Cirrus@Austlit

Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed.

Other material in this issue includes:

• First Page Picture: 'The Return of Persephone' from painting by Sir Frederic Leighton (1830-1896), President of the Royal Academy, London, 97.
• Biography: 'An Australian Girl's Endurance' (unattributed) account of Emily Lacy's survival of the sinking of the Quetta near Cape York on 28 February 1890, with photograph: 'The "Quetta" Memorial Church, Thursday Island', 99-100.
• Fiction: 'Mr. Pickwick Slides' extract from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens (1812-1870) illustration by "Phiz" (H. K. Browne) 107-109.
• Poetry: 'Be Kind' anonymous, 98-99; 'The Stolen Child' by Irish poet W. B. Yeats, with drawings: 'The Waters and the Wild' and 'A Fairy', 100-101; 'A Thunder Shower' by American poet James Whitcomb Riley (1849-1916) with illustration: 'The Shower Begins', 104-105; 'A Child's Laughter' by English poet Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) 110.
• Drama: 'A Queer School' abridged from Alice In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) 105-106.
• Prose: 'Persephone' (unattributed legend) 98; 'Ulysses and Polyphemus' abridged from Homer, with drawing: 'Ulysses Pouring Out the Wine for Polyphemus' from Flaxman's Classical Outline, 102-104; 'The Two Buckets' (unattributed fable) 109-110.
• Song: 'The Bay of Biscay' an old sea song by Andrew Cherry, music by John Davey (1765-1824).