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Issue Details: First known date: 1930... 1930 Victorian Readers : Seventh Book
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Notes

  • Epigraph: 'Triumph', an extract from the poem 'My Triumph' by American Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier (q.v.).
  • Epigraph: 'He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comfortor' (Isaac Barrow, 1630-1677).
  • Frontispiece: From a painting by Sir John Longstaff (q.v.), 'Breaking the News'.

Contents

* Contents derived from the Melbourne, Victoria,:Victoria Education Department , 1930 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
National Anthem for Federated Australia An Australian Anthem An Australian National Anthemi"Maker of earth and sea,", J. Brunton Stephens , single work poetry (p. 1-2)
Note: With title: An Australian Anthem. Preceded by photograph of 'Commonwealth Houses of Parliament, Canberra'.
Wanderersi"As I rode in the early dawn,", James Hebblethwaite , single work poetry (p. 5-6)
Note: Illustration: 'Three loggers in a row' by Allan T. Bernaldo (q.v.).
Christmas in the Early Days Christmas in the Bush, Edward S. Sorenson , single work essay (p. 7-12)
A Bush Fire, Henry Kingsley , extract novel (p. 13-17)
Wordsi"Words are deeds. The words we hear", Charles Harpur , single work poetry (p. 25)
Branding Cattle, Conrad H. Sayce , extract children's fiction children's adventure (p. 25-29)
Note: Illustration by Allan T. Bernaldo (q.v.).
Eagles-Nest Float, E. J. Banfield , single work essay (p. 30-32)
Note: With title: Eagle's Nest Float. Prefaced by quotation from Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.
The Plough The Plowi"From Egypt behind my oxen, with their stately step and slow,", Will H. Ogilvie , single work poetry (p. 33-35)
Note: With title: The Plough. Illustration by W. S. Wemyss (q.v.).
The Great Barrier Reef, E. J. Brady , extract biography travel (p. 44-47)
Note: Illustration by W. S. Wemyss (q.v.).
A Sylvan Solitudei"Here the magpie loves to croon", Frank Samuel Williamson , extract poetry (p. 47)
The Skater and the Wolves, Charles Whitehead , single work children's fiction children's (p. 55-59)
Note: Illustration by John Rowell (q.v.).
The Warrigali"Through forest boles the storm-wind rolls,", Henry Kendall , single work poetry (p. 60-62)
Note: Illustration by John Rowell (q.v.).
The Old Whim Horsei"He's an old grey horse, with his head bowed sadly,", Edward Dyson , single work poetry (p. 69-71)
Note: Illustration: 'He feels the strain on his untouched shoulder' by John Rowell (q.v.).
Anzac Dayi"The scarlet poppy burns again,", Capel Boake , single work poetry (p. 74-75)
Note: From The Australasian.
The Ballad of the Calliopei"By the far Samoan shore,", A. B. Paterson , single work poetry (p. 103-107)
Lonely Places, R. H. Croll , single work prose travel (p. 107-113)
Note: With epigraph by Bernard O'Dowd (q.v.).
Verselets : 3 : A Song of Roving A Song of Roving A-Rovingi"When the sap runs up the tree,", Victor J. Daley , single work poetry (p. 116-118)
Note: Illustration by John Rowell (q.v.).
Get Ready, Inniskillings!i"Our country needs a message", Woomera , single work poetry (p. 127-129)
Note: From The Australasian. Illustrated with painting by J. Charles Dollman.
Nighti"Hark how the tremulous night-wind is passing in joy-laden sighs!", J. Brunton Stephens , extract poetry (p. 222)
Note: First two stanzas included here.
* Contents derived from the Melbourne, Victoria,:Victoria Education Department , 1940 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
National Anthem for Federated Australia An Australian Anthem An Australian National Anthemi"Maker of earth and sea,", J. Brunton Stephens , single work poetry (p. 1-2)
Note: With title: An Australian Anthem. Preceded by photograph of 'Commonwealth Houses of Parliament, Canberra'.
Wanderersi"As I rode in the early dawn,", James Hebblethwaite , single work poetry (p. 5-6)
Note: Illustration: 'Three loggers in a row' by Allan T. Bernaldo (q.v.).
Christmas in the Early Days Christmas in the Bush, Edward S. Sorenson , single work essay (p. 7-12)
Note: With title: Christmas in the Early Days.
A Bush Fire, Henry Kingsley , extract novel (p. 13-17)
Branding Cattle, Conrad H. Sayce , extract children's fiction children's adventure (p. 26-30)
Note: Illustration by Allan T. Bernaldo (q.v.).
The Plough The Plowi"From Egypt behind my oxen, with their stately step and slow,", Will H. Ogilvie , single work poetry (p. 36-38)
Note: With title: The Plough. Illustration by W. S. Wemyss (q.v.).
The Great Barrier Reef, E. J. Brady , extract biography travel (p. 52-55)
Note: Illustration by W. S. Wemyss (q.v.).
A Sylvan Solitudei"Here the magpie loves to croon", Frank Samuel Williamson , extract poetry (p. 55)
The Skater and the Wolves, Charles Whitehead , single work children's fiction children's (p. 69-73)
Note: Illustration by John Rowell (q.v.).
The Warrigali"Through forest boles the storm-wind rolls,", Henry Kendall , single work poetry (p. 74-76)
Note: Illustration by John Rowell (q.v.).
Anzac Dayi"The scarlet poppy burns again,", Capel Boake , single work poetry (p. 86-87)
Note: From The Australasian.
The Man from Snowy Riveri"There was movement at the station, for the word had passed around", A. B. Paterson , single work poetry (p. 117-121)
Verselets : 3 : A Song of Roving A Song of Roving A-Rovingi"When the sap runs up the tree,", Victor J. Daley , single work poetry (p. 128-130)
Note: Illustration by John Rowell (q.v.).
The Old Whim Horsei"He's an old grey horse, with his head bowed sadly,", Edward Dyson , single work poetry (p. 147-149)
Note: Illustration: 'He feels the strain on his untouched shoulder' by John Rowell (q.v.).
Nighti"Hark how the tremulous night-wind is passing in joy-laden sighs!", J. Brunton Stephens , extract poetry (p. 220)
Note: First two stanzas included here.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Victoria Education Department , 1930 .
      Printed by H. J. Green
      Extent: vii, 246p.p.
      Edition info: 1st ed.
      Description: illus.
      Note/s:
      • Only literary material by Australian individually authors indexed in the contents list below.

