Cirrus@Austlit

Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed.

Other material in this issue includes:

• First Page Picture: 'A Boy and His Dog', from a painting by Philip A. Laszlo in English author Arthur Mee's My Magazine, [17].
• Fiction: 'Brier Rose' with illus. from The Fairy Book by Mrs Craik-Muloch, 25-27; 'Crusoe and His Pets' from Robinson Crusoe in Words of One Syllable by Edith Robarts, illus., 28-29.
• Poetry: 'My Dog and I' by Susan Jewett, [17]-18; 'A Riddle', 19; 'Queen Mab's Song', 20; 'Wynken, Blynken, and Nod' by American poet Eugene Field (1851-1896) with illus. by American Mabel Betsy Hill, 24-25; 'The Sleeping Beauty' by English Poet Alfred Tennyson (q.v.) with illus. 'An Australian Fairy' from drawing by Australian artist Ida Rentoul Outhwaite (q.v.), 28; 'Sweet and Low: A Lullaby' by Alfred Tennyson (q.v.), with illustration from a painting by Mr. J. G. White, 30; 'A Seaside Song' (unattributed) 32.
• Drama: 'The Gifts of Jack Frost', based on a Russian fairy tale, with illus. from Whitcombe and Tombs' Tales of the Fairies, 20-23.
• Prose: 'The Month of March', with photograph 'Australian Vineyards' from The Picturesque Atlas of Australasia and illus. 'The Grape-harvest in Italy' from Cassell's Book of Knowledge, 18-19; 'The Man and the Fish', illus., (unattributed) 23.
• Proverbs: 'Set a stout heart to a steep hill...', a Scottish proverb.