Cirrus@Austlit

Only literary material by Australian authors is individually indexed.

Other material in this issue includes:

• First page picture: 'About to Begin the New School Year' accompanying poem: 'Bill', [1].
• Editor's Note: 'Education Department's War Relief Fund' with picture: 'Homeless' from a painting by R. Jack reproduced in Bibby's Annual, 14.
• Poetry: 'Bill' by John Stuart Blackie (q.v.) with (unattributed) photograph: 'About to Begin the New School Year', [1]-2; 'Where Do the Old Years Go?' by American author Margaret E. Sangster (1838-1912) 4-5; 'Morn Amid the Mountains' by American teacher and poet Henry Van Dyke, 12; 'A New Year's Question' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (q.v.) 16.
• Fiction: 'The Two bundles (A New Year's Story)' (unattributed) with (unattributed) illustration: 'This Bundle Holds a List of All the Bad Things', 2-3; 'What Kept the Chimney Waiting' by Annie H. Donnell with (unattributed) illustration: 'On a Little Nest Sat a Little Bird', 5-6.
• Non-Fiction: 'How the Days Got Their Names' (unattributed) 8; 'How Australia Got Its Merino Sheep' (unattributed) from the South Australian Children's Hour with portrait: 'Captain John Macarthur, the Founder of the Pastoral Industry of Australasia' and (unattributed) photograph: 'A Flock of Merino Sheep', 9-11.
• Prose: 'The Donkey and the Dog' extract from La Fontaine's Fables, 4; 'The True Story of Whittington' (unattributed) with illustration from Dick Whittington and Other Stories: 'Turn Again, Whittington, Lord Mayor of London!', 6-8; 'About Days' two quotations: 'Seize the Moment' (unattributed) and 'The Best Day in the Year' by Ralph Waldo Emerson (q.v.) 11.
• Song: 'Morning Hymn' words by Rebecca J. Weston and music by D. Batchelor, 15; 'Nature's Voices' words by Bernard O'Dowd (q.v.)16.
• Supplement: 'The School Paper : Grades V and VI (1915) Contents', i-iv.