Cirrus@Austlit

Only literary material by Australian authors is individually indexed.

Other material in this issue includes:

• First page picture: 'J. Brunton Stephens' (q.v.) accompanying poem 'A Coin of Trajan in Australia', [97].
• Editor's Note: 'Scholarship Examination, 1908: A Successful Small School' awarded to Kew East with photograph: 'Head Teacher and Scholarship Winners, Kew East School [showing] Clive Frazer, William F. Tate, Ray Winter, William Robinson, Violet Bruce, Mr J McRae BA, Dip Education and Dorothy Mathews', 112.
• Poetry: 'Ladder of St. Augustine' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (q.v.) 103-104; 'The Need for a Decision' first stanza of a poem by American poet James Russell Lowell (q.v.) 112.
• Non-Fiction: 'Farthest South' (unattributed) account of Shackleton's voyage to the Antarctic in the Nimrod with (unattributed) photograph: 'The "Nimrod"' and three sourced illustrations: 'Professor David' from coloured engraving in The Lone Hand, 'Antarctic Ice Barrier, Mountains and Ice Floes' from Bernacchi's To the South Polar Regions: Expedition of 1898-1900 and 'South Polar Regions' adapted from map in The Practical Teacher, 104-111.
• Prose: 'The Horse and the Olive' extract from Old Greek Stories by American author James Baldwin (1841-1925) with three (unattributed) illustrations: 'Coin of Hadrian', 'Coin of Athens' and 'The Acropolis (The Eminence) Crowned by the Parthenon' and photograph by E. J. Forbes of Melbourne of an Elson print: 'Remains of the Parthenon, Athens', 98-103.