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Issue Details: First known date: 1926... no. 310 March 1926 of The School Paper : Grades VII and VIII est. 1896-1932 The School Paper : 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: 'The Burke and Wills Monument, Melbourne' from 'an old engraving' lent by Mr. J. G. Roberts (q.v.), [17].
    • Poetry: 'The Patriot : An Old Story' by English poet Robert Browning (q.v.), 22-23; 'Nature's Temple' by English poet W. E. Littlewood (1831-1886), with photograph 'A Bush Scene, Victoria' showing the tourist track at Sherwood, near Upper Ferntree Gully, from the Victorian Railways, 25; 'The House by the Side of the Road' by American poet Sam Walter Foss (q.v.), with unattributed illus., 27-28; 'Our Deeds Live After Us' by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (q.v.), 28.
    • Fiction: 'Captain Harvey' by French novelist Victor Hugo (q.v.), with illus. 'Swinging the Boat', 26-27.
    • Prose: 'Roman Fountains' by English essayist and poet Alice Meynell (q.v.), 23; 'Turning the Grindstone' by American statesman Benjamin Franklin (q.v.), with illlus. 'I could not get away', 24; 'The Schoolmaster and the Conqueror' by Scottish statesman Lord Brougham (q.v.), with portraits of Johann Heinrich Pestolozzi (1745-1827) and Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), 29-30; 'The Brahman and the Rogues' by British essayist Thomas Babington Macaulay (q.v.), with portrait of the author, 30-31.
    • Non-Fiction: 'A Day of Disaster' (unattributed), regarding Victorian bushfires, 14 February, 1926, with map of Eastern Victoria, 31; 'Mr. Long Retires' (unattributed), regarding the retirement of Mr. Charles Richard Long (q.v.), editor of the School Paper for thirty years, with photograph of the retiree, 32.
  • Preceding or following each piece is a short glossary of the longer words contained therein, as well as notes about people and places mentioned.

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Gonei"In Collins Street standeth a statue tall,", Adam Lindsay Gordon , single work poetry (p. [17]-18)
Running the Brumbies, single work children's fiction children's
Jim Cornish, Queensland Bill, Old Scotton, Black Joe and the first-person narrator head out to run a mob of brumbies. When the mob shoots over a precipice and Jim follows them, they think that Jim has been killed. Although the brumbies give the bushmen the slip, the group discovers Jim had been propelled into a soft bush and he emerges with a broken arm, ready within a week to participate in the yarding of the brumbies after a second attempt.
 (p. 19-22)
Note:
  • Editor's note : 'From the Fourth Book of Brooks's [q.v.] New Australian Readers [c.1898].
  • With illus. : 'On the Lookout' by G. R. Ashton (q.v.), and 'Like a Torrent in Flood-time' by F. T. Mahony (q.v.).
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