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Notes

Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed.

Other material in this issue includes:
- Poetry: 'Summer's Sunny Days' The Child World, 170-171; 'Bobby's Question' Cassell's Little Folks, 172-173.
- Fiction: 'The Little Pine-Tree - A Christmastide Story' Hans Christian Andersen (q.v.) (adapted), with illus., 161-164; 'The Father's Return' by Mrs. Alexander, 167.
- Prose: 'Christmas' from Sunday Reading for the Young, 161; 'The Tree' by Norwegian author Bjornstjerne Bjornson (q.v.), 164.
- Moral Instruction: 'A Dog Teaches Temperance' (unattributed), 171-172.
- Natural History: '"Taddy Pole and Polly Wogg"' adapted from The Garden and Field, (Melbourne and Adelaide), 164-167; 'Sardines' (unattributed), with illus., 173-174.
- Puzzles: 'Simple Experiments, Puzzles, Etc.' by S.S., with illus., 175.
- Music: 'Dear Are the Memories of Childhood' (unattributed), 175-176.
Preceding or following each piece is a short glossary of the longer words, as well as notes about people and places mentioned and comments on the metre of poetry.