Cirrus@Austlit

Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed.

Other material in this issue includes:

• Poetry: 'The Punctuation Points' by St. Nicholas, 81; 'In the Crimean War' by Lushington, 84-85.
• Fiction: 'The Old Spaniard and his Pumpkins' (unattributed), 87-88.
• Natural History: 'The Niagara Falls' by W. S. Caine, adapted from A Trip Round the World, with illus., 85-87.
• History: 'The Discovery of Australia' (unattributed), 90-92.
• Moral Instruction: 'Courage' (continued), adapted from a lesson issued by the Moral Instruction League, London, (to be continued), 88-90.
• Notices: 'From Our Note-Book' several short items: ' Preservation of the Opossum and Kangaroo', 'The Gold Yield in Victoria', 'A Mountaineering Accident', 'The British Empire' and 'The Size of London', 94-95; 'A Young Bookbinder's Work' (unattributed), 95; 'Notice' (unattributed), 95.
• Health: 'Melbourne Hospital for Sick Children' (unattributed), with illus., 92-94.
• Music: 'God Bless the Prince of Wales' by Brinley Richards, 96.