Cirrus@Austlit

Only literary material by Australian authors is individually indexed.

Other material in this issue includes:

• Poetry: 'A Day in Summer' by American poet James Russell Lowell (q.v.) with portrait: 'James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)' [129]-130; 'The Battle of Flodden Field' continuation of extracts from Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field by Sir Walter Scott (q.v.) with illustration: 'Royal Arms of Scotland' 134-135; 'Tom Bowling' words to the naval song by Charles Dibdin (1745-1814) 143; 'Thy Home' extract from Home and Country by British poet James Montgomery (1771-1854) 144.
• Fiction: 'Escape of Mary Queen of Scots From Lochleven Castle' (unattributed) extract by Sir Walter Scott (q.v.) for continuation with portrait: 'Mary Stuart (1542-1587) Queen of Scots' 130-134; 'The Rapids' by American temperance advocate John B. Gough (1817-1886) with two photographs by Underwood and Underwood's Melbourne representatives: 'Niagara River, the Gorge and Rapids' and 'Horseshoe Falls, Niagara River', 141-142.
• Non-Fiction: 'The Earthworm' continuation of extracts by John Albert Leach (q.v.) with three illustrations from The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Actions of Worms by Charles Darwin (q.v.): 'Section Through One of the Fallen Druidical Stones at Stonehenge', 'Section Through the Foundations of a Buried Roman Villa at Abinger, Surrey England' and 'Section Within a Room in the Basilica (Main Hall) at Silchester, Hampshire England' and map: 'Distribution of Land and Water When Australia was Joined to South America' from Ortmann's Distribution of the Decapods, 135-140.
• Prose: 'Avarice Punished' (unattributed) 143; 'Diogenes, an Ancient Philosopher' (unattributed) 144.