Cirrus@Austlit

Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed.

Other material in this issue includes:

• First page picture: 'The British Empire in May', the map and the diagram given above are from Philips British Empire Calendar 1927, a set of wall-sheets very useful in the schoolroom [49]
• Poetry: 'Land Of Our Birth' stanzas from The Children's Song by Rudyard Kipling, a living English poet and novelist [49]-50; 'To Whom?' John Oxenham, a modern English poet, 51; 'Bruce and the Spider' Eliza Cook (1818-1889) an English poetess, illus.; 'Langley Lane' Robert Buchanan (1841-1901), Scottish poet, dramatist and novelist, who lived in London, 58-59; 'The Girl Who Smiles' M.A. Gillette, an American writer, illustrated with a photo entitled "A Girl That Smiles" and caption (she is a Lett, a native of Latvia, one of the new republics of Europe having Riga as its capital) 61-62; 'A Wanderer's Song' John Masefield, a living English poet, born in 1875, illustrated with a photo of John Masefield, 63
• Fiction: 'The Crocodile Pest' illus.(unattributed) 57-58; 'Cross Questions and Kind Answers' based on a story by B.Drillien, in The Merry-Go-Round, 59-60; 'The King and the Figs' (unattributed) from The Queensland Readers, Book III, 62-63
• Prose: 'Servants of the People' Dr. Richard Wilson, in Servants of the People, illustrated with a drawing of "Westminster Abbey: the Poets' Corner", 50-51; 'Noble Women' Louise Creighton, in Some Famous Women, illus., 54-55
• Drama: 'King Alfred and the Cakes' (unattributed) illustration "Alfred in the Neatherd's Cottage" from the painting by Sir David Wilkie, R.A. (1785-1841) 52-54;
• Song: 'Before All Lands in East or West' Dr. Lowell Mason, 64
• Notices: Spelling Tests (Victoria); Price of The School Paper, 63