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  2. CHINESE MENTALITY.

    Our correspondent in China wrote as follows on August 10, from Shangh[?]:— Only a collapsed bridge. Yet it is intensely symbolic. A bridge spanned the Soochow Creek ...

    Article : 692 words
  3. BRUSSELS.

    [The following is part of a letter [?] by a Sydney resident from a sister visiting Brussels, who writes with a flowing [?] for the benefit of the family. Her [?] in Brussels is an Australian cousin, ...

    Article : 1,217 words
  4. AUTHORS' WEEK.

    The profession of letters has never been very lucrative in any age, except for a fortunate few. Even a man of the eminence of Chaucer wrote a Complaint to his Purse; ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 979 words
  5. AUSTRALIAN NOVELS.

    Peer down over the hat-brim of the ma[?]den in the tram and you will find that the chapter Into which sho burrowa her powdered none is set in the Channol Islands. The conductor's ...

    Article : 1,070 words
  6. COOLAH VALLEY.

    From one point of view country and city are in deadly opposition; but from another they are integral, and together rise and fall with the seasons. Each, after all, is but part ...

    Article : 1,481 words
  7. BRIDGE AT SHANGHAI.

    The Chinese allowed this steel structure at Markham-road io break down rather than see it repaired by the hated foreigner. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 23 words
  8. FOR THE CHILDREN.

    On the road to chicken soup Are many stopping-places. Nurbes stand and nurses stoop, And doctors wear long faces. ...

    Article : 147 words
  9. THE UNIVERSITY.

    [Mrs. Jacob is a daughter of Morris Birkbeck Pell, who was first Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in the University, and occupied that position for 25 years.] ...

    Article : 465 words
  10. AUTHORSHIP.

    Everybody knows "Punch's" famous advice to those contemplating matrimony. "Don't!" The same curt reply must be made in all sincerity to those who are contemplating ...

    Article : 1,212 words
  11. FROST-MAGIC.

    There was a frost last night; It came down quiet and white While we slept snug in bed. It turned the pools [?] glass, ...

    Article : 130 words
  12. DROUGHTS.

    Records indicate that every ten years drought prevails (writes Mr. L. Green, of Enngonia, in a letter to the Editor of the "Herald"). Yet, somehow, mankind, in its ...

    Article : 807 words
  13. PUSS IN LOOKING-GLASS.

    Goodness me! Now, who is that? This remarkably strange cat! I'm this house's cat, I know; Stranger cats will have to go. ...

    Article : 150 words
  14. MRS. AENEAS GUNN.

    In the year 1308 there was published in Australia a book which was destined to achieve an immediate and wide popularity, and which many competent critics—and those not ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 445 words
  15. "TAIL" OF THE LYRE BIRD.

    "Nature's Theatre, Mountain Gully. For a Limited season only Professor Lyre Bird, the celebrated dancer and ventilloquist, will give dally performances until further notice. ...

    Article : 653 words
  16. PALESTINE.

    The following is an extract from a letter received this week from Mrs. Robert Drayton, wife of the Solicitor-General for Palestine, by her sister, Miss Beatrice Phillips. ...

    Article : 564 words
  17. ORIGINAL, OR COPY?

    The shadowy ghosts of pictures that a painter starts to bring to life on canvas and then impatiently paints out and covers over with a new and better design can be brought ...

    Article : 357 words
  18. BAULKHAM HILLS.

    All through the golden sunlit noon, These hills and valleys lie uswoon, With golden shafts pierced through. This lonely road's a silver track, ...

    Article : 149 words
  19. DOGGEREL.

    Dear Master, I'm mission ye sadly, Although to their credit I'll say That they're feedin me no' just so badly[?] I've biscuits and [?] every day. ...

    Article : 118 words
  20. THE ANSWER.

    O the, glamour of the morning. If you wake with daylight dawning. When the blushing East is veiled in mystic ligth: ...

    Article : 94 words
  21. SHADOWS.

    Soft massed clouds are drifting by, Pearl and rose on a turquoise sky. The sun-drenchod plain that dreams below is love[?] still for the shade they throw. ...

    Article : 56 words
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