Cirrus@Austlit

Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed.

Other material in this issue includes:

• First Page Picture: 'War and Peace' by English artist Sir Edwin Landseer (1802-1873) 146.
• Poetry: 'The New Patriot' by American poet Frederic Lawrence Knowles (1869-1905) 147; 'Life' by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (q.v), 147; 'The Victorious Dead' by English poet Alfred Noyes (q.v.), with drawing: 'Love and Death' from the painting by English artist G. F. Watts (1817-1904) 149; 'The Seed Shop' by Muriel Stuart with illustration: 'Poppy Day, 9th November', 151; 'A Campeachy Picture' by English poet John Masefield (q.v.), 156; 'The Swimming Lesson' extract from poem by Lord Byron, 159; 'My Country' extract from 'Where the Mind is Without Fear' by Rabindranath Tagore (q.v.), 159.
• Drama: 'The Greatest Country' by Joseph B. Howie, with unattributed illustration, 152-153.
• Prose: 'The Brotherhood of Man' extract from tract by the Melbourne Peace Society with illustration: 'A Scene in Ancient Assyria', 146-147; 'The Helpful Friend' by English author Charles Kingsley, 147; 'The Armistice' extract from Days To Remember by John Buchan and Henry Newbolt (q.v.), with illustration: 'Before the Armistice' from the picture: 'Interrogation' by Francis Dodd in the Imperial War Museum, 148; 'Diver Hughes' account of rescue of Italian Coolgardie miner, Vareschetti, from Whitcombe and Tombs The Fourth Pacific Reader, with illustration: 'A Strange Figure Rises', 149-151; 'Making For Peace' short story about the League of Nations by Valentine Leeper of South Yarra,with illustration: 'The Friend Ship', 154-156; 'Helping the World' extract from The Wonderful League by Frederick J. Gould, with unattributed illustration above two lines from 'Charge of the Heavy Brigade at Balaclava', a poem by Lord Alfred Tennyson (q.v.), 157-158; 'Peace' extracts from six authors including Shakespeare, Milton, Tennyson (q.v.), Menander, Ruskin (q.v.) and Arago, 158; 'The Swimming Lesson' outline of benefits for Victorian children learning to swim, 159.
• Song: 'A Loftier Place' words by J. Addington Symonds, music by S. Stanley, 160.