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  2. CZECHOSLOVAKIA.

    To-morrow Czechoslovakia will celebrate the tenth anniversary of her freedom from oppression, and the country from the western corners of Bohemia to the east of far-away ...

    Article : 1,426 words
  3. SOUTH POLAR FLIGHT

    [Captain Davis, now Commonwealth Director of Navigation, was chief officer of the Nimrod in Shackleton's expedition of 1807-9, second-in-command of Mawson's. ...

    Article : 1,020 words
  4. CAPTAIN COOK.

    The tide in the affairs of Cook which, taken at the flood, led on to his more famous career, set in when, on the Northumberland, be distinguished himself by his indefatigable ...

    Article : 1,049 words
  5. THE GREAT NAVIGATOR'S HOUSE.

    At Leigli-on-Sea, a seaport on the Thames. (From the Drawing by Alan Stapleton, in the London "Observer.") ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 22 words
  6. DOROTHY COTTRELL.

    I have had two wonderful literary finds in my life; one when I was young, and one nearly forty years later. The first was Henry Lawson when he brought me (at No. 5 ...

    Article : 1,684 words
  7. COOK'S BIRTHPLACE.

    This north—eastern portion of Yorkshire is famous for its early and continuous events of historical import affecting English life, religious, political and social. ...

    Article : 1,445 words
  8. MODERN PAPER.

    A few months ago the "Herald" published an article on the comparatively short life of modern wood pulp paper, pointing out that valuable records might be lost through the ...

    Article : 735 words
  9. FOR THE CHILDREN.

    "John, Come on! Wash your hands and come to tea." (Johnnie's age is half-past three.) ...

    Article : 41 words
  10. SPEING COLOURS.

    Forget-me-not blue And peach blossom pink Look rather pretty together, I think. The old peach-tree, too. ...

    Article : 135 words
  11. AN AUSTRALIAN GENIUS.

    Mrs. Walter Cottrell, author of "Singing Cold." ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 10 words
  12. "ME-TOO."

    Some friends of mine were very fond of animals, and having no children lavished all thier devotion on a beautiful blue Persian and a very fine white and tan spaniel. These ...

    Article : 447 words
  13. LITTLE BLACK TRACKER.

    Tommy was six years old. He could swim and fish, and climb small trees, and was already skilled in the use of toy spears and boomerangs. His games embodied the ...

    Article : 907 words
  14. WILKINS'S ANTARCTIC FLIGHT.

    Sir George Wilkins and Lieut. Ellsen. his pilot, propose to fly from Deception Island, in the South Shetlands, along 300 miles of the coast of Grahnm's Lund, to an inland depot, whence they will endeavour to cross the unknown Antarctic Continent to the Bay of Whales, a distance of 2000 miles. There a ship from Tasmania will ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 72 words
  15. THE CRAYFISH.

    High up on the side of a gully we found him. There on a sloping ledge of rock was a pool about three feet in diameter, filled with voter, coloured a deep brown by the dead ...

    Article : 385 words
  16. HOMES AND GARDENS.

    Travelling by train on the North Shore line recently, I was delighted by the vistas of beauty, so welcome to tired eyes, that were to be seen from the windows of the carriage as ...

    Article : 380 words
  17. MARINE BORERS.

    The teredo navalls is probably the most redoubtable of nil the microbes which attack wood at sea, and, among other pecuHairities, appears to be less sensitive to low ...

    Article : 228 words
  18. THE FAIRY HILL.

    Build me a house where fairies linger On Knocknnshoega, the Fairy Hill, Far away from the towns and cities They gather to hold their revels still. ...

    Article : 154 words
  19. SPRING REJUVENATION.

    o mendows, flower again! O wild birds, sing! So I ma." tell bow bright ye be, how sweet! O sea, splash up your spray at my lone feet So I may sing and some small comfort bring ...

    Article : 129 words
  20. G.A.W.

    The kindest, simplest soul I ever knew; Generous In praise of things he could not [?] Blindly unconscious of all the potty tricks Which men in arrogance, call politics. ...

    Article : 89 words
  21. SONG IMMORTAL.

    The bird may die—the song will not; It passes on from age to age. Is warbled through some other throat. Is written on another page. ...

    Article : 33 words
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