Cirrus@Austlit

Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed.

Other material in this issue includes:

• First Page Picture: 'Christmas Cheer : The Old Home and the New' from a picture by C. E. Hammond (q.v.), Malvern, [161].
• Poetry: 'Holidays', an excerpt from Henry IV Part I by William Shakespeare (q.v.), 167; 'Christmas Bells' by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (q.v.), 168; 'The Print of Olden Wars' by American novelist and poet R. L. Stevenson (q.v.), 174.
• Prose: 'A Christmas Day in England', an extract from The Sketch Book by American writer Washington Irving (q.v.), illus., 163-165; 'The Balkan States', an extract, with maps, from The World, published by McDougall's Educational Co., 171-174.
• Fiction: 'A Christmas Pantomime', a summary of Maeterlinck's Belgian pantomime about Tyltyl and Mytyl, from Talks with Children about Themselves by Amy B. Barnard (1863-?), 165-167.
• Notes: 'Proposed Statue to Flinders' (unattributed), advising generous financial support for the construction of a commemorative statue of Matthew Flinders (q.v.), 168; 'Delicate and Convalescent Children' (unattributed), advising reduced Victorian Railways fares fir children in a 'delicate state of health', 176.
• Song: 'Christmas Bells' (unattributed), a Christmas carol, 175.