Cirrus@Austlit

Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed.

Other material in this issue includes:

• First Page Picture: 'Daughter and Grey Mother: London Viewed from the Thames and Melbourne from the Yarra' two images, London placed above Melbourne, 49.
• Fiction: 'The Pin and the Needle' (unattributed) 61-62.
• Poetry: 'The Vagabond' by Scottish poet Robert Louis Stevenson (q.v.), portrait: 'R. L. S.', 55; 'Little Sorrow' from A Treasury of Verse by poet Marian Douglas, 57; 'The Plowman' by American poet Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) 59; 'The Music of the Sea' by poet Thomas Hood (1799-1845) 62; 'Peace on earth' four line poem by 'C. W. J.', 64.
• Drama: 'David Visits His Aunt' adapted from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (1812-1870) illustration: '"Eh?"', 55-57.
• Prose: 'Round the Empire' unattributed description of hypothetical journey around the world visiting countries of the Commonwealth, beginning with Australia, with map of the world and photograph: 'The Latest Recruit: A New Guinea Boy Shooting Fish', 50-52; 'The Wonderful Drum' (unattributed legend) illustration: 'An Eastern King on His Throne', 53-54; 'Androcles and the Lion' (unattributed legend), illustration: 'Awaiting His Fate', 58-59; 'Death of an Old Man' extract from Aesop's Fables edited by W. H. D. Rouse, 62.
• Song: 'Home Sweet Home' by American actor John Howard Payne, 62-64.