MELBA'S MELBOURNE HOME.
"COOMBE COTTAGE.'' A visitor to "Coombo Cottage," Mm 6, Mclba's Lillydalo residence, near Melbourne, writes to the "Herald" that &nyouo who has not been thero could not possibly realise tho beauty of tho diva's Australian homo. "But what most impresses (ho imagination," says tho writer, "is bow ii. all came about. It is liko a wonderful fairy story. There is in fall of us su'ticiont of the dreamer'to have cdnjuied'iip a ?nat personal''conquest of the world, ■ i-.nl then bring its rarest art treasures to that delightful mansion 'wo would Uuitd' on the delectable mountain near the spot whero we were born. Almost always yiio castle has remained in tho air.
"With Mrao. Melba it has ; been different. Her drcum has materialised. On a eitu commanding tho country over which,
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1307, 9 December 1911, Page 11
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