Cirrus@Austlit

Only literary material by Australian authors is individually indexed.

Other material in this issue includes:

• First page picture: 'Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)' (q.v.) accompanying poem: 'The Merry, Merry Bells of Yule', [161].
• Poetry: 'The Merry, Merry Bells of Yule' by Lord Alfred Tennyson (q.v.) with illustration: 'Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) [161]; 'The Bells of New Year's Eve' extract from In Memoriam by Alfred Tennyson (q.v.) [161]-162; 'King Christmas' (unattributed) 166-167; 'Advice About New Year' (unattributed) 170; 'A Motto for the New Year' by Johann von Goethe (q.v.) 170; 'To a Friend, New Year's Day 1790' by Robert Burns (q.v.) with illustration: 'Robert Burns (1759-1796)' (q.v.) 171; 'The Norman Baron' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (q.v.) with illustration: 'A Castle: The Birthplace of William the Conqueror' from steroegraph lent by Mr A. K. Zimmerman Australasian representative of Underwood and Underwood, 174-175; 'Christmas Bells' (unattributed) 176.
• Fiction: 'Scrooge's Christmas Day' extract from The Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (q.v.) with two (unattributed) illustrations: 'Scrooge in His Room Before the Spirits Visited Him' and 'Tiny Tim and His Father', 162-166; 'Home for Christmas' by American author Washington Irving (q.v.) with three (unattributed) illustrations: 'The Schoolbays', 'There's John! And There's Carlo! And There's Bantam!' and 'A Neat Country Seat', 167-169.
• Prose: 'Christmas in Germany' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (q.v.) 169-170; 'An Interview With the Duke of Wellington' by the Duke of Argyle in T. P.'s Weekly, 175-176.
• Supplement: 'Scholarships [for] Continuation Schools' [and] Agricultural High Schools' (unattributed) [1]-4.