Cirrus@Austlit

Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed.

Other material in this issue includes:

• First Page Picture: 'Half Angel and Half Bird' from painting by English artist Sir Joshua Reynolds (q.v.), 129.
• Poetry: 'The Poet's Songs' by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (q.v.), with (unattributed) portrait: 'Henry W. Longfellow', 130; 'Have Pity' by English poet William Blake (q.v.), 133; 'Birds As Guests' four lines from 'The Birds of Killingworth' by Henry Longfellow (q.v.) accompanying bird house construction guide of same title, 133; 'The Ride of Colin Graves' by Irish-American poet John Boyle O'Reilly (q.v.), with (unattributed) illustration:' Marcus Curtius' from a picture in National Gallery, Melbourne, 135-137.
• Drama: 'The Slaughter of the Innocents' dramatization of Longfellow's (q.v.) poem 'Birds of Killingworth', with (unattributed) illustrations: 'An American Bluebird' and 'An American Robin', 137-138.
• Prose: 'Orpheus and Eurydice' abridged by Sir W. G. Cox, with illustrations: 'Orpheus' line drawing and 'The Parting of Orpheus and Eurydice' photograph of sculptured frieze from Illustrations of School Classics by G. F. Hill, 139-142.
• Science: 'The Birds and I' nature study by American author Liberty H. Bailey, with two photographs: 'Jacky Winter At Home' by J. H. Fowler in Mateship With Birds and 'White-Shafted Fantail At Nest' from Birds At Our Bush, 130-132; 'Birds As Guests' (unattributed) guide to making bird houses, from The School Paper : Grades V and VI October 1916, with illustration: 'For the Birds' construction diagram, 133-135.
• Song: 'Sweet Bird' (unattributed) 143-144.