Cirrus@Austlit

Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed.

Other material in this issue includes:

• First Page Picture:'Young Shakespeare', an imaginary portrait: from the picture by James Sant R.A., [33].
• Poetry: 'Goodbye!' abridged and slightly adapted from a poem by 'Touchstone', in the Daily Mail, London, 36; 'Big Smith' by English story-writer and poet Juliana Horatia Ewing (1841-1885), with illustration: 'The Shop of Big Smith', 37-39; 'The Little House', from People in Socks, a collection of child poems by Mona Dundonald, 41; 'Horse and Sparrow' by Irish writer James Stephens, with illustration of sparrows, 43; 'Summer Evening' by Walter de la Mare (q.v.) 44.
• Fiction:'Spelling Lesson' (unattributed spelling lesson in story form) 44; 'The Three Golden Hairs' from one of Grimm's (q.v.) Fairy Tales (continued), with illustration and explanation of a water-mill, 45-46.
• Prose: 'Shakespeare' (unattributed biography) illus., 34-35; 'Riddles' (unattributed) 43; 'A Tongue-Twister' (unattributed) 46; 'Betty Botta' (unattributed tongue-twister) 47.
• Drama: 'Wolf! Wolf!' (unattributed) illus., 39-40.
• Natural History: 'The Raindrop' (unattributed), with illustration: 'The Cattle Stood on Plain and Hill', 41-42.
• Song: 'Cradle Song' by Schubert (q.v.) 48.

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.