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  2. AT THE PICTURES.

    Our country town is small and the circuit pictures come once a fortnight. We sit in a draughty hall on hard seats for half-an-hour or so before the show starts. Some ...

    Article : 688 words
  3. EXAMINATIONS.

    An interesting New Zealand experiment, the results of which were announced on June 20, has thrown new light on the subject of the effectiveness of school ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 582 words
  4. CAMILLE PISSARRO.

    July 10 is the centenary of the birth of the Creole Camilo Pizarro—or Camille Pissarro, as he called himself. To commemorate this event, an ample collection ...

    Article : 1,123 words
  5. FATHER OF THE MAN.

    Look here, Miss, I'm awfully sorry, but I can't possibly give you a subscription this year. Yes, I know it's a good cause— haven't I supported you for years? But ...

    Article : 1,616 words
  6. LONDON SKETCHES.

    The immense volume of traffic which courses through the London streets does not make half as much fuss about it as do the relatively small number of vehicles ...

    Article : 1,076 words
  7. VIENNA.

    Austria (including Hungary) before the Great War held within its boundaries a population of between 50 and 60 millions. Austria's population was composed of ...

    Article : 1,396 words
  8. PIONEERS OF THE PEN.

    The short story has been the first-born of prose literature throughout the ages. From the folk-lore of individual countries, handed down from generation to ...

    Article : 1,684 words
  9. NOMADS OF THE NORTH-WEST.

    With clanking chains dangling from waists and legs the squad of imprisoned natives comes shuffling along the road. A warder, armed with a rifle, marches ...

    Article : 788 words
  10. SCAT, CAT!

    Sam Surbiton lives at South Perth, and is an enthusiastic gardener. Recent bountiful rains stimulated his zeal to fever heat, and a flue expanse of tilled land ...

    Article : 1,036 words
  11. TWENTY YEARS AGO.

    Twenty years ago Sunday was not a day to be taken lightly, a day of tennis and golf and other sporting frivolities. Twenty years ago Sunday was Sunday. ...

    Article : 587 words
  12. "WHY EDITORS REGRET."

    A small booklet with the above title came recently before my notice, and I found it interesting to read because of the elementary hints and tips it ...

    Article : 546 words
  13. MISSIONARIES IN INDIA.

    Sir,—Your issue of June 28 contains an article headed "India: Why We Must Remain There." The author is Mr. J. Ashly-Truman. This article contains the ...

    Article : 463 words
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    Charles Elton, who was at one time M.P. for West Somerset, was a great archaeologist: "He used to be consulted as a virtuoso by all sorts of people, ...

    Article : 196 words
  15. WHY DO WE SAY IT?

    When that rapacious and much-married monarch, Henry VIII, had defied Rome and set himself up as head of the English Church, he cast an envious eye—both ...

    Article : 189 words
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    A Babu gem merchant in Ceylon sent a London newspaper a "small ad.," with the request that it should be inserted "weekly, fortnightly or monthly for six ...

    Article : 173 words
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    Last year Harraps, publishers, London, and the proprietors of the "Atlantic Monthly" (Boston, U.S.A.), jointly conducted a novel competition, and received ...

    Article : 54 words
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    At one time there was a proposal to pave the space in front of the west door of Exeter Cathedral with wood blocks. Bishop Philpott, at a meeting called to ...

    Article : 53 words
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