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Notes

Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed.

Other material in this issue includes:
- Poetry: 'Somebody's Mother' Anonymous, with illus. of 'Collins-Street, Melbourne' 33-34; 'Peter Noddy' from Pearson's Weekly, 37; 'Life' (unattributed), 40; 'They Didn't Think' by American poet Phoebe Cary (1824-71), 41.
- Fiction: 'An Indian's Grattitude' adapted from the Commonwealth School Paper, with illus., 34-36; 'The Crocodiles' (unattributed), with illus., 41-43; 'The Travels Of A Fox' (unattributed), with illus., 44-46.
- Moral Instruction: 'The Peacock and the Magpie' one of the Fables of Aesop, with illus., 46-47.
- Anthropology: 'The Children of Switzerland' from The School Journal, N.Z., with illus., 37-40.
- Music: 'Old Folks at Home' by Stephen C. Foster, 47-48.
Preceding or following each piece is a short glossary of the longer words contained therein, as well as notes about people and places mentioned, and comments on the metre of poetry.