Cirrus@Austlit

Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed.

Other material in this issue includes:

• First Page Picture: '"Hark, the Lark!" - Three Little Bird-Lovers', from a statue by Alice Norden, pictured in My Magazine, [129].
• Poetry: 'Bird Songs', two poems (indexed below): 'The Fly-Eaters' Race' and 'What the Birds Sang' [129]-130; 'The Swallows' (unattributed), illus., 138; 'Elizabeth in the Rain', altered from version in Punch, London.
• Drama: 'The Lost Child', from 'The Goody-Witch' in Four Plays for Children by English writer, Ethel Sidgwick, illus. 'In the Bush', 134-135.
• Fiction: 'Cockatoo Stories' (unattributed), illus., 136-138; 'The Yellow Tulip' (unattributed), illus. from Cassell's Book of Knowledge, 139-141; 'A Gentleman' (unattributed) 142-143; 'The Golden Goose' [Part I] (unattributed), 143-144.
• Science/History: 'October' (unattributed), illus., 130-132.
• Aphorisms: 'Don't Worry' (unattributed) 141.
• Song: 'The Cuckoo' by Italian operatic composer, Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, 144.

Preceding or following each piece is a short glossary of the longer words contained therein, as well as notes about people and places mentioned, and comments on the metre of poetry. There are also often 'General Notes' which ask the reader questions about the work.