathers. "My mistress is always so careful about ...

    Article : 361 words
  11. THROUGH THE VALLEY.

    When the winds are softly calling, And the stars are out on high, When the cloak of night is falling O'er the dusky autumn sky, ...

    Article : 127 words
  12. THE PUPPY AND THE ANT.

    "Oh, deari" sighed the small brown puppy, "I really don't see why That ant won't be nice and friendly I think I'll have another try." ...

    Article : 117 words
  13. ON LEAVING SCHOOL.

    The long-awaited day Has come at last. To-day is the last day of the term-the last term, for us. For months, nay years, we have been planning what we should do when school ...

    Article : 292 words
  14. THE FARMER.

    'Tis early morn, the cocks begin to crow; The farmer rises from his bed to go About his duties on the farm that day, First milking cows and then in stacking hay, ...

    Article : 193 words
  15. COOKS WHO KNOW.

    The Kitchen art of the Maori is, or was until civilisation taught the modern native to acquire a taste for European food and ways of Preparing it, a comparatively easy ...

    Article : 479 words
  16. NON-INTERVENTION UPHELD BY SPARROW.

    Whilst working in the garden the other day I noticed a sparrow pick up a small ball of loose wool threads, and carry it to a bushy rose tree, where he deliberately dropped it ...

    Article : 207 words
  17. LITTLE ANNE.

    She was small and round and cosy, Dimpled cheeks and colour rosy, Fragrant as a maytime posy, Little Anne. ...

    Article : 85 words
  18. IS RADIO OVERDONE?

    While it is true that Liszt wrote piano arrangements of Schubert's songs, and Gounod converted a Bach prelude into the ever-welcome vocal solo, "Ave Maria," it does not ...

    Article : 409 words
  19. CHERRY BLOSSOMS.

    Leaving Tokyo, the busy city of Japan, we travelled in a small boat several miles up the lovely river that was so still that the azure of the sky was mirrored in its clear depths. ...

    Article : 139 words
  20. HADDON HALL.

    Renowned for the romance ot Dorothy Vernon. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 10 words
  21. WHITE PIGEONS.

    White pigeons whirl against the blue, Stoop to the ridge-tiles, perch and preen Feathers immaculately clean; And, murmuring as pigeons do, ...

    Article : 67 words
  22. TRIBUTE.

    These only are the truly great. Who conquer fear and vanquish hate; And yet, so lowly are of mind. Neither condemn nor judge mankind; ...

    Article : 57 words
  23. REFLECTION.

    There is a restlessness which they possess who leave all else to see one aim unfold; Their long work shattered, theirs the bitterness. ...

    Article : 34 words
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