25 JULY 1925, page 12

A Homeric Defence

[The writer of the reminiscence below was moved to send it to us by reading the true story, called " Does my Sister live here still ? : an Echo of the '45," published in the......

Some Australian Birds.—ii

T HE laughing-jackass, though less frequently seen than of yore, is distributed over the greater part of Australia. His squat, dumpy figure is now familiar to most people in the......