Cirrus@Austlit

Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed.

Other material in this issue includes:

• First Page Photograph: 'A Road Through a Forest, Gippsland, Victoria' by Richards. [65].
• Poetry: 'The Passing of the Forest' by New Zealand politician and journalist, W. P. Reeves (1857-1932), with illus. 'A Red Gum-Tree' by A. J. Relph, 70-71; 'Chrysanthemums' ('author unknown'), 76; 'An Arbor-Day Wish', an extract from 'The Beggar' by American poet, James Russell Lowell (q.v.), 80.
• Prose: 'Arbor Day' (unattributed), with excerpt from 'The Heart of the Tree' by American poet and novelist Henry Cuyler Bunner (q.v.) and photograph 'Avenue Leading to a Rural School, Victoria', 66-68; 'Gardens Past and Present' by E.V.B. [The Hon. Mrs Boyle] from the Preface to From a Middlesex Garden : A Book of Garden Thoughts (1901) by Alfred H. Hyatt, with illus. '"My Lady's Garden" at Lowther Castle, Westmoreland, in the North-West of England, 68-70; 'The Earth Veil', from Modern Painters by British art critic John Ruskin (q.v.), 71-72; 'Finding the South Pole' (unattributed), with illus. 'Captain Amundsen', 'The "Fram.", and 'Map Showing Routes of Several Expeditions into the Antarctic Regions', 72-75; 'Temperance' (from Temperance Wall Sheet No. 1, Education Department, New Zealand, 77-79; 'Shakespeare and Football' (unattributed), with football-related quotations from The Comedy of Errors and King Lear by William Shakespeare (q.v.), 79.
• Announcements: 'A Successful Essayist', notice of an essay competition conducted by the British and Foreign Sailors' Society for 1912, and recalling the trophy winners for 1911 : a student from Mokepilly School [Wimmera region], Victoria, and Miss Myrtle Lee (with photograph) from the Urquhart-Street School, Ballarat, 76-77.
• Song: ' 'Tis Winter' (unattributed), 79-80.