Cirrus@Austlit

Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed.

Other material in this issue includes:

• First page picture: 'Wattle Blossoms', photograph by A. J. Relph, 113.
• Poetry: 'Spring Song' by English poet Robert Browning (q.v.) 115; 'The Lamb' by English poet William Blake (q.v.), with photograph: 'I, a Child, and Thou, a Lamb', 116; 'How the Baby Grows' (unattributed), 120-121; [Untitled] single line from 'September in Australia' by Henry Clarence Kendall (q.v.) 123.
• Fiction: 'The Ten Fairies', extract from the German of Guerber by Sara Cone Bryant in Stories to Tell to Children, with illustration: 'A Country Home in Germany' from stereograph lent by A. K. Zimmerman, Australasian Representative of Underwood and Underwood, New York, 118-120; 'Hugh John and the Scots Greys', abridged from Sir Toady Lion by Scottish author S. R. Crockett, with illustration: 'Every Glade Glittered As It Came To the Salute', 121-123; 'A Cup of Cold Water' (unattributed) from Tales of Old Time, with illustration: 'You Need It More Than I Do', 126-127.
• Prose: 'Water Spiders', extract from article by Margaret Nelson in The Children's Paper, with illustration: 'The Nest of the Water Spider', 116-118; 'A Chat About the Months: September' (unattributed) with three unnamed extracts of poetry (indexed below) by Henry Clarence Kendall (q.v.), Adam Lindsay Gordon (q.v.) and William Gay (q.v.), with illustrations: 'Victorian Locomotives Old and New' and cameo of 'John King', 123-125; 'The Poor Man Enriched' from Kriloff's Russian Fables, 127-128.

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.