Cirrus@Austlit

Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed.

Other material in this issue includes:

• First page picture: 'The Visit of a Prince', photograph of the Duke and Duchess of York, [33].
• Poetry: 'The Little White Gate' by Florence Hoatson, a modern English writer, 35; 'The Wind' by Robert Louis Stevenson (q.v.) (1850-1893) in A Child's Garden of Verses, 39; 'The Hairy Dog' by Herbert Asquith, a modern English writer, in Pillicock Hill, 42; 'An Autumn Song' by Richard Watson Dixon (slightly adapted) 44.
• Fiction: 'The Queen Bee', illus., adapted from Grimm's Fairy Tales, 42-44; 'King Wren' (unattributed) 45-46; 'The Merchant' by Hindu writer Rabindranath Tagore (q.v.) 46.
• Drama: 'Trying to Please Everybody' adapted from Aesop, illus., 40-41
• Prose: 'The Visit of a Prince' (unattributed) [33]-34; 'Greater Than Kings' by 'W', illustrated with a portrait of William Shakespeare, 35-36; 'Anzac Day' (unattributed) illus., 37-39.
• Quotations: 'Little Sayings From Shakespeare', 37.
• Notices: Spelling Tests (Victoria); Price of The School Paper, 48.

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.