Cirrus@Austlit

Only literary material by Australian authors is individually indexed (none in this issue).

Other material in this issue includes:

• Poetry: 'The River' by C. A. Bowles with illus., 99-100; 'The Frost' by American Poet Hannah Flagg Gould (1795-1865), 102-103; 'Grandmother's Sermon' (unattributed), 108.
• Prose: 'A Spring Lesson' (unattributed), 97; 'Try Again' (unattributed), 97-98; 'I Would Rather Sing' adapted from a reprint in The Southern Baptist, 109;
• Music: ''Tis Winter' (unattributed), 111-112.
• Health: 'Why Boys Should Not Use Tobacco' from the Child's Health Primer (Pathfinder Physiology, No. 1), 105-106.
• Natural History: 'The Elephant' (unattributed), with illus., 103-105.
• History: 'The Death of William Rufus' (unattributed), with illus., 106-108.
• Notices: 'News and Notes' (unattributed), short items: : 'Antarctic Exploration', 'What is an Island?', 'How the Ear-drum May be Injured', 'The Lion's Memory' and 'A Home Exercise Book 3,600 Years Old', 109-111; 'Notices' (unattributed), 111.