Cirrus@Austlit

Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed.

Other material in this issue includes:

• First Page Picture: 'Puck', from an engraving by Edinburgh artist William Lizars (1788-1859) based on a painting by English artist Richard Dadd (1817-1886), reproduced from Charles Knight's The Works of Shakespeare (1873), [1].
• Fiction: 'The Vain Frog' (unattributed) illus., 39-40; 'When the World was Breaking Up', from children's magazine St. Nicholas, illus., 43-45.
• Poetry: 'Good-Bye!', extract from poem by 'Touchstone' printed in London's Daily Mail, 38-39; 'Sleeping and Waking' by English writer, E. Nesbit, 40; 'Nancy' by English poet, Rose Fyleman, 45; 'The Song of the Leaves' by English songwriter F. E. Weatherly (q.v.) 46; 'Sunset' from Richard III by William Shakespeare (q.v.), 48.
• Drama: 'A Royal Quarrel', extract from A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare (q.v.), with illus. from Charles Knight's Pictorial Shakespeare, 35-36.
• Prose: 'Puck, the Tricksy Sprite' (unattributed), with illus. from Sir John Gilbert's Shakespeare, [1]-2; 'April' (unattributed) illus., 41-42; 'Bill the Possum' (unattributed) illus., 46-47.
• History: 'Anzac Day' (unattributed) with illus. of Simpson and donkey, 37-38.
• Song: 'Come, Honest Friends' by English composer Simon Ives (1600-1662), 48.