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  2. OLD JOURNALISTIC DAYS.

    Remembering the wonderful popularity of English opera in my reporting days, and the elevating influence it exercised on the community, particularly on young ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  3. SERIAL STORY.

    Hendrich's teeth were clenched in anger. That Bulow should have failed him was a distinct blow to his personal pride. And the new development was, he thought, ...

    Article : 2,068 words
  4. WOMAN PROPOSES.

    Each "leap year" the unattached male of marriageable age is haunted by visions of ardent spinsters lying in wait to propose to him. Even when the twenty-ninth of ...

    Article : 836 words
  5. "BY THE WORLD FORGOT."

    "What is the place of the aboriginal among the world's races or peoples, past or present?" asked Dr. Ramsay Smith in his arresting article which appeared in ...

    Article : 1,480 words
  6. A MIRROR OF 1830.

    The editor was puzzling over a scrap of paper. "What's' this?" he asked. Thomson., host of the Stirling Hotel, held it at arm's length, brought it to ...

    Article : 1,500 words
  7. AUSTRALIANA.

    On February 3. 1861, at Paradise, a small village not far from Newcastle-on-Tyne, was born George Swinburne, later destined to play a prominent part in ...

    Article : 985 words
  8. MUSIC AND THE THEATRE.

    Mr. Norbert Coomer, the young West Australian violinist who came into prominence last year, when he accompanied Mr. Peter Dawson as assisting artist in a ...

    Article : 830 words
  9. SCIENCE AND INVENTION.

    If asked to name the two dominant forms of life on this earth next to man, one would unhesitatingly place the insects, using the term in its wider but incorrect ...

    Article : 1,020 words
  10. WHAT IS LITERATURE ?

    the year 1294 A.D., & certain story teller who had gained renown in his own province interviewed the Grand Vizier to the Emperor Kublai-Kahn At this time ...

    Article : 691 words
  11. New Records.

    Much interest has been aroused among the connoisseurs of singing by the meteoric rise of the young French soprano, Lily Pons, whose first gramophone record ...

    Article : 715 words
  12. SEX EQUALITY IN RUSSIA.

    When women talk of sex equality, women's rights and equal citizenship, I wonder how many of them pause to think what this state of things can mean, if ...

    Article : 619 words
  13. A SEASIDE INTERLUDE.

    A languorous dusk enfolds the sands. The moon peeps slyly from the hills, discreetly veiled, and romance gently drifts upon its beams. Across the sea fitful ...

    Article : 355 words
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    Writing about the Derby of 1879 in his recently published book. "The Classic Races of the Turf," Mr. Guy Logan says that the Poet Laureate, Lord Tennyson. ...

    Article : 194 words
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    Mr. William Boosey, the famous music publisher, has sometimes found his surname a slight source of embarrassment. In his book, "Fifty Years of Music." he ...

    Article : 156 words
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    Writing of Swinburne's fondness for swimming, Sir Edmund Gosse says: "I happened to tell the extraordinary old R. H. Horne—'Orion' Horne—of Swinburne's ...

    Article : 93 words
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