Excerpt from Sing a Song of Sydney: A Novel IN spite of its lack of architectural beauty the big, Old-fashioned stone house had a certain dignity. Obviously in early days its grounds had occupied the entire acreage of the point. Now it was jostled by newly erected blocks of flats, and the garden was reduced to little more than the actual site upon which the dwelling stood. But no building could shut out the magnificent panorama upon which looked the windows and wide verandahs of the old house. From the balcony one had an almost uninterrupted view up the harbour to the suspended arch of the bridge; saw across the water all the massed towers of the city against the sky; the pseudo-tudor turrets of Govern ment House amongst its trees and lawns; the slopes Of the Botanical Gardens running down to the sea-wall; and beyond the jutting promontory of the Domain, the wharves and shipping of Woolloomooloo with the Naval Base at Garden Island off-shore. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.