Cirrus@Austlit

Only literary material by Australian authors is individually indexed.

Other material in this issue includes:

• First page picture: 'Peoples of the British Empire' from My Magazine, [49].
• Editor's Note: 'Thursday 24th of May is Empire Day', [49]; 'War Relief and the Schools' with photograph: 'In the Desert: Sharing a Present From Home' by Sapper J. S. Bickford, 63-64.
• Poetry: 'The Sceptre of the Sea' by English author Herman Charles Merivale (1839=1906) 55-56.
• Non-Fiction: 'What is the British Empire?' (unattributed) 50-51.
• Prose: 'The Empire's Capital' with four (unattributed) photographs: 'The Monument of the Great Fire, 1666, London', 'The Tower Bridge, London', 'The Tower of London' and 'Westminster Bridge', 52-55; 'The Man-O-War's Man' (unattributed) extract from the New Zealand School Journal with three pictures: 'Vessels of the Fleet' from The Leader, 'A Three Decker of Nelson's Time, About the Middle of George III's Reign' and 'A Warrant Officer and Bluejackets on the Deck of a Battle Ship' from the Australian edition of The Citizen Reader by H. O. Arnold-Forster and C. R. Long (q.v.) 56-59; 'His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales' (unattributed) with two pictures: 'Staff Captain the Prince of Wales in Egypt (March-May 1916) from The Times and 'Buckingham Palace' (unattributed) photograph, 61-63.