Cirrus@Austlit

Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed.

Other material in this issue includes:

• First Page Picture: 'An Empire Builder', from the bronze statue by Sir William Hamo Thornycroft, R.A. (1850-1925) [49].
• Poetry: 'Lines for Empire Day' by 'W', with an illustration 'The Cottage Door' drawn by J. D. Cooper and wood-engraved by R. Barnes, 50; 'A Night With a Wolf' by American traveller and author Bayard Taylor (1825-1878) with illustration 'The Wolf Pack', 52-53; 'The Cloppity Train' by Gertrude Vaughan, illus., 56; 'Wee Willie Winkie' by William Miller (1810-1872), 57-58; 'Night' by Longfellow (q.v.) 61; 'The Little Red Calf' by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, a living English poet, born in 1878, with illustration 'A Sad Parting', 62
• Fiction: 'The Field of Wheat' by Aesop (q.v.) with illustration 'The Wheat Field' courtesy of the Dept. of Agriculture, 56-57; 'The Three Golden Hairs' from one of Grimm's Fairy Tales (continued) 58-59; 'A New Game' adapted from Canadian Readers, Book II, with illustration 'The Flight of the Night', 61; 'The Grumpy Frog' (unattributed) 62.
• Prose: 'The Empire' (unattributed) with illustration 'Map of The World, on Mollweide's Projection', 50-51;
• Drama: 'The Three Wishes', a story from Grimm dramatized by J .R. L., 53-55.
• Song: 'Linden Lea', a Dorset folk song, 63-64
• Notices: Spelling Tests (Victoria) and Price of The School Paper, 55.

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.