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  2. OUR AVIFAUNA.

    It Is not generally known that Australia possesses three species of the very handsome Birds of Paradise, and which live in the tall and dense vine-entangled jungles; and covering ...

    Article : 1,563 words
  3. THE "SKY PILOT."

    North of the Roper River, in the Northern Territory, lies a great stretch of almost unknown country named Arnheim Land. The Church Missionary Society has ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 816 words
  4. FAUST.

    Goethe found the subject of his greatest work, "Faust," on German soil, a legend rooted in the sixteenth century and connected directly with the Reformation. In that time the ...

    Article : 1,523 words
  5. WOMAN OF COURAGE.

    The mother of Henry Lawson had embarked upon her career as a social reformer as early as 1883, when she arrived in Sydney with her four children, Henry, Charles, Peter, and ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,031 words
  6. A DAY'S PICNIC ON CLARK ISLAND.

    An oil painting by Montague Scott, first exhibited in Sydney in 1870. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  7. SLIPPERS.

    It had been raining steadily throughout the night, and on opening the door in the morning we saw the most bedraggled, dilapidatedlooking pee-wee it is possible to imagine. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 382 words
  8. FOR THE CHILDREN. NAMING THE BABY GIRL.

    When "La Belle France" by war was rent, And Allies struggled on, Mothers were mostly well content With "Joan" or, perhaps, "Yvonne." ...

    Article : 97 words
  9. CLARK ISLAND.

    The interesting description by Miss M. Corringham of Clark Island (one of Sydney Harbour's beauty spots), printed in the literary page of the "Sydney Morning Herald" of ...

    Article : 616 words
  10. BANK OF N.S.W.

    Any corporate body having perpetual succession and a Common Seal has the right to obtain a grant of arms from the proper authority—the College of Arms. In Australia, ...

    Article : 1,167 words
  11. WATTLE.

    I'll tell you a tale of a fairy small, Who wandered away from Fairyland To a forest of friendly gum trees tall— Away from the happy fairy band. ...

    Article : 117 words
  12. THE BOY WITH THE PONY.

    About the year 1876 my grandfather on my fathers side (his name was James Gwyther) cut his way into the virgin bush from Alberton side to our present hom, called Flers, ...

    Article : 761 words
  13. VETERAN MUSICIAN.

    It is more than forty years since Sir Frederick Hymen Cowen visited Australia as an eminent conductor, so that it is good news to learn that he has ...

    Article : 479 words
  14. HOW THE BRIDGE WAS BUILT.

    With awe and admiration, all The children raise their eyes To gaze at Sydney's Harbour Bridge Outlined against the skies! ...

    Article : 75 words
  15. A FAITHFUL SHEEPDOG.

    I have spent all my fourteen years of life in the country, and consequently I am very fond of sheepdogs. My father has a very good one at present, named Nell. ...

    Article : 163 words
  16. NIGHT.

    Tiny birds are seeking rest, Flying to each downy nest; Now the dying, crimson sun Shows another day is done. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 113 words
  17. AUTUMN WIZARDRY.

    Autumn has spelled our mountains. Not as England would have it, a riot of gold and crimson and bronze, of cloud-flocked skies and the first magical drifts of snow. Autumn ...

    Article : 216 words
  18. THE SONG.

    This is a song that once was sung Under the world's first moon, For the words are old and the rhythm is old And ever so old its tune. ...

    Article : 137 words
  19. CONTENTMENT.

    Contentment! Sleeping beauty in a flower; Some waratah uncoiling in the sun, Unclaimed, ungathered as the long days drone, Sleep-waking in its own unscented bower. ...

    Article : 110 words
  20. LIKE A WILD HORSE LEAPING.

    I saw the wind like a wild horse leaping Over the land with a four-league stride. He swept from the plains, from the heights and hill tops, ...

    Article : 105 words
  21. MEMORY DRIFT.

    We two have lingered with the closing day, And loth to part in sipping sunset-wine; We've rambled long where love holds happy sway, ...

    Article : 74 words
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