Cirrus@Austlit

Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed.

Other material in this issue includes:

• First page picture: 'Dapple Grey' (unattributed) photograph of two girls riding a Shetland Pony held by a boy, 97.
• Poetry: 'The Pony' (unattributed), 97-98; 'The Sands of Dee' by English poet Charles Kingsley (1819-1875), with illustration: 'They Rowed Her In', 99-100; 'The Rain Lesson' by American poet Lydia Sigourney (1791-1865), 105-106; 'Stanzas From "The Cloud"' by English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (q.v.), 112.
• Fiction: 'Sunshine and Smiles (A Fairy Tale)' (unattributed), 109-110; 'The Burning of the Rice-Field' adapted by Sara Cone Bryant from a story by Japanese author Lafcadio Hearn, with illustration: 'Planting Rice' (unattributed) photograph, 110-112.
• Prose: 'The Wombat' (unattributed) extract from The Commonwealth School Paper, with illustration: 'Wombats', 98-99; 'The Stone in the Road' (unattributed) fable about hard work and success, 100-101; 'A Chat About the Months: August' (unattributed) with poems by Inez K. Hyland (q.v.) and Henry Kendall (q.v.), illustrations: 'Cherry Blossom' and photograph labelled 'John Pascoe Fawkner (q.v.), born Oct 20, 1792', 107-109.
• Conundrum: 'Do It Now' by Charles Kingsley, 106.

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.