Cirrus@Austlit

Only literary material by Australian authors is individually indexed.

Other material in this issue includes:

• First page picture: 'A View on the Loddon River, Victoria' (unattributed) accompanying poem 'Out in the Woods' [65].
• Editor's Note: 'Regular Attendance' list of schools who achieved very high attendance rates, 80.
• Poetry: 'Out in the Woods' extract from A Taunt by American poet Maurice Thompson (q.v.) [65]-66; 'The Rose' by English poet William Browne (1590-1645) 72; 'The Pumpkin' by American poet John Greenleaf Whittier (q.v.) 74-75; 'On Planting a Tree' by James Russell Lowell (q.v.) 78; 'A Path in the Forest' by American poet William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) with photograph: 'A Path in the Forest' 78; 'Trees' extract from The Faerie Queen by English poet Edmund Spenser (q.v.) 80.
• Non-Fiction: 'Effects of Forest Growth on Climate' extract from Physics of the Earth by Duff, 68-69; 'The Giant Trees of Victoria' extract from Notes on the Giant Trees of Victoria by N. J. Caire and later published in The Victorian Naturalist with photograph: 'A Mountain Ash (Eucalyptus stuartina) "King Edward" Near Marysville' 72-74; 'The Apple' by G. H. Adcock, Principal Viticultural College, Rutherglen with diagram of an apple from Hodge's Nature Study and Life, 75-77.
• Prose: 'True Nature Study' by American naturalist John James Audubon (1780-1851) with two photographs by Mr A. E. Kitson: 'A Distant View of Kosciusko (South of NSW) from the Gehi River- One of the Head Waters of the Murray' and 'View of the Summit of Mt Kosciusko, 7328ft, the Highest Point in Australia' 66-68; 'A Spray of Pine' extract from essay by American author John Burroughs in A Nature Reader for Senior Students with photograph: 'Pine Trees (Pinus insignis), Fitzroy Gardens, Melbourne' 78-80.
• Conundrum: 'Nature's Grandest Lesson' (unattributed) paragraph about nature and God.