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  2. The Bushlover.

    THESE are the warm summer evenings when insects como indoors to a bright lamp, like birds to a lighthouse. ...

    Article : 210 words
  3. Gold! Its Lure and Penalties.

    ALL through the ages the lure of gold has led men far afield. How many wars have been brought about through sheer ...

    Article : 423 words
  4. Pytheas of Marseilles.

    EVERY schoolboy knows, without the precocity attributed to him by Macaulay, that the history of Britain begins with the famous ...

    Article : 1,358 words
  5. Music and Drama. Gluck.

    TO picture to oneself the state of opera at the time of the birth of Gluck, one need only remember that stage ...

    Article : 231 words
  6. The Crown in Commission.

    THE appointing of a body of "Commissioners" or "Counsellors of State," to discharge the business of the Empire (as ...

    Article : 752 words
  7. Success in Paris.

    TROUBLE, however, began for Gluck even at the rehearsals of "Orfeo." The orchestra in Vienna rebelled against his exacting demands, and ...

    Article : 306 words
  8. A Gorgeous Duck.

    ONE of the prettiest ducks in Australia is the blue-winged shoveller, very rare in Queensland, as elsewhere, and known as the blue-wing, ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 232 words
  9. Not Forceful Enough.

    GLUCK died 26 years before the birth of Wagner. The span of Gluck's life covered years in the 18th century that corresponded almost to ...

    Article : 185 words
  10. In Modern Dress.

    THE experiment of playing Moliere's "Le Misanthrope" in modern dress has been tried at the Arts Theatre in London. The experiment ...

    Article : 268 words
  11. A Woman in London.

    I WAS talking to a man one day recently who said, "Women don't understand food. Give them an egg and a tin of sardines, ...

    Article : 394 words
  12. His First Opera.

    IN 1741, Gluck, then 27 years of age, produced his opera "Artaserse," the libretto of which was by Metastasio, the most noted librettist at that ...

    Article : 233 words
  13. The Wealth of Peru.

    PIZARRO had an easier task in Peru. There the masses, deprived of their leaders, were cut down with little resistance. They were less ...

    Article : 581 words
  14. Story of a Pearl.

    WE were talking of jewel stories the other night, and one man who was present said, "I'll tell you a story of a pearl. It happened years ago, before ...

    Article : 362 words
  15. A Friendly Wren.

    WE have got used to the glorious little red-backed wrens here, for they are now regular morning visitors to a patch of lawn just under a ...

    Article : 248 words
  16. A Thackeray Play.

    THE plays that appeal to both grownups and children are rare. And so it is, too, with books. Yet few of whatever age, can resist the spell of ...

    Article : 242 words
  17. The Immortal Shrine. Longstaff's Latest Picture.

    I HAVE been privileged to be among the first to view Captain Will. Longstaff's new picture "The Immortal Shrine," a companion ...

    Article : 537 words
  18. A Visit to England.

    AT the invitation of Lord Middlesex, Gluck, in 1846, visited England. There he produced "La Caduta de' Giganti." Handel was then at the ...

    Article : 228 words
  19. A Turtle Note.

    THAT much abused Frenchman, De Rougemont, was laughed to scorn when he first claimed to have ridden on the back of a turtle. He was ...

    Article : 216 words
  20. Cocktails and Clocks.

    THE prevalence of what some people are pleased to call "the cocktail habit" has had one curious result; everybody is giving cocktail shakers as ...

    Article : 296 words
  21. Which is the Worst?

    WHICH is the worst person to live with, an unpunctual one, or a super-punctual one? I have always prided myself on being very punctual, ...

    Article : 335 words
  22. His Art.

    AND here lies one of the secrets or Captain Longstaff's art. He can express the greatest emotion with the least display of effort. He knows how ...

    Article : 164 words
  23. The World of Pictures.

    CECIL B. DE MILLE, the producer-director for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer is offering 10 prizes—a first, of £200, and nine others, ...

    Article : 702 words
  24. Waste in Nature.

    THE turtle's one per cent, survival is not the worst example of Nature's callous waste. Throughout the bush one sees daily prodigality of life ...

    Article : 257 words
  25. Modern Art.

    WHAT he described as the "worship of ugliness" in modern art was the subject of outspoken criticism by Sir Frank Dicksee. P.R.A., when he ...

    Article : 321 words
  26. One Spoonerism. A Slip for Wits.

    DR. WILLIAM ARCHIBALD SPOONER, for 20 years and until 1924 the Warden of New College, Oxford, a white-haired ...

    Article : 110 words
  27. "Kinkering Kongs."

    "IT was at New College chapel in 1879," he said, "that I heard Dr. Spooner give out the number of a hymn and then read out the first line ...

    Article : 260 words
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