AustLit

Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed.

Other material in this issue includes:

• First Page Picture: Photograph of a temple of the winds, Melbourne Botanical Gardens, [65].
• