Cirrus@Austlit

Only literary material by Australian authors is individually indexed.

Other material in this issue includes:

• Poetry: 'The Better Way' extract from A Few More Verses by American author Susan Coolidge (1835-1905), pseudonym for Sarah Chauncey Woolsey, who wrote the Katy Did series [111]; 'The Battle of Flodden Field' continuation of extracts from Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field by Sir Walter Scott (q.v.) 117-118; 'Lessons From the Gorse' by English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning (q.v.) with untitled illustration of gorse branch by Ada Lugsdin, Daylesford Technical School, 122; 'The Soldiers Grave' by English poet Letitia Elizabeth Landon (q.v.) 126.
• Fiction: 'The Paradise of Children, or Pandora's Box' continuation of extracts from A Wonder Book for Girls and boys by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) 119-121.
• Non-Fiction: 'Wattles or Acacias' extract from The NSW Educational Gazette by J. H. Maiden, Government Botanist for NSW with four (unattributed) illustrations: 'Silver Wattle. Acacia Dealbata' photograph, 'Acacia Baileyana' diagram, 'Cootamundra Wattle. Acacia Baileyana' diagram after Ferdinand von Mueller (q.v.), 'Spray of an Acacia Showing Phyllodia and Spikes of Flowers. Acacia Longiflolia' photograph, [111]-117; 'The Earthworm' by John Albert Leach (q.v.) for continuation with four (unattributed) illustrations: 'An Earthworm', 'Section of the Front Part of an Earthworm', 'A Tower Like Casting, from the Botanic Garden, Calcutta' and 'Under Surface of Front Part of an Earthworm, Showing Four Pairs of Bristles on Each Ring', 122-125.
• Prose: 'The Dog in the Manger: A Fable' (unattributed) 125; 'The Travellers and the Oyster' (unattributed) fable, 126; 'The House That Grant Built' (unattributed) from The Children's Hour, 127.
• Notices: 'To the State School Children of Victoria' letter from L. K. McNab and Samuel Trend of the Jane Duff Testimonial Fund requesting contributions for a children's national tribute to Jane Duff (q.v.) given her role in the survival of herself and two siblings lost in the bush near Horsham in 1864 and her present reduced circumstances, 128.