Cirrus@Austlit

Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed.

Other material in this issue includes:

• First page picture: 'The Holidays: Before and After', upper picture shows a class at a Melbourne school on break-up day (photo by Foxcroft); the lower one, pupils of the Forge Creek School, Gippsland (from The Gap magazine) [1].
• Poetry: 'Bears and Squares' a child's fancy, by A.A. Milne, from London Punch (slightly adapted), illus., 3; 'The Little Tin Whistle' by E.Nesbit (q.v.), with illustration 'And Blows It With All His Might' from a painting by Michel Dupuy, recently exhibited in the Paris Salon, 4; 'Water' by Stephen Southwold (q.v.) (slightly adapted) 9; 'Little Boy Blue' by American writer Eugene Field (1851-95) 11.
• Fiction: 'The Hill' by Laura Richards from The Golden Windows, 2; 'The Country Boy in Town' (unattributed) 3-4; 'The Three Little Pigs' (unattributed), illus. 7-9; 'I'll Pay You For That!' (unattributed) 10; 'The Ugly Duckling', illus., adapted from Andersen's Fairy Tales, 11-13; 'Father Time and His Family' (unattributed) 14-15.
• Drama: 'The Wind', abridged from a play in Three Mother-Story Plays for Young Children, by Evelyn Townend, 5-7.
• Prose: 'How To Draw What One Sees' illustrated with pictures from The Victorian Railways Magazine, 14.
• Notices: Spelling Tests (Victoria); Price of The School Paper.
• Song: 'Billy and Me', words by Hogg, 16.