Cirrus@Austlit

Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed.

Other material in this issue includes:

• First Page Picture: 'Mona Lisa' by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci (q.v.) [17].
• Poetry: 'Carrowmore' by Irish poet George Willaim Russell (1867-1935), with illus. 'Ireland', 18; 'There Was an Indian' by English poet and editor of the London Mercury, J.C. Squire (1884-1958), with illus. 'The Three Ships of Columbus', 21-22; 'Dream-Pedlary' by English poet Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849), 24; 'The Vision of Belshazzar' by English poet Lord Byron (q.v.), 31.
• Fiction: 'The "Agra" in a Storm', an extract from Hard Cash by English writer Charles Reade (q.v.), with illus. 'A Storm at Sea' from Nelson's The Sea and Its Wonders, 19-21; 'Encounter with an Octopus', an extract from the Toilers of the Sea by Victor Hugo (q.v.), with illus. 'Victor Hugo as a Young Man', 29-30.
• Drama: 'Ivanhoe', an extract, by Sir Walter Scott (q.v.), with illus. 'A Norman Castle', 24-26.
• Prose: 'War' by American preacher, Dr. William Ellery Channing (1780-1842), 28.
• Science: 'Alcohol and the Body' (Part II), with illus. 'A Normal and a Fatty Heart', adapted from The New Zealand School Journal, 22-24; 'On Speech' by American writer Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes (q.v.), 26.
• Aphorisms: 'A Wish' (unattributed) 31; 'Success' (unattributed) 31.
• Song: 'Hedge Roses', music by Franz Schubert (q.v.), words by Goethe, 32.