Cirrus@Austlit

Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed.

Other material in this issue includes:

• First page picture: 'Choice Roses', from a coloured picture by Winifred Walker in The Children's Encyclopaedia, [81].
• Poetry: Section entitled 'The Queen of the Flowers', which contains the following two poems, 'The Sweetest Flower' by Irish poet Thomas Moore (1779-1852), and 'Looking in At the Window' by P. M. James, with illustration: 'A Melbourne Home with Arches for Roses', from the Development and Migration Commission, 82; 'The Lazy Buds' by Lucy Diamond, with illustration 'A Pond in the Fitzroy Gardens, Melbourne', 85; 'Nightfall' by Scottish poet Joanna Baillie (1762-1851) 89; 'The Good Time Coming' by Scottish poet Charles Mackay (1814-1889), illustration: 'A Queensland Home', from the Development and Migration Commission, 91; 'The Farmyard', extract from Evangeline, a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) 94.
• Fiction: 'The Legend of the Rose', unattributed Greek legend, 83; 'The Legend of the Laurel', from Old Greek Nature Stories by F. A. Farrar, with illustration: 'In the Botanic Gardens, Melbourne', 83-84; 'Evangeline of Acadia' (to be continued), adapted from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Evangeline, 92-93.
• Prose: 'Effects of Alcohol', extract from The Health Reader by Dr Elkington, 86-87.
• Song: 'Land of My Fathers' by S. Webbe (1740-1816) 95-96.
• Quotes and Aphorisms: 'Flowers', section containing quotes by Christina Rossetti, Sir Walter Raleigh, Longfellow, Shakespeare and Wilberforce, 84; 'The Bank of Contentment', by American poet Bayard Taylor (1825-1878) 89; 'In the Garden', by Hervey, 94.
• Notices: 'Special Notice' attributing the first page picture from last month's issue to Mr J. Kauffman, 85; 'Notices' regarding spelling tests and the price of The School Paper, 96.

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.

Contains unpaginated supplement to The School Paper, 'Circular to Parents of Pupils in Grade VI (No. 2)', with note from M. P. Hansen: "In these few pages an attempt has been made to set out the aims of post-primary education, to describe various types of post-primary schools, and to give an idea of their respective courses of study."