Cirrus@Austlit

Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed.

Other material in this issue includes:

• Full Page Picture: 'The Australian', from The Children's Treasury of Australian Verse, [161].
• Poetry: 'A Song of Thanks' by American poet, John Greenleaf Whittier (q.v.), 171.
• Fiction: 'The Chick', an extract from 'Domestic Fowl' orig. published in Birds and Nature, Vol. VIII, No. 3, Oct. 1900, by American writer Gail Hamilton (Mary A. Dodge) (1838-1905), with illus. 'Just Out', 162-164; 'Running the Gauntlet', an extract from The Last of the Mohicans by American author James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851), with illus. 'Indian Brave', 168-169; 'The Under-Sheriff Goes Afield' from Lettres de mon Moulin by French author Alphonse Daudet (1840-1897), trans. by H.G.W., with illus. 'A French Village' and 'Vintage Scene in Southern France', 172-174.
• Prose: 'The Cause', an extract from Stories for Young Hearts and Minds by British socialist F. J. [Frederick James] Gould (1855-1938), 164-165; 'The American Indian' by American poet and prose writer Charles Sprague (1791-1875), with illus. 'The Passing of the Red Man : A Statuary Group', 169-171.
• Drama: 'Wolsey's Farewell', an extract from Henry VIII by English playwright William Shakespeare (q.v.), with illus.'Wolsey at Leicester Abbey' by R. Westall, 165-167.
• Notices: 'Cadet Competitions and the Melbourne High School' (unattributed) with photograph 'Cadets from the Melbourne High School Marching in Sydney', 174-175.
• Song: 'Auld Lang Syne' by Scottish poet Robert Burns (q.v.), 175-176.