Cirrus@Austlit

Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed.

Other material in this issue includes:

• First and Last Page Pictures: 'The Last Muster', a group of Chelsea Pensioners (from the hospital for superannuated British soldiers) depicted by Hubert Herkomer (1849-1914), accompanied by quote from Shakepeare's Cymbeline, [33]; 'Team-Work' (unattributed cartoon) 48.
• Prose: 'Hamlet's Advice to the Players', speech from Shakespeare's Hamlet, Act III, Scene Two, 41-42; 'De Quincy's Dream' by English writer Thomas De Quincy (1785-1859) 44; '"Menin Gate at Midnight"', "a reading supplied by the Australian War Memorial Authorities appraising the painting by Australian artist Will Longstaff, with illustration: 'The Menin Gate Memorial at Ypres, Belgium', 45; 'Seasonable Work for Little Gardeners: ' (unattributed gardening instructions) 45; 'From Scott's Diary : The End of the Journey', extract from the journal of explorer Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912), with illustration: 'Scott's Statue in London', 46-47; 'Room for the Glory of All!', extract from a speech by a Japanese ambassador, 48.
• Poetry: 'Coronach' by Scottish writer Walter Scott (1771-1832), with portrait: 'Sir Walter Scott, "The Wizard of the North"', 34; 'The Lady of Shalott (concluded)', second part of poem by Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) begun in previous issue, with illustration: '"Down the river's dim expanse"', after the painting by J. W. Waterhouse, 39-41; 'Clouds', by English poet John Drinkwater, 42; 'Summer' by New Zealand writer Edith Howes (q.v.) from her book of selected poems The World So Full, 45; 'What I Live For' by George Linnaeus Banks, 48.
• History: 'The Anzacs' Part in the Dardanelles Campaign' (unattributed), with map, 34-38.
• Aphorisms: 'Gentlemen' by Shakespeare, 38.
• Industry: 'Made in Australia: Pumps', prepared by the Made in Australia Council, Melbourne, and issued as a supplement to The School Paper under the authority of the Minister of Public Instruction, Victoria, illustrated with diagrams, i-iv;
• Notices: 'Notices', regarding 'Spelling Tests' and the 'Price of The School Paper', 48; 'Lonely Children', a follow-up notice to that in the March issue, reporting on the pen-pal scheme, 48.

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.