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PROJECT GUTENBERG AUSTRALIA

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MONTHLY NEWSLETTER - March 2008 [includes details of ebooks placed
online during February 2008]

Dear Subscriber,

Copyright laws are changing all over the world. Be sure to check the
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mentioned in this newsletter.

CONTENTS:

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* News and Reviews

* Last month's postings

* Other Information (including details of how to unsubscribe

NEWS AND REVIEWS

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CHINESE NEW YEAR - THE YEAR OF THE RAT

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This month one of our volunteers sent along three ebooks by Herbert A
Giles, a past Professor of Chinese in the University of Cambridge. The
titles are listed below in our February posting list.

I didn't know what to expect as I prepared the ebooks for posting,
but for a self-confessed quotation-freak, here was a banquet, a
feast, a veritable groaning board. All of the works are filled with
beautiful passages, as one might expect from Chinese writing.

Since the Chinese have only recently celebrated the start of a new
year, the Year of the Rat, I will show admirable discipline by
confining my quotations to that subject. Hence:--

* Don't break a vase for a shy at a rat.

* It takes a rat to know a rat.

That wasn't so bad, was it. Only 2 references to rats. There was one
other little parable in 'Gems of Chinese Literature: Prose' titled 'A
Rat's Cunning.' You will have to find that one yourself.

John Bickers prepared these three ebooks. If you have ever had a go
at making one, you will appreciate his effort. My eye was caught by
another quote in one of the texts, "One man makes a road and another
walks on it." John has made the road, why not walk on it and pick up
some of the gems with which it is studded.

MAKING THE MOST OF EBOOKS

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In writing his book "Australia's Pioneers, Heroes and Fools" Peter
Macinnis acknowledged that "most of all, though, I owe a debt of
gratitude to the people at Project Gutenberg Australia. These lovely
people have scanned and proofed most of the journals of the
explorers, and that was my starting point for a database. I added
text from other sources, but my major source was Project Gutenberg
Australia."
(http://members.ozemail.com.au/[email protected]/writing/pioneers2.htm
) The Australian Explorers Journals are at
http://gutenberg.net.au/explorers-journals.html

Sometimes volunteers must wonder whether the work they do will find
an audience or whether the books will just sit there as digital code
taking up space on a computer hard disk somewhere. It is nice to see
good use is being made of the work of our volunteers.

Quotable Quotes

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(From Doctor Widger's Library
(http://www.gutenberg.net.au/widger/home.html
)

The following are from The Essays of Montaigne, Volume 2, by Michel
de Montaigne

(http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/3/5/8/3582/3582.txt
)

* * * * *

It should seem that the nature of wit is to have its operation prompt
and

sudden, and that of judgment to have it more deliberate and more
slow.

* * *

But, above all, old men who retain the memory of things past,

and forget how often they have told them, are dangerous company; and
I

have known stories from the mouth of a man of very great quality,

otherwise very pleasant in themselves, become very wearisome by being

repeated a hundred times over and over again to the same people.

* * *

I was by no means pleased with a story, told me by a man of very
great

quality of a relation of mine, and one who had given a very good
account

of himself both in peace and war, that, coming to die in a very old
age,

of excessive pain of the stone, he spent the last hours of his life
in an

extraordinary solicitude about ordering the honour and ceremony of
his

funeral, pressing all the men of condition who came to see him to
engage

their word to attend him to his grave: importuning this very prince,
who

came to visit him at his last gasp, with a most earnest supplication
that

he would order his family to be there, and presenting before him
several

reasons and examples to prove that it was a respect due to a man of
his

condition; and seemed to die content, having obtained this promise,
and

appointed the method and order of his funeral parade. I have seldom

heard of so persistent a vanity.

* * * * *

Australian Poetry

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A NEW GIRL UP AT WHITE'S

There's a fresh track down the paddock

  Through the lightwoods to the creek,

And I notice Billy Craddock

  And Maloney do not speak,

And The Snag is slyly bitter

  When he's criticising Bill,

And there's quite a foreign glitter

  On the fellows at the mill.

