A CENTENARY RECORD.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 52, 27 December 1900, Page 6

A CENTENARY RECORD.

An interesting and decidedly clever brochure has been published in connection with the recent centenary celebrations at the S. H. Convent, Timaru. It is entitled Our J<irxt Centenary, and its title-page informs us that it waß ' published for the amusement of the Timaru children of the Saored Heart.' The second edition of this interesting and original school publication is before us. It makes decidedly good reading. It opens with a thoughtful and well-written article on ' Our Centenary.' Other solid pabulum for the budding intellect is supplied by an article bearing the suggestive heading, ' The Fool of the House ' ; an amusing story-skic on arithmetic, which reminds us of the famous chapter on snakes in Ireland; a series of ' Btray Leaves frdm Our Skeion Book ' ; ' Latest Biographies,' etc. The Centennial Debating Club supplies, in conversational form, an exceedingly clever and amusing discussion on' Vertebrates r. Invertebrates,' and another in French, on ' Intellect and Will ' — the latter quite an achievement in philosophical discussion. Local school news chiefly accounts of the centenary celebrations, and original poetry by the children occupy a goodly portion of the publication. It concludes with some quaint and witty ' advertisements '—chiefly ' wanteds,' and a few piges of school-child answers, which are decidedly amusing. We learn, for instance, from some of the little folk that 'in Thibet corn grows to the height of 18,000 feet' ; that the kingdom of the Queen of Sheba was ' on the West Coast' ; that ' Sarah prepared tea for the angels and made them some soones ' ; and other interesting facts that are not generally known. Our Firtt Centenary ii very daintily got up, and ia quite a novelty in school publications. ,