Cirrus@Austlit

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.