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REVIEW OF REVIEWS. 



December 1, 1913. 



Australian products, compiled by the 

 geog-raphers together with those of 

 Argentine, Arabia, and other confusing" 

 countries. They've gone down the 

 ■mines, and know that the country turns 

 out marvellous quantities of gold, silver, 

 copper, lead, tin, and coal. They've 

 learned of the sheep industry at the 

 shearing sheds, and the freezing plants ; 

 they've watched the shipment of wheat ; 

 enthusiastically visited fruit orchards ; 

 tested the railroad accommodations ; 

 criticised tram lines, harbours, water 

 systems, and, in general, acquired a 

 stock of knowledge that will help them 

 understand things at home. They've 

 seen this country in its incomplete, grow- 

 ing stage, when its notions are more 

 easily understood, and it's given them a 

 remarkable insight into what the United 

 States has already gone through. 



Then, of course, they've promoted in 

 no small degree a feeling of real re- 

 lationship between themselves and the 

 Australians they've met. Everywhere 

 the boys have gone they have been en- 

 tertained in private homes, and have 



become ex officio sons of forty or more 

 Australian families. 



Inspired by the example of the party 

 visiting here four years ago. West Aus- 

 tralian boys, led by Lieutenant J. J. 

 Simons, of Perth, took a trip to America, 

 and on around the globe two years 

 back. Now another party is preparing 

 in that State to reciprocate this recent 

 visit, and another is forming in South 

 Australia. The boys of the two nations 

 seem destined to know considerably 

 more of one another and of one an- 

 other's countries as time goes on. 



Australia can rest assured that, with 

 the exception of the sailors of the 

 American Fleet, so hospitably treated 

 here, she has no better promoters than 

 these boys. Her lads created no little 

 stir in America when they visited it 

 two years ago, and the boys of the pre- 

 sent American party, full of gratitude 

 for the m)Tiad kindnesses that have been 

 bestowed on them here, will make better 

 advertising agents than any the coun- 

 try has sent out — possibly excepting Sir 

 George Reid. 



THOMAS A. EDISON LISTENING TO THE AMERICAN BOYS' BAND. 



