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Issue Details: First known date: 1924... no. 294 September 1924 of The School Paper : Grades VII and VIII est. 1896-1932 The School Paper for Grades VII and VIII
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Notes

  • Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed.

    Other material in this issue includes:

    • First Page Picture: 'A Pool on the Upper Yarra in Wattle Time' from The Leader, Melbourne, [113].
    • Poetry: 'A Day in June' by American poet James Russell Lowell (q.v.), with portrait of the author, 116-118; 'Kindness', a collection of short pieces by William Shakespeare (q.v.), William Wordsworth (q.v.), Alice Carey (1820-1871) and Ralph Waldo Emerson (q.v.), 123. 'Baby' by Scottish poet Dr. George Macdonald (q.v.), with illus. 'Bonnie Australian Babies : Australia's Health is Australia's Wealth', with portraits of Mary Patricia Wilson of Royston Avenue, East Bentleigh, Victoria (the 'Empire's Bonniest Babe') and other Australian finalists : Ronald Edward Grey (W.A.), Beryl Stalder (N.S.W.), Donald Badman (S.A.), and Hazel Jean Underhill (Q.), 124-125.
    • Prose: 'Kindness', a collection of short pieces by Ian McLaren and Charles Dickens (q.v.), 123.
    • Fiction: 'The Ways of Uncle Podger' by English humorist Jerome K. Jerome (1859-1927), with illus. 'The Fall of Uncle Podger', 114-116; 'Master and Scholar' from The Old Curiosity Shop by English novelist Charles Dickens (q.v.), with illus. 'Stopping there to make a rustic bow' by Charles Green, 125-128.
    • Non-Fiction: 'Friendly Societies', by the Australian Friendly Societies of Victoria, with illus. 'Deeds, Not Words', 118-121; 'Save Our Wild Flowers' (unattributed), with photographs : 'Flower of the Scented Paper-Bark Tree', 'Blue Pincushions', and 'Flower of the Wedding-Bush', and 'The Kangaroo Apple' by Mr. F. J. Bishop, and drawing, 'Nodding Greenhead Orchid' by Miss G. Coleman, 121-123.
    • Notices: 'Enrolment at Central School', 'The Jane Duff [q.v.] Fund', 'Spelling Tests', (unattributed), 128.
    • Supplement: 'Made in Australia : 7. Metal Goods' by the Made in Australia Council, 312 Flinders Street, Melbourne, with illustrations: 'Reference Map : Principal Australian Metals' (unattributed); 'Broken Hill, N.S.W.' from Australia Unlimited by [E. J.] Brady (q.v.); and 'Iron Knob, S.A. : A Mountain of Iron Ore' from Intermediate Geography (1924) by Australian educator [Albert Victor George] James, i-iv.
  • Preceding or following each piece is a short glossary of the longer words contained therein, as well as notes about people and places mentioned.

Contents

* Contents derived from the 1924 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Where the Wattle Growsi"Kookaburra with his laughter", W. J. MacDonald , single work poetry (p. [113])
An Australian Symphonyi"Not as the songs of other lands", George Essex Evans , single work extract poetry (p. 121)

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