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Notes

Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed.
Other material in this issue includes:
- First Page Picture: 'Three Little Maids from School', reprod. photograph from The Sun News-Pictorial, Melbourne, with quotations from Richard the Third and The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare (q.v.), [33].
- Poetry: 'How Sleep the Brave' by English poet, William Collins (1721-1759), 34; 'The Fairy Folk' by Irish poet William Allingham (q.v.), 36-37; 'Where the Bee Sucks, There Suck I' (with title: 'Ariel's Song of Freedom') by William Shakespeare (q.v.), illus., 39; 'The Story of Cinderella' (unattributed), illus.,41-42; 'My Lady Wind' (herein unattributed) by American children's poet, Ada M. Skinner, 44-45, 'Simon Lazy' by John Lea, with illus. from Blackie's First Reader, 46-47.
- Fiction: 'Windows of Gold' (unattributed) 43-44; 'Union is Strength' by Aesop (q.v.), illus., 47.
- Prose: 'If Shakespeare Came' (unattributed), with illus. from The World Book, 37-39.
- History: 'Anzac Day', with illus. 'The Passing of War' by English painter Frank O. Salisbury (1874-1962), 34-36.
- Natural History: 'April' (unattributed), with illus. of plough in field from Life (N.Y.), 45-46.
- Drama: 'The Crows and the Fox' from Harrap's Dramatic Readers, Book III, 40.
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.