who make the best of life in London, and explain how they do it. There are sections for country houses and cottages, gardens, poultry, bees, rabbits, in fact every country activity that it is possible to think of—for whenever a countryman has anything of interest to impart he seems to write to his magazine namesake about it. most of these writers are with the physical aspects of their country. In many a word picture the land can be seen as it really is. And one of them, Frank Dalby Davison, has a magical touch with animals. Extracts are given from "The Wells of Beersheba," the story of the taking of the Wells by the Australian Light Horse under Sir Harry Chauvel. The book begins with a roll call of the horses, "They are all Australian born—bone of her bone":
Victory is by endurance; and through the hard-won advance' across Sinais dry and wrinkled waste, the burden of it is laid upon these. The fight was from bir to bir—from water to water. Did racial tradition live again in that? They drank from grt prope nud where he lay em: desert springs and were ridden out to battled before the water farther on. They drank again when he had been routed from his stronghold. Failing, they were ridden back when hei tortured Those Spacious Days more. bodies could endure no
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