Cirrus@Austlit

Only literary material by Australian authors is individually indexed.

Other material in this issue includes:

• First page picture: 'Residence of the Manager of the Saw and Timber Seasoning Mills, Powelltown, Victoria' accompanying poem: 'The Wind's Message', [65].
• Editor's Note: 'The Feature of Arbor Day, 1918, Should Be the Planting of Memorial Trees', [65]; 'Our Schools and the War' with photograph: 'Wholemeal Biscuits: A Gift from the Australian Branch of the British Red Cross', 79.
• Poetry: 'What the Wood Said' by American poet Frank L. Stanton (q.v.) with (unattributed) picture: 'As He Rocked Himself in his Little Arm Chair', 71-72; 'A Prayer for Parents and Teachers' by Molly Whitford Anderson, 76.
• Fiction: 'Darby and Joan and the Garden' (unattributed) extract from My Magazine, 69-71; 'Farmer Welfare's Mistletoe' (unattributed) extract from The School Newspaper with photograph: 'The Hanging Mistletoe (Loranthus pendulus) Growing on a Eucalypt-Red Ironbark' courtesy of the State Forests Department, 77-79.
• Non-Fiction: 'Structure and Uses of Trees' (unattributed) with (unattributed) diagrams: 'Sections of the Trunks of Trees', 67-69; 'Rearing Silkworms for Profit' extract from article submitted by Bertha van Nooten, staff member of the Albert Park School with five (unattributed) pictures: 'Common Silkworm: Larva on the Leaf of a Mulberry tree', 'Larva Beginning to Spin its Cocoon', 'A Cocoon', 'Pupa or Chrysalid' and 'Lattice Frame on Which the Larvae Spin Their Cocoons (China)', 72-76.
• Prose: 'Duty' by Sir Walter Raleigh (q.v.) 80.
• Song: 'The Planting of the Tree' (unattributed) 80.