Cirrus@Austlit

Only literary material by Australian authors is individually indexed.

Other material in this issue includes:

• First page picture: 'Scene in the Botanic Gardens, Melbourne [showing] Government House' (unattributed) accompanying five extracts of poetry: 'Spring Time Verses', [113].
• Poetry: 'Spring Time Verses' comprises five extracts including first two lines from Song of the Lotos Eaters by Alfred Tennyson (q.v.), two stanzas of Spring in Australia by Henry Clarence Kendall (q.v.), four lines from By Wood and Wold by Adam Lindsay Gordon (q.v.), three stanzas from Morning in the Bush by William Sharp (q.v.) and eight lines from Wattle and Myrtle by James Lister Cuthbertson (q.v.) [113]-114; 'To the Violet' by American poet James Russell Lowell (q.v.) 117; 'The Time of the Barmecides' by Irish poet James Clarence Mangan (1803-1849) 123-124; 'In Spring Time' comprising two extracts of poetry: (unattributed) two lines about wattle and four line extract from Song of the Future by A. B. Paterson (q.v.) 124; 'The Sum of It All' by Dr Ray Palmer, 128.
• Fiction: 'The Girl With the Lasting Charm' (unattributed) 115-117.
• Non-Fiction: 'Our Governors' (unattributed) with six (unattributed) illustrations: 'Captain Phillip, Governor of New South Wales (1788-1792)', 'Major General Sir Thomas Brisbane (q.v.), Governor of New South Wales (1821-1825)', 'Charles Joseph La Trobe, Superintendant of Port Phillip District from 1839 to July 1851, and Then Lieutenant Governor of Victoria to 1854', 'Sir Charles Hotham (q.v.), Lieutenant Governor of Victoria (1854-1855)', 'Major General the Honourable Sir Reginald Talbot, KCB, Governor of Victoria (1904-1908)' and 'His Excellency Sir Thomas Gibson-Carmichael, Baronet, Governor of Victoria' and two photographs: 'The Honourable Lady Talbot' by Alice Mills of Melbourne and 'Lady Gibson-Carmichael' by T. Humphrey and Co. of Melbourne, 118-123.
• Prose: 'The Bird' extract from The Queen of the Air by John Ruskin (q.v.) with diagram: 'Swallow Tailed Falcon', 114-115; 'Alcohol Neither Health Nor Heat Giving' extract from lecture by Norman Kerr, MD, 125-126; 'A Living Bridge' by C. F. Holder with illustration: 'A Living bridge' from the Commonwealth School Paper in Sydney, 126-128.
• Notices: 'Scholarship Winners' greatest number were from Tooronga Road School, Malvern with photograph: 'Scholarship Winners (1907), State School No. 2586, Malvern, Their Teachers and the Head Teacher of the School' twenty six individuals identified in photograph, 128.