Cirrus@Austlit

Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed.

Other material in this issue includes:

• First Page Picture: 'The Birthplace of Captain Matthew Flinders' from the photographic collection of George Gordon McCrae (q.v.), [145].
• Poetry: 'Two Novembers' by English poet Thomas Hood (q.v.), 152-153.
• History: 'A Brief Biography of Captain Matthew Flinders' (unattributed), with reprod. of photographs from the collection of George Gordon McCrae (q.v.): 'The School at Donnington, Lincolnshire, where Flinders Received His Education as a Boy', 'Donnington Parish Church, in the Chancel of which is a Memorial Tablet to Flinders', and portrait of Flinders from the Naval Chronicle, 148-152.
• Fiction: 'Tom Brown's Last Cricket Match at Rugby', an extract from Tom Brown's School Days by English author Thomas Hughes (1822-1896), illus., 153-156.
• Drama: 'King Henry IV's Soliloquy on Sleep', an extract from Henry IV Part II, Act III, Sc. i, by English playwright, William Shakespeare (q.v.), illus., 157-158.
• Prose: 'The Proposed Flinders Statue' (unattributed), a report of the proposal of the Victorian Branch of the Royal Geographical Society of Australia to recognise Matthew Flinders (q.v.) with a statue, with illus. 'A Suggestion for the Statue', 146-148; 'The Story of "The Canadian Boat Song"', with illus. 'A Scene on the St. Lawrence River', from The School Journal, N.Z., 158-159.
• Song: 'A Canadian Boat Song', words and music by Irish poet Thomas Moore, 160.