Cirrus@Austlit

Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed.

Other material in this issue includes:

• First Page Picture: 'A Scene on Brighton Beach, Melbourne, Victoria', [1].
• Poetry: 'A Summer Holiday' (unattributed), [1]-2; 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' by English poet Thomas Gray (1716-1771), with illus. 'Stoke Poges (St. Giles's) Church, Buckinghamshire, England', and portrait of the author, 12-15.
• Fiction: 'Shepherding in Victoria in 1852' from Peter Parley's Annual, with illus. 'On the Way to the Diggings', 'A Shepherd's Hut', and 'An Old-time Squatter', 2-6; 'With Brains, Sir' by Scottish author and essayist, Dr. John Brown (1810-1882), 15-16.
• Prose: 'The Man Who Helped Others' (unattributed), 9;
• Natural Science: 'Swat That Fly' (unattributed), with illus. 'Fly throwing back Liquid Food', 'Portion of a Fly's Leg, showing Pads, Claws, and Bristles', 'Bacteria on a Dish of Jelly, Due to a Fly's Walking on it', 10-11.