Cirrus@Austlit

Only literary material by Australian authors is individually indexed.

Other material in this issue includes:

• First page picture: '"Under the Blossom That Hangs on the Bough"' from watercolour painting by W. Follen Bishop in the Exhibition of the British Art Gallery, Melbourne, accompanying poem: 'To Blossoms' [65].
• Poetry: 'To Blossoms' by English poet Robert Herrick (q.v.) [65]; 'The Passing of the Forest' by New Zealand politician and journalist William Pember Reeves (1857-1932) 74; 'The Planting of a Tree' extract from the 1907 issue of Rhode Island Arbor Day Circular by American poet Marion Couthouy Smith (1853-1931) 76-77; 'Nature and Man' poem called Lines Written in Early Spring by William Wordsworth (q.v.) 79; 'Gems of Thought For Arbor Day' comprising five poems: 'A Wish' by James Russell Lowell (q.v.), 'The Pleasure to be Found in Nature' (unattributed), 'Tree Planting, a Good Work' by James Russell Lowell (q.v.), 'Nature' by William Wordsworth (q.v.) and 'Working With God' (unattributed) 80.
• Non-Fiction: 'Forest Reservation in the United States of America' proclamation of additional forest reserves by President Roosevelt, 79.
• Prose: 'The Spirit of Arbor Day' extract from the Rhode Island Arbor Day Circular by Frank A. Hill, 66; 'Legends of the Poplar' extract from The Greenwood Tree by Edward Arnold with (unattributed) photograph: 'A Poplar', 74-75; 'Arbor Day' by C. B. Luffmann, 77-79; 'The Wrong Tree' (unattributed) 79.
• Notices: 'School Garden Products: Special Section at the Royal Agricultural Show, Melbourne' at next September show, 79.