Cirrus@Austlit

Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed.

Other material in this issue includes:

• First Page Picture: 'Bath-Time' by L. Knaus, from the Junior Red Cross magazine published in Czechoslovakia, [65].
• Poetry: 'Fairy Folk' by Robert M. Bird, from A Treasury of Verse (Harrap), with illustration 'How Sweet They Sleep', 67-68; 'Soft Steps' by Georgette Agnew, 69; 'Underneath the Clothes' by English writer Madeleine Nightingale, 71; 'A Wish' by American poet Frank Dempster Sherman (q.v.), with illustration of a boy with a kite, 74.
• Fiction: 'The Blind Man and the Lame Man' (unattributed) with an illustration of an Alphabet for the Blind, 66-67; 'Margery, Nip and the Pine Tree' (unattributed) with photographs: 'The Cones and Needles of a Pine-Tree' and 'Pine-trees in the Reserved Forest, You Yangs between Melbourne and Geelong', provided by the Victorian Forests Commission, 71-74; 'The Three Golden Hairs' (continued) from one of Grimm's (q.v.) Fairy Tales, illustrated with a drawing of ants, 77-79.
• Drama: 'How the Robin Got its Red Breast' (unattributed), illustrated with a picture of Flame-Breasted Robins, 70.
• Natural History: 'Trees' (unattributed), with illustration of a cross section of the trunk of a tree, 68-69; 'What Trees and Plants Give Us' (unattributed) 75.
• Song: 'Arbor-Day Anthem' by S.P. Smith, with illustration 'Autumn in the Fitzroy Gardens, Melbourne' from a painting by the late J. Mather, a Melbourne artist, 76; 'Hark! 'Tis the Sound of the Bell' (unattributed) 80.
• Riddles: 'Riddle-Me-Ree' (unattributed) 75.

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.