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Notes

Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed.

Other material in this issue includes:
- Poetry: 'The Fairy Folk' by William Allingham (q.v.) (1824-89), 52; 'The Windmill' by H. W. Longfellow (q.v.) (1807-82), with illus., 55; 'Good Night' Anonymous, 57; 'Sixty Years Ago' from Harper's Young People, 59-60; 'The Kind Little Rain-Drops' from Youth's Companion, 63.
- Fiction: 'One Good Turn Deserves Another' from the Fairy Tales of the brothers Grimm, with illus., 52-55.
- Moral Instruction: 'A Robber Robbed' (unattributed), 60; 'A Noble Boy' (unattributed), 60-61; 'A Hero' (unattributed), 61; 'The Wolf and the Crane' Aesop (q.v.), 63.
- Natural History: 'Trees' (unattributed), with illus. of 'A Giant Gum-Tree, Gippsland Victoria.', 49-52; 'The Eskimo Dog' (unattributed), with illus., 56-57; 'Birds and Their Use in Keeping Down Insects' (unattributed), with illus., 58-59.
- Music: 'The Silver Lake', 63-64.
- Australian Images (Not Linked to an Article): 'Our Governor-General's Sons.' 62.
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.