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Issue Details: First known date: 1913... no. 168 October 1913 of The School Paper : Grades VII and VIII est. 1896-1932 The School Paper for Grades VII and VIII
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Notes

  • Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed.

    Other material in this issue includes:

    • Full Page Picture: 'Some Australian birds' from Australia To-Day, [146].
    • Poetry: 'Choral Song of the Birds', trans. from The Birds by Aristophanes (c.448-380 B.C.) by British diplomat and writer John Hookham Frere (1769-1846), with illus. 'Blue Wren by Captain Brew, F.Z.S., and 'Young Magpie Lark', [145]; 'Gleams', a collection of short verse from 'The Triumph of Life' by Shelley (q.v.), 'Paradise Lost' by Milton (q.v.), and 'Concord of Sweet Sounds' by Byron (q.v.), 149; 'The Falcon' by American poet James Russell Lowell (q.v.), 150; 'A Poet's Fancy', an extract from 'The Song of Flowers' (1884) by Scottish poet William Sharp (q.v.), 156.
    • Natural History: 'The Australian Ground Thrush' by Australian ornithologist, Isaac Batey, Drouin West, 149; 'Where Birds Do Congregate' by Australian ornithologist, H. Stuart Dove (q.v.), 150-151; 'How the Wrens Changed Their Coats' by Mrs. C. R. Bidgood, Staghorn Flat, Victoria, with illus. 'Blue Wrens and Nest', 151-153; 'An Odd Bird : The Penguin' by Australian ornithologist, A. H. [Arthur Herbert Evelyn] Mattingley (1870-1950), with photographs 'Fairy Penguin and Young' and 'Homeward Bound' by the author, 154-156; 'My Camp Birds' by Australian ornithologist H. W. Ford, with illus. 'Young Choughs', 157.
    • Song: 'Hark! The Lark', words by William Shakespeare (q.v.) and music by English composer Dr. B. [Benjamin] Cooke (1734-1793), 158-160.
  • Preceding or following each piece is a short glossary of the longer words contained therein, as well as notes about people and places mentioned.

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The Boy and the Bird, Alec H. Chisholm , single work prose children's
Chisholm promotes to children the value of studying birdlife in its natural habitat, rather than by book-learning. While he acknowledges that ornithology is gaining a place in Australian education, he is concerned for the decrease in the number of birds in Victoria.
 (p. 147-148)
Note:
  • With photograph : 'Out in the Woods : Pupils of Harrietville School, Upper Ovens River, Victoria' by Mr. A. Edwards.
  • Preceded by 12 lines from 'May-Day' by American poet Ralph Waldo Emerson (q.v.).
Wattle Goldi"Winter, trailing misty garments, her departure slowly taketh", C. R. B. , single work poetry children's
An exultation to the wattle tree as presage to the exubrant, golden Spring that follows the chill, misty Winter.
 (p. 153-154)
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