Cirrus@Austlit

Only literary material by Australian authors is individually indexed.

Other material in this issue includes:

• First page picture: 'Wild Parrots at Breakfast, Mackay, Queensland' photograph by Mr Cornwall accompanying poem: 'Birds, Joyous Birds of the Wandering Wing', [129].
• Editor's Note: '27th October is Bird Day in Eastern Australia' [129]; 'Letters from Home and from the War Zone' with (unattributed) photograph: 'At a Victorian School: Working for the Soldiers', 141-142.
• Poetry: 'Vogelweid the Minnesinger' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (q.v.) 131-132; 'The Kingfisher' extract from The School Journal, New Zealand with photograph: 'The Kingfisher' by Mr A. H. Mattingley, 135; 'Raining' by American poet Robert Loveman (1864-1923) 142; 'The Busy Bee' (unattributed) 142; 'The Crocodile' parody of the poem The Busy Bee by Lewis Carroll (q.v.) 142.
• Fiction: 'Seeds of Kindness: A Tale of the War Relief Gardeners' League, Victoria' (unattributed) continuation with two (unattributed) photographs: 'Stages in the Making of a Buttonhole Bouquet' and 'Some Material for Buttonhole Bouquets', 138-141.
• Prose: 'The Bush Bird as a Guest' (unattributed) with three pictures: 'Group of Stucco (Plaster) Bird Houses' from Manual Training and Vocational Education, Peoria Illinois, 'Bird House Made From a Hollow Log' from American Forestry and 'Bird House Made from a Chalk Box' from American Forestry, 130-131; 'Taming the Wild Birds' (unattributed) extract from The Children's Hour, South Australia with photograph: 'Watching the Birds' by Mrs Innes, 132-134.
• Song: 'It Was a Lover and His Lass' words from As You Like It by William Shakespeare (q.v.) and music by Thomas Morley (1563-1604) 143-144.