Cirrus@Austlit

Only literary material by Australian authors is individually indexed.

Other material in this issue includes:

• Poetry: 'A Greyport Legend, 1797' extract from poem by American poet Bret Harte (q.v.) [82]; 'Bill and Joe' by American author Oliver Wendell Holmes (q.v.) 87; 'The Discoverer of the North Cape' extract from poem by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (q.v.) with photograph: 'The North Cape' by John Byatt and illustration: 'The Midnight Sun at Tromsoe, North of Norway' from A Manual of Elementary Science by Gregory and Simmons, 91-93; 'The New and the Old Song' from Indecision: A Tale of the Far West and Other Poems by American author John Kearsley Mitchell (1798-1858) 96.
• Fiction: 'Amyas Leigh and His Revenge' continuation of extracts from Westward Ho! by English author Charles Kingsley (1819-1875) with (unattributed) map of the Bristol Channel and photograph: 'Bideford Bay' from the History of the British Colonial Empire, 82-86.
• Prose: 'A Geographical Description in the Ninth Century' (unattributed) with (unattributed) map: 'Northern Europe in the Ninth Century' and illustration: 'Walruses (Horse-Whales)' 93-96.
• Conundrum: 'The Marks of Friendship' noted as a Chinese Saying, 86; 'Patience Under Misfortune' extract from the Imitation of Christ by Catholic Monk Thomas Kempis (1380-1471) 86.