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  2. BERNARD SHAW

    In a previous article I said, "Look at Bernard Shaw's plays and you would say he was a socialist: look at his socialism and you would say he was a playwright." The ...

    Article : 1,335 words
  3. SAMUEL MARSDEN.

    When engaged In historical research in London in 1903, Dr. Thomas Morland Hocken, donor to the University of Otago of the Hocke Library, and one of the greatest scientific ...

    Article : 1,439 words
  4. "GALLOP!"

    When the spate of war books was at its height two years ago many people, repelled by the garbage that was being carried along in the flood, made a vow to avoid all ...

    Article : 856 words
  5. THE GOODWIN SANDS.

    I saw a thousand (earful wrecks: The leading article in the "Sydney Morning Herald" for September 10th, entitled "Lost Lands," which was based on a report by an ...

    Article : 1,499 words
  6. "WASTE WATER WASHES, AND TALL SHIPS FOUNDER, AND DEEP DEATH WAITS."-Swinburne.

    The Goodwin Sands, dreaded for so many centuries, are still a place of peril to unwary vessels. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  7. BILLY-CARTS.

    Oh! who would live in hilly parts, These halcyon days of spring, When children's shouts and billy-carts Do make the echoes ring! ...

    Article : 269 words
  8. OF "MASKS."

    The Mask at the Women's College, performed yesterday and to be repeated to-day, happily revives for us a form of entertainment that we might well enjoy more often. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  9. MACBETH REVIVALS.

    Now that the Thorndike-Casson combination is here to remind our playgoers of the absorbing interest which attaches to a firstrate performance of "Macbeth," something ...

    Article : 859 words
  10. FOR THE CHILDREN.

    I imagine a life "on the aerial wave," (Provided, of course, that the engine behave.) Being tasted at such a bewildering height, Must provide a perpetual thrill of delight, ...

    Article : 291 words
  11. NATURE'S WAY.

    One of the most interesting actions I have witnessed is the way the ant-lion captures its prey. The name, "ant-lion" suggests to the reader, ants and lions, and that is just ...

    Article : 222 words
  12. JOE MAXWELL.

    Lieutenant Joe Maxwell, V.C., M.C., D.C.M., late of the 18th Battalion, A.I.F., has written what might be described without disparagement as a series of machine-gun bursts about ...

    Article : 776 words
  13. THE MAY-TREE WEDDING.

    I walked one morn at break of day, And paused beneath a Tree of May. The quaintest sight I there did see, Beneath that dear old-fashioned treel ...

    Article : 198 words
  14. "NIKKY."

    Ever known a baby with soft yellow hair like the down of a fluffy little chick; eyes wide, brown and fearless, a nose just suggested, and a small mouth-bud that might ...

    Article : 193 words
  15. LOOKING-GLASS LAND.

    I've read about Alice in Looking-glass Land, But still there are things that I don't understand! In Looking-glass Land you're never sure, ...

    Article : 84 words
  16. MARSDEN'S MAORI MEMORIAL.

    This tablet of marble was placed In St. John's Church, Parramatta, In 1856, by Rev. Richard Taylor, of Wanganui, New Zealand, as a Maori tribute to the memory of "The Apostle to New Zealand," Rev. Samuel Marsden. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 40 words
  17. BEARDS.

    Most things move in cycles; fashions, weather, music, even beards. And now, after a long and practically hairless period, the dilettantish youth is seeking to revive what ...

    Article : 344 words
  18. THE LIGNUM SWAMP.

    Leagues of sand and hills of fire, Skies aflame with hot desire; Weird and lone beneath the sky, There the swamps of lignum lie! ...

    Article : 117 words
  19. WANDERLUST.

    When e'er I stand upon a lone sea shore And watch the dark blue ocean rise and fall, And see with wistful eyes the liners crawl Hull down through the horizon's hazy door; ...

    Article : 115 words
  20. CHRISTOPHER BRENNAN..

    You dwelt with us a little time, A poet true, and as the wind That sings and dies you passed away With ail the riches of your mind. ...

    Article : 84 words
  21. THE LOVELIEST TIME.

    Now is the loveliest time of all the year. When yellow lxias dance upon the grass: And the pale mauve wistaria drapes each fence, Shedding its subtle scent on all who pass. ...

    Article : 73 words
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