Cirrus@Austlit

Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed.

Other material in this issue includes:

• First Page Picture: 'Spring is Coming', photographs of Waratah and Wattle, [97].
• Poetry: 'The Stars' by English poet Barry Cornwall (Bryan Waller Procter) (1787-1874), 101; 'The Country Bedroom' by English writer Frances Cornford (1886-1960), 106; 'Dauber at Cape Horn' by English Poet Laureate, John Masefield (q.v.), with illus. 'Caught in Her Ball-Dress' by Melbourne artist Mr. A.V. Gregory (reproduced from The Leader, Melbourne) and 'John Masefield as a Young Man', 109-110.
• Fiction: 'The King and the Boy', an extract from History of the Four Georges by William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863), 111.
• Natural History: 'Evenings with the Stars', written for The School Paper by R.J.A. Barnard, M.A., Senior Lecturer in Mathematics, University of Melbourne, with illus. of southern constellations, 98-101; 'Winter in the Gardens' by an anonymous writer, reproduced from The Age, with illus. 'A Path in the Fitzroy Gardens', 101-102.
• Drama: 'Dogberry's Charge to the Watch', an extract from Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare (q.v.), with illus. 'Dogberry and the Watch' by British painter Sir John Gilbert (1817-1897), 104-106.
• Prose: 'Winter' by Scottish author John Wilson (1785-1854) 108; 'Night in the Open', an extract from Travels With a Donkey by Robert Louis Stevenson (q.v.), 108; 'A Forest in New Guinea', an extract from The Land of the New Guinea Pygmies by British soldier, explorer and author, Brigadier-General C.G. Rawling (1870-1917), 111.
• Song: 'The Dusky Night Ridees Down the Sky', an Old English air, words from 'Hunting Song' by Henry Fielding (1707-1754), 112.