        Other material in this reader includes:

      • Poetry: 'Love Thy Neighbour' by English poet Leigh Hunt (1784-1859) (original title 'Abou ben Adhem') 12; 'Rosabelle' by Scottish poet Sir Walter Scott (q.v.) illustration by W. S. Wemyss (q.v.), 18-20; 'Sea-Fever' by English Poet Laureate John Masefield (q.v.) 29-30; 'The Burial of Moses' by Irish hymnist Mrs [Cecil Francis] Alexander (1823-1895) 41-43; 'The Spacious Firmament' by English essayist Joseph Addison (1672-1719) 48; extract from 'Britons Beyond the Seas' by English poet, Harold Begbie (q.v.) (1871-1929) 52-53; 'Britain and America' by English Poet Laureate Alfred Austin (q.v.) (original title 'To America'), 54-55; 'Oh Captain! My Captain!' by American poet Walt Whitman (q.v.) 76-77; 'To a Waterfowl' by American poet William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878), illustration by John Rowell (q.v.), 78-80; 'Rest After Toil' by Sir Walter Scott 92; 'The Moon is Up' by Alfred Noyes (q.v.) 93; 'Drake's Drum' by English poet Sir Henry Newbolt (q.v.), illustrations by John Rowell (q.v.), 95-96; extract from 'The English Flag' by English author Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) 99-102; extract from 'The Joys of the Road' by Canadian essayist, editor, and poet William Bliss Carman (q.v.) 114-116; 'Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth' by English poet Arthur H. Clough (1819-1861) 120; extract from 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' by English poet Thomas Gray (q.v.) 121-124; 'The Music-Makers' by Irish poet A. W. E. O'Shaughnessy (q.v.) (original title 'Ode') 132-135; 'The Parting of Marmion and Douglas', extract from 'Marmion' by Sir Walter Scott, 140-142; 'The Poor Fisher Folk' by French poet Victor Hugo (1802-1885) (original title 'Il est nuit. La cabane est pauvre' trans. by H. W. Alexander as 'How Good Are The Poor') 142-147; 'Change', extract from 'In Memoriam', st. XCCIII, by English poet Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) 149; 'The Forsaken Merman' by English poet Matthew Arnold (1822-1888), illustration by John Rowell (q.v.), 155-160; 'The Storm', extract from 'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' by English poet George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) 166-167; 'The Bugle Song' (original title 'The Princess: The Splendour Falls on Castle Walls' by Alfred Tennyson 167; 'The Cloud' by English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), illustration by John Rowell (q.v.), 171-175; 'Cloud Pictures', extract from Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare (1564-1616) 175; 'Waterloo' by Lord Byron 178-180; 'Crossing the Bar' by Alfred Tennyson 189; 'The Patriot' by Robert Browning (1819-1889) 189-190; 'Eve Addresses Adam', extract from 'Paradise Lost' by English poet John Milton (1608-1674) 194; extract from 'Morte D'Arthur' by Alfred Tennyson, illustration by John Rowell (q.v.), 202-208.

