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  2. CURRENT LITERATURE.

    Although in theory most of us will admit that insects have a beneficent purpose in the scheme of things, it is not always easy to say just what this purpose is, for in most ...

    Article : 1,319 words
  3. THE LOST TRIBES.

    Mr. Mervyn had no time to thank his sister-in-law for her consideration for his wishes. D[?]lia appeared. "Say, Della," said Mrs. Dann, "is there a ...

    Article : 2,342 words
  4. THE CHURCHES.

    The version of the New Testament in Esperanto, which was recently published by the B.F.B.S. conjointly with the National Bible Society of Scotland, has already passed ...

    Article : 2,804 words
  5. MUSIC AND DRAMA.

    Mr. Henry Bracy is retiring from theatrical life, and thus the Australian stage will lose one of its best-known figures, as singer, stagedirector, entrepreneur, and manager in front ...

    Article : 1,579 words
  6. THE CONQUEST OF THE DESERT.

    It almost seems as if the word "desert" would soon have to be expunged from the dictionaries. In Australia we are beginning to find that we have no such thing, ...

    Article : 467 words
  7. A SIDELIGHT ON THE PENINSULAR WAR.

    Every Englishman and every Australian knows of the Corunna campaign, if only from the famous ode on the burial of Sir John Moore. How near this famous retreat came ...

    Article : 323 words
  8. DAMS AND ORNAMENTAL LAKES.

    The recent correspondence in the "Herald," in which the fundamental necessity of drainage works was advocated in the city planning of Canberra, lays the problem open to ...

    Article : 846 words
  9. SOME NEW NOVELS.

    "The Lizard" is an excellent story of native Indian life, by H. Vaughan Sawyer. The scene is set amidst the sands and rocks of Baluchistan, and the characters are Baluchis ...

    Article : 859 words
  10. LORD CROMER'S ESSAYS.

    The making of modern Egypt was the Earl of Cromer's life-work, and, though he has now retired from active participation in the world of affairs, his experience in the art of ...

    Article : 576 words
  11. JEAN HENRI FABRE.

    M. Fabre, the great French naturalist, recently entered upon his 91st year. Darwin described him as an "inimitable observer," and his "Souvenirs Entomologiques," ...

    Article : 276 words
  12. MILITARY.

    One of the great advantages that the Australian army enjoys is that it can command the services of experienced soldiers from the Imperial Army to assist in the work of ...

    Article : 95 words
  13. JANE AUSTEN.

    The latest addition to the English men of letters series is a biography of Jane Austen, by F. Warre Cornish, with which she takes het place along with Fanny Burney, Maria ...

    Article : 453 words
  14. INFLUENZA.

    There is a general impression that influenza is quite a modern disease, but Dr. Arthur F. Hopkirk corrects this in an interesting monograph on the subject. Influenza has a history ...

    Article : 421 words
  15. PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

    Mordecai MacCobber: Schlein-Mazel (Sunbury News). From G. Robertson and Co.: Merry Marauders, R[?]s (Heinemann); Simple Simon, Lyons (Bodley Head); Solano. ...

    Article : 46 words
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