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Notes

Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed.

Other material in this issue includes:
- First Page Picture: 'View of the Mitchell River between Bairnsdale and Wy Yung, Gippsland, Victoria' (unattributed) accompanying poem: 'Bairnsdale' [97].
- Poetry: 'A Fairy Song From Shakespeare : The Flower Fairy Sings', from 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' by William Shakespeare (q.v.) illustrated, 104; 'How to Write a Letter', by Mrs Elizabeth Turner, 109; 'Death' by English author Walter Savage Landor (q.v.) 111.
- Fiction: 'The Two Buckets', (unattributed), 103; 'My Pickwick Slides', illustrated, from 'The Pickwick Papers' by Charles Dickens (q.v.).
- Prose: 'Eyes and Ears', illustrated, from 'The Refugees', by A.C.Doyle, 99-101; 'A Terrible Experience', illustrated, (unattributed), 99-103; 'Charles Dickens, A Famous English Novelist', illustrated, Adapted from 'The School Newspaper', 105-106; 'The Potato', illustrated, (unattributed), 109-110; 'The Bursting of a Dike in Flood-Time' by Charles Kingsley (1819-1875) with (unattributed) diagram: 'Diagram to Show the Action of the Moon and the Sun in Causing Spring Tides and Neap Tides', 110-111.
- Songs: 'When the Rosy Morn' (unattributed) 111-112; 'Great Tom is Cast' (unattributed) 112.
Preceding or following each piece is a short glossary of the longer words contained therein, as well as notes about people and places mentioned, and comments on the metre of poetry. There are also often 'General Notes' which ask the reader questions about the work.