      • Prose: 'Sir Roger at Church' by English essayist Joseph Addison (1672-1719) 2-4; 'Ants and Their Slaves' by French historian Jules Michelet (1798-1874) 49-52; 'The Landing of the Anzacs', 62-69, and 'Leaving Anzac', 72-74, extracts from Gallipoli by English Poet Laureate John Masefield (q.v.); 'A Noble Aspiration' from the Second Inaugural Address by Abraham Lincoln 76; 'Universal Peace' by American Civil War statesman, Charles Sumner (1811-1874) 77-78; 'Swallows' by English author and editor of The Clarion, Robert Blatchford (1851-1943) (with epigraph from Itylus by Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873-1909) 97-98; 'The Earth Veil by English writer John Ruskin (1819-1900) 119-120; 'Toil' (an extract from 'The Nobility of Labour' in The American Union Speaker by John D. Philbrick 1865) by Dr. Orville Dewey (attributed to Thomas Carlyle) 121; 'Last Leaves from Scott's Diary' by Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912) (extract from Scott's Last Expedition ed. Leonard Huxley 1913; with facsimile of final diary page) 124-127; 'Above the Clouds', an extract from Teneriffe, An Astronomer's Experiment: or, Specialities of a Residence Above the Clouds (1858) by Scottish Astronomer Royal, Piazzi Smyth (1819-1900) 129-132; 'Traces of Ocean', an extract from First Impressions of England and Its People, by Scottish geologist Hugh Miller (1802-1856) 148-149; 'The Finding of Livingstone', extract from How I Found Livingston, by Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904) 168-171; 'The Seeing Hand', from The World I Live In, by Helen Keller (1880-1968) 176-177; 'The Hand', an extract from The Five Gateways of Knowledge (1856) by Scottish chemist and natural philsopher, Dr. George Wilson (1818-1859) 209-212.

      • Fiction: 'Mr Winkle on Skates' from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens (1812-1870) 20-24; 'Doubting Castle and Giant Despair' from The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan with print from etching by William Strang, 36-40; 'Amyas Leigh and His Revenge', extract from Westward Ho! by English clergyman and novelist, Charles Kingsley (1819-1875) 81-92; extract from 'A Rill from the Town Pump' from Twice-Told Tales by American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) 135-139; 'Hrymir, the Frost Giant', an extract from Glaucus, or The Wonders of the Shore, by Charles Kingsley 150-154; 'Don Quixote and the Windmills', extract from Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (q.v.) 161-165; Archery in the Olden Time' from Ivanhoe, by Sir Walter Scott, illustrations by John Rowell (q.v.), 180-188; 'Perseus and Andromeda' from The Heroes by Charles Kingsley 191-194; 'The Making of the Hammer', a Norse myth by American essayist Hamilton Wright Mabie (1846-1917) 195-201.

      • Drama: 'A Most Lamentable Comedy', abridged and compiled from William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, illustrations by John Rowell (q.v.) 212-222.

      • Aphorisms: 'The Things of Worth' (unattributed) 43; 'In Memoriam' attributed to Euripides (q.v.), 75; 'Life' from 'In Memoriam' by Alfred Tennyson 201.

      • Illustrations provided by Allan T. Bernaldo, John Rowell, W. S. Wemyss (qq.v.), and T. V. Carter.

      Series: y separately published work icon Victorian Readers The Victorian Reading-Books Charles R. Long (editor), Victorian Department of Education (publisher), Melbourne : Victorian Department of Education , 1928-1930 Z1417172 1928-1930 series - publisher anthology

      Preface to Victorian Readers: Eighth Book (1929):

      As the need for a Primer and First Book of modern type and for the provision of more space in The School Paper for articles of current interest had been felt for some time, it was decided last year [1927] to proceed with the preparation of a series of reading books (eight in number) to be published by the Government Printer. The selection of matter and the obtaining of drawings from local artists to illustrate it were entrusted to committees of inspectors and teachers, with Mr. J. C. Lowry, B.A. (a senior inspector of schools), as chairman, and Mr. C. R. Long, M.A., as editor.

