Cirrus@Austlit

Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed.

Other material in this issue includes:

• First Page Picture: 'Take It To the Hills' from Brady's Australia Unlimited, 17.
• Fiction: 'The Animals' Doctor' from The Story of Doctor Dolittle by English author Hugh Lofting (1886-1947) 19-21.
• Poetry: 'Never Give In' (unattributed) 19; 'Rain Music' by American poet Joseph Seaman Cotter (1995-1919) 21; 'The Four-Leaved Shamrock' by Irish poet Samuel Lover (1797-1868), unattributed illustration above last four lines of Thomas Moore's 'Oh, The Shamrock', 23-24; 'The Fishermen' by American poet John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) 27; 'Riddle-Me-Ree' (unattributed rhyme about the beauty of an egg) 29; 'Three Wise Monkeys' Eighth Century Japanese rhyme, with photograph: 'The Wise Ones' lent by Leon Crawcour of Melbourne, 32.
• Drama: 'The Lost Children' extract from 'The Pied Piper' in New Plays from Old Stories by Herman Ould, illustration: 'The Pied Piper' 22-23.
• Prose: 'Echo' (unattributed extract of legend) illustration from The School Journal, New Zealand: 'Echo Saw a Handsome Boy' 18-19; 'Proverbs' (five unattributed proverbs) 27; 'Conundrums' (unattributed) 30.
• Science: 'Some Effects of Alcohol' (unattributed) 30.
• Song: 'Mary in the Meadow' (unattributed folk song) 31-32.