Sid M'Mahon's turned out a dandy

  With a masher coat and tie,

And the engine-driver, Sandy,

  Curls his whiskers on the sly:

All the boys wear paper collars

  And their tombstone shirts of nights,

So it's ten to one in dollars

  There's a new girl up at White's.

She's a charmer from the river,

  But she steeps the lads in gloom,

With her blue eyes all a-quiver

  And her hair like wattle-bloom;

Though she's pretty and beguiling,

  And so lit up, like, with fun

That the flowers turn to her smiling,

  Just as if she was the sun.

But I wish she'd leave the valley,

  For the camp is dull to me,

Now the mill hands never rally

  For the regulation spree,

And there's not another joker

  Gives a tinker's curse for nap.,

Or will take a hand at poker

  Or at euchre with a chap!

Tom won't stir us with his fiddle

  By the boilers as he did

While Bob stepped it in the middle,

  And we passed the billy-lid.

Ah! we had some gay old nights there,

  But the boys now don't agree,

And they hang about at White's there,

  When they've togged up after tea.

With the gloves we have no battle;

  Now they sneak away and moon

Round with White, discussing cattle

  All the Sunday afternoon.

There's a want of old uprightness,

  Too, has come upon the push,

And a sort of cold politeness

  That's not called for in the bush.

They're all off, too, in that quarter;

  Kate goes sev'ral times a week

Seeing Andy Kelly's daughter,

  Jimmy's sister, up the creek;

And this difference seems a pity,

  Since their chances are so slim--

While they are running after Kitty,

  She is running after Jim.

>From Rhymes from the Mines by Edward Dyson
(http://gutenberg.net.au/plusfifty-a-m.html#dyson
)

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LAST MONTH'S POSTINGS

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A list of all the books we provide is available from
http://gutenberg.net.au/plusfifty.html
.

Check there to see if there are other works by the authors listed
below.

-- FEBRUARY POSTINGS --

Feb 2008 The Forger, Edgar Wallace [080020xx.xxx] 1602A

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks08/0800201.txt
  or .zip

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks08/0800201h.html

Feb 2008 The Loyal Karens of Burma,Donald Mackenzie
Smeaton[080019xx.xxx] 1601A

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks08/0800191.txt
  or .zip

Feb 2008 The Viper of Milan, Marjorie Bowen [080018xx.xxx] 1600A

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks08/0800181.txt
  or .zip

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks08/0800181h.html

Feb 2008 Gems of Chinese Literature: Verse, Herbert A
Giles[080017xx.xxx] 1599A

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks08/0800171.txt
  or .zip

Feb 2008 Gems of Chinese Literature: Prose, Herbert A
Giles[080016xx.xxx] 1598A

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks08/0800161.txt
  or .zip

Feb 2008 A History of Chinese Literature, Herbert A Giles
[080015xx.xxx] 1597A

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks08/0800151.txt
  or .zip

Feb 2008 The Man at the Carlton, Edgar Wallace [080014xx.xxx] 1596A

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks08/0800141.txt
  or .zip

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks08/0800141h.html

Feb 2008 Man Abroad, Anonymous [080013xx.xxx] 1595A

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks08/0800131.txt
  or .zip

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks08/0800131h.html

Feb 2008 The Crystal Button, Chauncey Thomas [080012xx.xxx] 1594A

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks08/0800121.txt
  or .zip

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks08/0800121h.html

Feb 2008 A History of Ireland and Her People, Eleanor Hull
[080011xx.xxx] 1593A

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks08/0800111h.html

Feb 2008 Planetoid 127, Edgar Wallace [080010xx.xxx] 1592A

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks08/0800101.txt
  or .zip

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks08/0800101h.html

Feb 2008 The Carolinian, Rafael Sabatini [080009xx.xxx] 1591A

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks08/0800091.txt
  or .zip

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks08/0800091.html

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