      This book - the most advanced of the projected series - is the first to be issued. The main aim of the committee that made the selections for it was to obtain such as possessed literary merit, were informative, were likely to arouse interest, and were suitable as regards the average standard of attainment of the grade or forms for which the book was intended. The young readers were to begin at home, to be taken in imagination to various parts of the Empire, to Europe, and to the United States of America, and thus to gain knowledge of their rich heritage and acquire a well-founded pride of race. The inculcation of sound morality was always to be kept in view, and support given to the creation of a feeling against international strife and to the implanting of a desire for world-wide toleration. The grouping of the selections (story, essay, poem etc.) in order to secure continuity of thought - one selection serving to reveal and support another - was to be aimed at throughout, so that the contents of the book might not be a mere collection of unrelated items, but approach as nearly as possible to a unity.

      The committee was of the opinion that notes and explanations to aid in the securing of intelligent reading would be advantageous, but that they should not be unduly elaborate or very numerous, and that they should form a section at the end of the book. It is hoped that those which have been provided will not only prove helpful in themselves, but will also suggest interesting lines of study (critical, etymological, biographical, historical, geographical, etc) that may be followed up to advantage by some of the young readers, if not by all.

      Though it was recognized that the local production of a series of reading-books to compare favourably with those issued by leading British publishers would not be easy of accomplishment, yet it was believed that the effect of the use of such a series in the schools and in the pupils' homes would make the effort well worth while.

      Number in series: 7
    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Victoria Education Department , 1940 .
      Printed by A. C. Brooks
      Extent: vii, 242p.
      Edition info: 2nd ed.
      Note/s:
      • Content indexing in process.
      • Only literary material by Australian individually authors indexed in the contents list below.

      • Poetry: 'Love Thy Neighbour' by English poet Leigh Hunt (1784-1859) (original title 'Abou ben Adhem') 12; 'Rosabelle' by Scottish poet Sir Walter Scott (q.v.) illustration by W. S. Wemyss (q.v.), 18-20; 'An Incident of the French Camp' by English poet Robert Browning (q.v.) 25-26; 'Sea-Fever' by English Poet Laureate John Masefield (q.v.) 30-31; 'How Horatius Kept the Bridge' by English historian Lord [Thomas Babington] Macauley (1800-1859) 39-43; 'The Burial of Moses' by Irish hymnist Mrs [Cecil Francis] Alexander (1823-1895) 49-51; 'The Pied Piper of Hamelin' by Robert Browning 56-65; 'Oh Captain! My Captain!' by American poet Walt Whitman (q.v.), illustration by R. C. Fricke and editor's note, 88-89; 'To a Waterfowl' by American poet William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878), illustration by John Rowell (q.v.), 93-95; 'The Moon is Up' by Alfred Noyes (q.v.) 108; 'Drake's Drum' by English poet Sir Henry Newbolt (q.v.), illustration by John Rowell (q.v.), 109-110; extract from 'The English Flag' by English author Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) 113-116; extract from 'The Joys of the Road' by Canadian essayist, editor, and poet William Bliss Carman (q.v.) 126-128; 'The Highwayman' by Alfred Noyes 134-139; 'The Parting of Marmion and Douglas', extract from 'Marmion' by Sir Walter Scott, 145-147; 'The Forsaken Merman' by English poet Matthew Arnold (1822-1888), illustration by John Rowell (q.v.), 156-161; 'The Storm', extract from 'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' by English poet George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) 167-168; 'The Bugle Song' (original title 'The Princess: The Splendour Falls on Castle Walls' by Alfred Tennyson (q.v.) 168; 'The Cloud' by English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), illustration by John Rowell (q.v.), 172-176; 'Cloud Pictures', extract from Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare (1564-1616) 176; 'Waterloo' by Lord Byron 179-181; 'Crossing the Bar' by Alfred Tennyson 190; 'The Patriot' by Robert Browning 190-191; 'Eve Addresses Adam', extract from 'Paradise Lost' by English poet John Milton (1608-1674) 195; 'Life' from 'In Memoriam' by English poet Alfred Tennyson 202; extract from 'Morte D'Arthur' by Alfred Tennyson, illustration by John Rowell (q.v.), 203-209.

