Cirrus@Austlit

Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed.

Other material in this issue includes:

• First Page Picture: 'White Gums : A Study in Red Chalk' by Australian artist Hans Heysen (q.v.), [65].
• Poetry: 'Trees' by Irish poet Herbert Trench (1865-1923), 80.
• Literary Studies: 'Shakespeare on the Use of Intoxicating Drink' (unattributed), 77-79.
• Natural Science: 'School Plantations' by William Gay, late senior master of Creswick School of Forestry and superintendent of the School Endowment Plantations scheme, with illus. 'Young Pinus Insignis Trees in Lines in Seed Bed', 'Young Pinus Insignis Trees in Transplant Bed, after Removal from Seed Bed', 'A Fine Stand of Pinus Canariensis Trees, about Thirty-five Years Old', and 'A Double Row of Pinus Insignis Trees as a Protective Belt to a Young Stand of Pinus Mitis', 69-72; 'The Tree' from The Education Gazette, New South Wales, adapted from Manuel de l'Arbre by E. Cardot, published by the Touring Club of France, with illus. 'A Part of Camperdown, Victoria, Showing Well-grown Trees and a Memorial In Memory of the Soldiers of the Empire who Fell in the South African War, 1899-1902', and 'Roadside Trees : The Town of Gisborne, Victoria, in the Distance', 73-76.
• Notices: 'A School Swimming Basin' (unattributed), with illus. 'Opening Ceremony of the Wonthaggi School Swimming Basin', 79; 'A Diligent Young Australian' (unattributed), regarding George Kerr, a student of the Portland Higher Elementary School, who, despite daily travelling seven miles by push-bicycle to school, passed his Intermediate examinations and was congratulated by letter by the Acting Director of Education, Mr. A. Fussell, 80; 'Notices' (unattributed), 80.