Cirrus@Austlit

Only literary material by Australian authors or with Australian content individually indexed.

Other material in this issue includes:

• First Page Picture: 'Long, long thoughts' from a painting by French artist, Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725-1805), [1].
• Fiction: 'The Cat and the Mouse' (unattributed), a German folktale, illus. 3-5; 'The Fisherman and His Wife', (unattributed) from the Canadian Second Reader, illus., 10-12.
• Poetry: 'The Foolish Cat' by English children's writer, Christian Gibson Temple, orig. published in The Sphere, London, 1928 (Christmas issue), illus., 2; 'One Step at a Time' by British lyricist, [Archibald Thomas] Pechey (1876-1961), 5; 'Round the World and Back Again', by French poet Paul Fort, from Ballades Francaises, trans. from French, illus., 6; 'The Early Morning' by Hilaire Belloc, 12; 'Green Grasshopper' (unattributed), 14; 'To January' (unattributed) 15.
• Prose: 'At the Sea-Side' (unattributed) 12-13; 'January/February' (unattributed), with illus. of Captain Arthur Phillip and Sydney Cove 1788, 14-15.
• Educational Activities: 'Can You Print?', a writing exercise, (unattributed) 9; 'A Riddle for the New Year' (unattributed), 10; 'How to Draw a Duck' (unattributed), 10.
• Song: 'Voice Exercises No. 1' (unattributed), 16.

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.