Cirrus@Austlit

Only literary material by Australian authors is individually indexed.

Other material in this issue includes:

• First page picture: 'Spanish Galleons' from a repousse panel by Mr J. R. Tranthim Fryer, Principal of the Swinburne Technical College, Melbourne accompanying poem: 'The Secret of the Sea', [97].
• Editor's Note: 'Helpers' progress report on the supply of comforts to the overseas troops with picture: 'Patient and Nurse' from The Sphere, 108.
• Poetry: 'The Secret of the Sea' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (q.v.) [97]-98; 'The Glove and the Lions' by English poet Leigh Hunt (q.v.) 105-106.
• Fiction: 'Seeds of Kindness: A Tale of the War Relief Gardeners' League, Victoria' (unattributed) continuation with three (unattributed) illustrations: 'A Well Grown Lettuce', 'A Bunch of Radishes' and 'Section of Box in Which to Plant Wattle Seed', 106-108; 'John Carpenter' (unattributed) 109.
• Prose: 'The Fairy Godmother-"ACF": A Story for the Children Who Send by Her So Many Things to the Soldiers' (unattributed) achievements of the Australian Comforts Fund with three (unattributed) photographs: 'Somewhere East of Suez', 'A Storehouse in the Desert' and 'By Desert Railway'102-105.
• Song: 'Where the Bee Sucks' music by Dr Arne (1710-1778) 110-112.
• Supplement: 'The Young Workers' Patriotic Guild: Message to the Children of Victoria' six letters assembled by Frank Tate, i-iv.
• Conundrum: 'Some of "Poor Richard's" Sayings' extract from Poor Richard's Almanac, 110.