Cirrus@Austlit

Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed.

Other material in this issue includes:

• First Page Picture: 'War and Peace' after the picture by Gabriel Ferrier, a French artist, born in 1847, [145]
• Poetry: 'Love's Patriot' by Ernest Crosby (q.v.) 146; 'Joy and Sorrow' by Robert Hamilton, 147; 'How to be Happy' by Harold Begbie, a modern English writer, 149-150; 'Hiawatha's Childhood' from Longfellow's Hiawatha, with illustration 'Hiawatha' from The Tale the Letters Tell. Hiawatha was a legendary Native American chieftain who taught useful arts to his people, 154-156; 'This Is the Way' (unattributed) 156; 'Foreign Children' (unattributed) 157; 'Night of Spring' by Thomas Westwood (1814-1888) an English poet, with illustration 'Diana (Dian) the Huntress', 158
• Fiction: 'The Wind and the Sun (The wind of war and the sun of peace)' from Aesop's Fables, with illustration 'Wind' from Mr. Wind and Madam Rain (Blackie), 150-151; 'The Tar Baby' by Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908), an American story-writer, illus., 151-153; 'The Frog That Would Not Give In' (unattributed) 157; 'The Rainbow Bridge' illus., from The Canadian Readers, Bk. II (Nelson) 159.
• Prose: 'When Peace Came' (unattributed) illus., 146-147.
• Instruction: 'How to Be Healthy' from notes supplied by the Health Association of Australasia (Victoria Branch) with illustrations 'Keep Clean' and 'Posture', 148-149; 'Song of All Children' (unattributed), illus., 151; 'Proverbs' (unattributed) 156.
• Notices: Spelling tests (Victoria); Price of The School Paper.
• Song: 'Peace and Goodwill' by Daniel Batchellor, 160.

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.