Cirrus@Austlit

Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed.

Other material in this issue includes:

• Poetry: 'Christmastide in England' (c.1900) by British children's author Margaret Haycraft, reproduced from the Children's Hour, South Australia, 163; 'Christmas Eve : Two Little Stockings' by 'Anonymous' [authored by American poet Sarah Keables Hunt, published in St. Nicholas Magazine (ed. Mary Mapes Dodge), c.1874, 167-168; 'Lady-bird! Lady-bird! fly away home' (unattributed), 170; 'Children's Christmas Song' (unattributed), 174.
• Prose: 'A Christmas Present For The Birds' (unattributed), with illus., 162; 'Good-will Towards Men : A Christmastide Story', 'from the German', with illus. 'A Swiss Village - Sermatt : The Matterhorn in the Distance', 'From Verdure to Eternal Snow - Matterhorn from Pathway above Zermatt, Switzerland', 'An Alpine House', 'Interior of a Switzer's Mountain Home' from stereographs by Mr. A. K. Zimmerman (q.v.), Australasian representative of Underwood and Underwood, 163-167; 'The Robin in Church', from Birds' Nests, a leaflet issued by the Victorian Society for the Protection of Animals, with illus. 'The Robin', and 'English Holly', 168-170; 'Winged Seeds, or the Faithful Plane Tree' by E. Robertson Croom, adapted from the Children's Hour, South Australia, with illus. 'Early Spring : A Plane-Tree Avenue in the Fitzroy Gardens, Melbourne', and 'Spray from a Plane-Tree, showing Leaves, Three Flowers just becoming Fruit...Ripe Fruit ready to part with its Seeds, and a Seed', 171-173; 'The Three Gold-Fish' by 'Sunday', 173-174.
• Natural Science: 'The Lady-Bird', from Harold's Rambles (1900) by American educationalist J. W. Troeger, with illus., 170.
• Music: 'While Gladness Hails The Parting Year' (c.1866), words by J. Smith and music by [John Wall] Callcott (1766-1821), 174-176.