Cirrus@Austlit

Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed.

Other material in this issue includes:

• First Page Picture: 'Books for the Holidays : Happy Girls Leaving the Williamstown Children's Library, Victoria' [1].
• Poetry: 'Books' (author unknown) 2; 'The Burial of a Queen', extract from 'A Dirge' by English poet, Alfred Noyes (q.v.), with illus. of 'Mary, Queen of Scots', 6-7; 'The Crowning of Dreaming John' by English poet, John Drinkwater (q.v.), illus. 'Beauty is the Poet's Theme', a view of women in a rose pergola in the 'National Park, near Sydney', 9-11; 'Bright is the Ring of Words' by Scottish poet, Robert Louis Stevenson (q.v.), 14; 'Lyonnesse' by English writer Thomas Hardy (q.v.), 16.
• Fiction: 'A Little Mermaid' (extract) by Hans Christian Andersen (q.v.), 11.
• Drama: 'Adversity', an extract from As You Like It by William Shakespeare (q.v.), 12-13.
• Cultural Studies: 'The Consuls Again', information by readers (including Consular representatives) about Christmas and other cultural festivals in Japan, Belgium, the Czecho-Slovak Republic, Peru, with illustrations 'At the Boys' Festival, Japan', 'The Belfry of Bruges, Belgium', 'Boys on Skis, Czecho-Slovakia' and 'Street in Lima, Peru', 2-6.
• Natural History: 'Bush and Grass Fires' (unattributed), with illus. 'Save Our Forests From Fire', a poster issued by the Forests Commission, Victoria, 8-9.
• Science: 'Alcohol and the Body' (Part I) (unattributed), with illus. 'Blood Corpuscles' from The New Zealand School Journal, 14-15.