Cirrus@Austlit

Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed.

Other material in this issue includes:

• First page picture: 'The Bullock Team' photograph by Fraser and Vallance, Melbourne, 81.
• Poetry: 'The Fairy Folk' by Irish poet William Allingham (q.v.), 87-88; 'Hymn of the Sowers' translated from the Latin by Jane M. Campbell, 90; 'Room at the Top' (unattributed), 96.
• Fiction: 'The Little Mother' (unattributed) 'from the French', with illustrations: 'Yvette's Home: Her Grandmother is Seated at the Spinning-Wheel' and 'A Quiet Road in France' stereographs lent by Mr A. K. Zimmerman, The Strand, Elizabeth Street, Melbourne, agent for Messrs Underwood and Underwood of New York, 83-87; 'The Boer and his Horse' by American author Elihu Burritt (1810-1879), with illustration: 'Down He Came to the Beach', 92-94; 'Old Dobbin' (unattributed) with illustration: 'The Top of the Hill', 94-95; 'Faithful Ivan' from All Over the World, 96.
• Prose: 'A Chat About the Months: July' (unattributed) with photograph: 'Statue of John McDougall Stuart' from Department of Lands building, Sydney, 88-90; 'The Australian Porcupine or Echidna' (unattributed) with illustration: 'Australian Porcupine or Echidna', 90-92.

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.