Cirrus@Austlit

Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed.

Other material in this issue includes:

• First page picture: 'The Bridge-Builders' (unattributed) [49].
• Poetry: 'The Old Country and the New', extract from A Hymn of Empire by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (q.v.) in Songs of the Road (Smith, Elder and Company), with portrait of King George and Queen Mary, 50; 'John Maynard, a Hero of Peace' (unattributed), with illustrations of John Maynard and a paddle-boat on the Great Lakes, 52-53; 'Song in the Songless' by English writer George Meredith (q.v.) 58; 'The Holiness of Beauty' by English poet and dramatist John Drinkwater (q.v) 60; 'The Private of the Buffs' by English poet Sir Francis Hastings Doyle (1810-1888) 62-63.
• Prose: 'Servants of the People' by Dr Richard Wilson from Servants of the People (J. M. Dent & Sons) 51-52.
• Fiction: 'The Silver Cask' (unattributed, to be continued) 54; 'A Brave Girl' (unattributed), with illustration: 'The Little Daughter of the Lighthouse', 58-59; 'The Merchant of Venice' (concluded) 60-62.
• Drama: 'King Alfred and the Cakes' (unattributed), with illustration: 'Alfred in the Neatherd's Cottage' from the painting by Sir David Wilkie, 56-58.
• Song: 'A Southerly Wind', musical round (unattributed) 63-64.
• Notices: Spelling tests, price of The School Paper, 59.

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.