Mr, C. D. Carus-Wilson describing his tame foxes admits that he, his wife and daughter, have all suffered for the pleasure of keeping them—"I bear a scar where the great tooth of my first fox tore the flesh of my little finger." But these bites and misunderstandings merely came from their owners' ignorance.
"As for hunting, you will be imterested to know that though I have been a keen follower of hounds, I have since my experience with tame foxes felt unable to hunt any more.
Mr, R, M. Lockley continues "In Search of an Island" with North Ronaldshay, and in the course of his article gives a pathetic description of the holocaust of migrating birds by letters are given—serious letters calculated to make a young man think—and one from a bank clerk turned cowman, ending:
Nevertheless, despite all tne of a poverty-stricken countryman, I would not live in London again for all the tea in China.
It would be impossible to read "The Countryman" and still maintain that country life must be dull. The variety of articles and information is astonishing—and the curious thing is that there is not a page that is tedious or anything less than attractive, There are even countrymen For im a falling world in which so much is doubtful, there are signs Of a renascencc—or should I say a in "art and letters in In the last few years, not the volume of Australian increased and its quality improved, but there is an increasing Will to foster it and ability to appreciate it.
-She holds that women have excelled in novel writing more than in any other art and that it looks as if Australia were going to follow in this tradition, for in the still limited list of Australian novelists at least two women have found their way into fürst rami ... The Australian novelist who has won the highest praise in Europe and America is, despite her hame, woman—Henry Handel Micnardson. And next to her I should like to place another woman, Katherine Susannah Prichard.
These two women she takes first in an analysis in which the sexes are numerically equally divided: Martin Mills, Leonard Mann, Vance Palmer, Frank Dalby Davison: Eleanor Dark, Christine Stead, and the two she selects for priority.
Men and Horses Quotation in the book is naturally generous—for by it Miss Barnard Eldershaw demonstrates her points—and it is noticeable how concerned
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