The Prime Minister of Australia, William Morris Hughes, a small-minded, insensitive, violent man, directed a furious campaign in favour of a huge indemnity.

If we look next to Australia, we find a country of more than two-thirds the area of the United States, with a temperate climate and immense resources, agricultural and mineral,a country sparsely peopled by a race of irredeemable savages hardly above the level of brutes.

In Australia the city of Melbourne was founded in 1837, the year when the present queen of England began to reign, and the state of which it is the capital was hence called Victoria.

Now a century hence, with a population of six hundred millions in the United States, and a hundred and fifty millions in Australia and New Zealand, to say nothing of the increase of power in other parts of the English-speaking world, the relative weights will be very different from what they were in 1788.

THE REVOLT IN HUNGARY, Arminius Vembery (1848) THE DISCOVERY OF GOLD IN CALIFORNIA, John S. Hittell (1849) THE RISE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN REPUBLIC, Jessie White Mario (1849) LIVINGSTONE'S AFRICAN DISCOVERIES, David Livingstone and Thomas Hughes (1851) THE COUP D'ETAT OF LOUIS NAPOLEON, Alexis de Tocqueville (1851) THE DISCOVERY OF GOLD IN AUSTRALIA, Edward Jenks (1854)

In that same year gold was discovered in Australia, and English adventurers flocked thither.

[Footnote: See Discovery of Gold in Australia.] Even the extremest East was brought in contact with the West.

Measured back from infinity it may be infinitesimal, but measured forward from zero, the difference of mental and, partly, of moral culture between ourselves and the aborigines of Australia is considerable, and is really to our advantage.

O'Farrell, who in 1868 attempted the life of the Duke of Edinburgh in Australia, was a Jesuit sent out to the care of the society in Australia.

O'Farrell, who in 1868 attempted the life of the Duke of Edinburgh in Australia, was a Jesuit sent out to the care of the society in Australia.

If it was Canada, Australia or South Africa that had to be placated, Mr. Lloyd George would not have dared to ignore them.

'He is in Australia, and is well.

"I went to Australia, Ida," he said in a low voice, every note of which was pitched to love's harmony: it soothed while it rejoiced her.

After a sleepless night, worse even than some of the worst he had spent in Australia, and after a pretence at breakfast, he went slowly up to the Villa.

He had given her, mostly in answer to her eager questions, a very abbreviated account of his life in Australia; telling her less even than he had told Ida; and it is needless to remark, saying nothing of the cause of his hasty return.

Then, again, how was it he and Miss Heron were in at Maude Falconer's death; and why did he bolt off to Australia again directly after the funeral?

"Almost as hot as in Australia," he said, languidly, but watching her out of the tail of his eye.

"Have youerwalked from Australia, or flown?" Stafford stared.

"If I'd been in love with such a peerless creature, I shouldn't have left her to go tramping after cattle in Australia.

that is our shepherd in Australia; isn't he funny?

I would go to Australia, and be a gentle shepherd on an imposing scale.

"Arrived in Australia, I at once made myself the proprietor of a considerable farm, and stocked it abundantly with sheep.

The same enterprise and energy which in modern days made England the first manufacturing country of the world was then, in fact, fast pressing her forward to the place which Australia now holds towards modern Europe,the great wool-growing country, the centre from whence the raw material for commerce was supplied.

He had been in foreign countries; he had herded sheep in Australia (so he said), and certainly from his knowledge of the country he had wandered with the gamboleros of South America; he had gone for gold to Alaska, and worked in the lumber camps of the Pacific Northwest.

Love letter (by V-mail from Australia) (In The New Yorker, June 12, 1943)