Cirrus@Austlit

Epigraph: '... No levelled malice/Infects one comma in the course I hold;/But flies an eagle flight, bold, and forth on,/Leaving no tract behind.' - Troilus and Cressida

Author's note: Acknowledgment. Much of the substance of this book is here presented for the first time; much is reprinted from newspapers and journals. Acknowledgments are respectfully offered to the Editors of The Bulletin, Art in Australia, Stream and The Studio for permission to reprint contributions, or portions of contributions, to those journals. // My courteseis are duly offered also to The Australian Broadcasting Comission in respect of the printing from the script of two talks from a series given by the author under the pseudonnym 'The Bystander'.