      • Prose: 'Sir Roger at Church' from The Spectator by English essayist Joseph Addison (1672-1719), with editor's note, 2-4; 'Stalked by a Lion' from The Man-Eaters of Tsavo by Anglo-Irish soldier John Henry Patterson (1865-1947) 31-35; 'Ants and Their Slaves' by French historian Jules Michelet (1798-1874) 66-69; 'The Landing of the Anzacs', illustration by R. C. Fricke, 76-83, and 'Leaving Anzac', 84-86, extracts from Gallipoli by English Poet Laureate John Masefield (q.v.); 'A Noble Aspiration' from the Second Inaugural Address by Abraham Lincoln, with editor's note, 90; 'The Island of Nightingales' by American journalist Edward Bok (1863-1930) 90-93; 'Swallows' by English author and editor of The Clarion, Robert Blatchford (1851-1943) (with epigraph from Itylus by Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873-1909) 111-112; 'Last Leaves from Scott's Diary' by Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912) (extract from Scott's Last Expedition ed. Leonard Huxley 1913; with editor's note and facsimile of final diary page) 131-133; 'The Conquest of the Matterhorn' from Scrambles Amongs the Alps by English mountain climber, Edward Whymper (1840-1911) 150-155; 'The Finding of Livingstone', extract from How I Found Livingston, by Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904) 169-172; 'The Seeing Hand', from The World I Live In, by Helen Keller (1880-1968) 177-178.

      • Fiction: 'Mr Winkle on Skates' from The Pickwick Papers by English novelist Charles Dickens (1812-1870) 20-24; 'Doubting Castle and Giant Despair' from The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan with editor's note and print from etching by William Strang, 44-48; 'Amyas Leigh and His Revenge', extract from Westward Ho! by English clergyman and novelist, Charles Kingsley (1819-1875), illustration by W. S. Wemyss (q.v.), 96-107; 'The Obliging Waiter', extract from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, with editor's note, 122-125; 'Whitewashing the Fence', extract from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by American novelist Mark Twain (q.v.)140-144; 'Don Quixote and the Windmills', extract from Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (q.v.)162-166; Archery in the Olden Time' from Ivanhoe, by Sir Walter Scott, illustrations by John Rowell (q.v.), 181-189; 'Perseus and Andromeda' from The Heroes by Charles Kingsley, with editor's note, 192-195; 'The Making of the Hammer', a Norse myth by American essayist Hamilton Wright Mabie (1846-1917) 196-202.

      • Drama: 'A Most Lamentable Comedy', abridged and compiled from William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, with editor's note, illustrations by John Rowell (q.v.) 210-220.

      • Aphorisms: 'The Things of Worth' (unattributed) 51; 'In Memoriam' attributed to Euripides (q.v.) 87.

      • Illustrations provided by Allan T. Bernaldo, John Rowell, W. S. Wemyss (qq.v.), T. V. Carter and R. C. Fricke.

      Series: y separately published work icon Victorian Readers The Victorian Reading-Books Charles R. Long (editor), Victorian Department of Education (publisher), Melbourne : Victorian Department of Education , 1928-1930 Z1417172 1928-1930 series - publisher anthology

      Preface to Victorian Readers: Eighth Book (1929):

      As the need for a Primer and First Book of modern type and for the provision of more space in The School Paper for articles of current interest had been felt for some time, it was decided last year [1927] to proceed with the preparation of a series of reading books (eight in number) to be published by the Government Printer. The selection of matter and the obtaining of drawings from local artists to illustrate it were entrusted to committees of inspectors and teachers, with Mr. J. C. Lowry, B.A. (a senior inspector of schools), as chairman, and Mr. C. R. Long, M.A., as editor.

      This book - the most advanced of the projected series - is the first to be issued. The main aim of the committee that made the selections for it was to obtain such as possessed literary merit, were informative, were likely to arouse interest, and were suitable as regards the average standard of attainment of the grade or forms for which the book was intended. The young readers were to begin at home, to be taken in imagination to various parts of the Empire, to Europe, and to the United States of America, and thus to gain knowledge of their rich heritage and acquire a well-founded pride of race. The inculcation of sound morality was always to be kept in view, and support given to the creation of a feeling against international strife and to the implanting of a desire for world-wide toleration. The grouping of the selections (story, essay, poem etc.) in order to secure continuity of thought - one selection serving to reveal and support another - was to be aimed at throughout, so that the contents of the book might not be a mere collection of unrelated items, but approach as nearly as possible to a unity.

      The committee was of the opinion that notes and explanations to aid in the securing of intelligent reading would be advantageous, but that they should not be unduly elaborate or very numerous, and that they should form a section at the end of the book. It is hoped that those which have been provided will not only prove helpful in themselves, but will also suggest interesting lines of study (critical, etymological, biographical, historical, geographical, etc) that may be followed up to advantage by some of the young readers, if not by all.

      Though it was recognized that the local production of a series of reading-books to compare favourably with those issued by leading British publishers would not be easy of accomplishment, yet it was believed that the effect of the use of such a series in the schools and in the pupils' homes would make the effort well worth while.

      Number in series: 7
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