Cirrus@Austlit

Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed.

Other material in this issue includes:

• Poetry: 'Cargoes' by English poet John Masefield (q.v.), with illustration by R. Montgomery, Ballarat Teachers' College and acknowledgments to Extra Muros, the College magazine, [145]-146; 'Salute' by English poet Barry Pain (q.v.) with illus. 'The Empty Saddle' by James Prinsep Beadle (1863-1946), 146-147; 'The Blue and the Grey' by American poet Francis Finch (1827-1907), illus., 151-152; 'Eileen Aroon' by Irish poet Gerald Griffiths (1803-1840), 155; 'What I Have Loved' by English poet Rupert Brooke (1888-1915), with portrait of Brooke, 157-158;
• Prose: 'Seasonable Work for Little Gardeners: ' (unattributed gardening instructions) 158; 'Armistice Day, 1918' by American teacher Angelo Patri (1876-1965), author of A Schoolmaster of the Great City, with illus. 'Peace and the League of Nations' by English illustrator, Bernard Partridge (1861-1945), reproduced from London Punch, 149-150;
• Drama: 'The Greatest Country' by Melburnian Joseph B. Howie, 156-157.
• History: 'On the Way to World Peace : The Task Before The League of Nations', from Europe in the Nineteenth Century by British historians A.J. Grant and H.W.V. Temperley, with illus. 'The Passing of War' by English artist Frank. O. Salisbury (1874-1962), 147-149;
• News and Notes: 'The Jane Duff Memorial', 159; 'Some Victorian School Children', with photographs 'Girls of Terang', 'Schoolboys of Natimuk' and 'Schoolgirls at Forge Creek, near Bairnsdale, 159.
• Industry: 'Made in Australia: Enamelware', 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 photographs, i-iv;
• Notices: 'Notices', regarding 'Spelling Tests' and the 'Price of The School Paper', 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.