Cirrus@Austlit

Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed.

Other material in this issue includes:

• First Page Picture: 'Wardens of Empire' with portraits of King George V. (q.v), Rt. Hon. H. H. Asquith, Earl Kitchener (q.v.), Field-Marshall French, and Admiral Jellicoe (q.v.) [49].
• Poetry: 'A Hymn of Empire' by British Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (q.v.), 50-51; 'The Dawn of Peace' by English social critic John Ruskin (q.v.), 55; 'On Going to the War', an extract from 'The Brook' by English poet Alfred Lord Tennyson (q.v.), 61.
• Prose: 'The War: Some Cheering Aspects' by William Gilles (q.v.) with illus. 'Scene at Victoria Station, London' reprod. from The Illustrated London News, depicting 'the arrival of the soldiers' train bringing officers and men on furlough home from the war zone', 51-54; 'Some Advice to Boys' by Lord [Frederick] Roberts (1832-1914), 55; 'The Red Cross' (unattributed), with illus. 'The Queen Mother', 'Her Excellency Lady Helen Munro Ferguson : President of the Australian Branch of the Red Cross Society', 'Red Cross Workers, Melbourne, 'The First Australian Base Hospital, Heliopolis, Egypt', and 'Help for the Wounded', 56-60; 'Lord Roberts : An Appreciation', from The Federal Magazine by The League of the Empire, with illus. 'Lord Roberts on his White Arab Charger', 62-63.
• Notices: 'Education Department's War Relief Fund : How the Work Goes On' (unattributed), with illus. 'An Interesting Cheque', 61.