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  2. UNUSUAL MEMORIAL.

    About two miles out of Harbin, in Northern Manchukuo, there is a plain which very closely resembles our black soil plains of the north-west. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 826 words
  3. COLUMCILLE.

    In a little Irish town called "Gartan, in the hills of Donegal was born in the year 521 a prince of the Royal House of Leinster, who was named Columba. His coming was ...

    Article : 1,329 words
  4. THE COUNTRY PARSON

    The last tale ot the Canterbury Pilgrims was that told by the "Persoun," after the host had asked him, "Sir Prest, art thou a vicary. or art a parsoun?" The person of a parish. ...

    Article : 1,252 words
  5. DALKEITH, CASSILIS, IN THE MUDGEE DISTRICT.

    At Dalkeith, the home of Sir Frederick and Lady McMaster, the Governor—General of New Zealand, Lord Bledisloe, and Lady Bledisloe will stay during their brief country tour of New South Wales. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 37 words
  6. OLD DALKEITH.

    In view of his association with the old Residency at Waitangi, Bay of Islands, the visit of the Governor-General of New Zealand (Lord Bledisloe) to Dalkeith Station, Cassilis, ...

    Article : 1,465 words
  7. SOLDIER OF FORTUNE.

    "Adventurer," the title given to "the autobiography of one Frank Tarbeaux," is quite frankly used in its worst signification, implying a soldier of fortune rather than one ...

    Article : 1,165 words
  8. OUR CIRCUS.

    Our circus was to be a wonderful affair. For weeks before the performance it was the sole subject of conversation for the younger generation of our town, as we, that is, myself ...

    Article : 764 words
  9. SATINETTE.

    She was about three years old when first 1 met her. It was in a delapidated gunyan in a deserted blacks'camp, in the far north. Her mother, a comely young lubra, was not ...

    Article : 789 words
  10. FOR THE CHILDREN.

    We're going away on holidays. Our bags have all been packed. We're waiting for the taxi man to call. I'm dressed up most uncomfortably; my shoes ...

    Article : 222 words
  11. LAZYVALE.

    Along the road to Lazyvale, Half way to Half Past Nine. I found a little daisy dale. And sat down there to dine; ...

    Article : 138 words
  12. A SIDELIGHT.

    I printed once a verse in praise Of someone's child. That day Its father, mother, sister, brother Called in on me to say ...

    Article : 177 words
  13. PHILATELY.

    A feature of the Melbourne Centenary celebration, of interest to stamp collectors, is an exhibition of rare collections, to which the Britirh post-office department has made ...

    Article : 303 words
  14. THE OLD SUBURB.

    With the calm that settles oven things that have had their day, the old suburb lies slumbering on its peaceful hill. Not so far, as the crow flies, from colonies of Spanish bungalows ...

    Article : 337 words
  15. A GOOD-NATURED TABBY.

    Imagine my astonishment when visiting a friend at Balgowlah the other day. A fine old cat was dozing on the lawn. Presently a pee-wit flew down from a neighbouring ...

    Article : 153 words
  16. THE CATAPULT.

    Johnny made a catapult, his motive frankly bad. ' But then a cat upon a wall, A tempting target makes for all. ...

    Article : 68 words
  17. OUTSPREAD WINGS.

    From somewhere in the quiet house a clock strikes five. I turn over for a last delicious half-hour's drowsing. But just then a little breeze whisks the casement curtains on one ...

    Article : 266 words
  18. HIDDEN GRIEF.

    How often amid those who seem, in our masquerade world, to be clothed with smiles, and who hold no discourse save on "familiar matters of to-day," should we find one whose ...

    Article : 275 words
  19. A CAMBRIDGE PARSON, 18th CENTURY.

    An early cartoon (1772) by Bunbury, the leading caricaturist of the time. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 20 words
  20. TAGORE.

    Whence came the sacred name that lit thy lamp. Which burneth radiant, bright? Came it from that illumined forest-dawn ...

    Article : 92 words
  21. NIGHTFALL.

    Across the cape the trade wind blows, Lo. sable Night day's clamour spurns; A meteor, like a furnace glows Far out where flaming Sirius burnst ...

    Article : 107 words
  22. OVER THE HILLS.

    Over the hills and far away There lies my heart's desire— Cities washed with morning's gray, ships asleep in a foreign bay, ...

    Article : 83 words
  23. REALITIES.

    Only a fresh ploughed field, A dusk sky over; Shadows that fade and die, A curlew's eerie cry, ...

    Article : 50 words
  24. BITTER-SWEET.

    Forget-me-nots and red rose buds Twined in a bouquet daintily, These Love did give, with one request, That he might woo eternally ...

    Article : 69 words
  25. FRUGAL FARE.

    Oh, kiss me with your eyes, my sweet; Your lips I may not touch; Yet still my heart leaps high to greet That glance which says so much. ...

    Article : 56 words
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