Cirrus@Austlit

Only literary material by Australian authors is individually indexed.

Other material in this issue includes:

• First page picture: 'A Rural School of the Modern Type, Victoria' (unattributed) accompanying poem: 'A Bush School', [1].

• Editor's Note: 'War Savings Certificates' with example, 15.

• Poetry: 'A Summer Holiday' (unattributed) with (unattributed) photograph: 'A Scene on Brighton Beach, Melbourne, Victoria', 5; 'For Those Who Fail' by Joaquin Miller (q.v.) 10.

• Fiction: 'My First Christmas in Australia' (unattributed) with two photographs by Reverend R. D. Joynt: 'Little Aborigines Enjoying Themselves at the Roper River Mission Station, Northern Territory' and 'At the Roper River Mission Station: Aborigines Eating Watermelon', 2-3; 'A Lark's Song' extract from It Is Never Too Late to Mend by Charles Reade (q.v.) with two (unattributed) pictures: 'In the Digging Days: Cradling and Panning Off on the Yarrowee River, Ballarat' and 'Skylarks', 6-9; 'The Conjurer' (unattributed) 9-10.

• Prose: 'The Man Who Helped Others' (unattributed) about Sir Bartle Frere, 4; 'The Ears of Midas' (unattributed) with three (unattributed) pictures: 'Pan With his Dog and the Nymph Echo', 'Head of Apollo' and 'A Faun', 12-13; 'The Bishop's Goose' (unattributed) with (unattributed) picture: 'Scene in British Colombia: Part of the Canadian Pacific Railway, Overlooking the Fraser River', 13-14.

• Song: 'Auld Lang Syne' words by Robert Burns (q.v.) to a Scottish tune, 15-16.