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First Page Picture: 'Leafy Memorials : Returned Anzacs Planting Memorial Trees on Anzac Day, 25th April, in the Government House Domain, Melbourne' from The Leader, Melbourne, [65].
Poetry: 'On Planting a Tree' by American poet James Russell Lowell (q.v.), 71; 'Stanzas from 'The Planting of the Apple-Tree'' by American poet William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878), 73-74; 'Men of the Future', from Young Men : Faults and Ideals (1893) by American author James Russell Miller (1840-1912), 80.
Prose: 'Forestry in Victoria' (unattributed), with illus. 'Forest in Gippsland : White Stringybark and Silvertop', 'Forest at Mount Macedon, Victoria : Young Blackbutt and Messmate', and 'School of Forestry at Creswick, Victoria', 66-71; 'The Fruitful Soil : A Tale of the War Relief Gardener's League, Victoria' (unattributed), with illus. of appropriate planting heights, 72-73; 'Progress of the War' (unattributed), with 'Map of a Part of North-Eastern France', 77-78.
Drama: 'Life in the Woods and at the Court' from As You Like It, Act II, sc.i, by English dramatist and poet William Shakespeare (q.v.), 80.
Correspondence: 'Noteworthy Letters' by British commander General [W. R. ]Birdwood (q.v.), with illus. 'Anzac Commemoration Tablet', 74-76, and Major J. S. Denton, a former pupil of South Melbourne School No. 2686, 76-77.
Notes: 'Examination for Entry to the Royal Australian Naval College', 71.
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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A poetic memorial the Victorian Eighth Light Brigade who suffered at Lone Pine, on the occasion of the planting a memorial tree that symbolises the future growth and continuity of the nation and Empire.
(p. [65]-66)
Note:
Reproduced from The Argus.
With photograph: 'Leafy Memorials : Returned Anzacs Planting Memorial Trees on Anzac Day, 25th April, in the Government House Domain, Melbourne', from 'the proprietors of The Leader, Melbourne'.
Writing from Gallipoli in December 1915, Birdwood honours the Australian and New Zealand forces and explains the reasoning for his choice of the name 'Anzac' as the 'telegraphic code address' on the Egyptian front, and 'Anzac Cove' for the place at which the forces landed at Gallipoli.