Cirrus@Austlit

Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed.

Other material in this issue includes:

• First Page Picture: 'Miss Ellen Terry as Portia' [81].
• Poetry: 'Ginevra' by English poet Samuel Roberts (1763-1855), 86-88; 'Winter', from Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare (q.v.), 94-95.
• Fiction: 'A Dinner at Dr. Blimber's', an extract from Dombey and Son by English author Charles Dickens (q.v.), with illus., 82-85.
• History: 'The Story of Robert Clive' from The School Journal, N.Z., with map and illus., 89-92.
• Prose: 'Now', from an essay about winter in London by English writer, Leigh Hunt (1784-1859), with illus. 'A Winter Scene on Mt. Buffalo, Eastern Victoria', 93-94.
• Announcements: 'Royal Australian Navy : Applications Invited from Boys Who Desire to be Trained as Seamen, Stokers, Signalment, or Telegraphers' (unattributed), a call to boys aged between 14 and a half and 16 years to engage in naval service until the age of 25, with successful candidates to join the HMAS Tingara, with illus. 'H.M.A. Torpedo Destroyer Yarra', 85-86.
• Drama: 'Mercy', an extract from The Merchant of Venice, Act IV, Sc. I, by William Shakespeare (q.v.), with illus. of English actress Ellen Terry (q.v.), [81]-82.
• Song: 'Hope Will Banish Sorrow' by composer George Bennett, 96.