Cirrus@Austlit

Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed.

Other material in this issue includes:

• Drama: 'Part of Hamlet's Instructions to the Players' from Hamlet by English playwright William Shakespeare (q.v.), [i]; 'Soliloquy on Sleep' from Henry IV Part II, Act III, sc.i, by William Shakespeare (q.v.), with illus., [i]-ii; 'Mercy' from The Merchant of Venice, Act IV, sc.i, by William Shakespeare (q.v.), ii-iii.
• Poetry: 'The Rhine : Lord Byron to His Sister' from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage by English poet George Gordon, Lord Byron (q.v.), with illus. 'River Rhine, Town of Konigswinter, Southern Extremity of the Siebengebirge, or Seven Mountains', iv-v; 'Nature' from 'Tintern Abbey' by English poet William Wordsworth, v; 'Sand of the Desert in an Hour-Glass' by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (q.v.), with illus. 'A Caravan' and 'Australian Light Horse in the Jordan Valley', vi-vii; 'Hills of Home' by British soldier Lance-Corporal Malcolm Hemphrey, viii; 'How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix' by English poet Robert Browning (q.v.), with illus. 'I poured down his throat our last measure of wine', viii-x; 'The Debt Unpayable' by British poet F. W. Bourdillon (1852-1921), orig. published in The Spectator, London, xi; 'Each and All' by American poet Ralph Waldo Emerson (q.v.), xi-xii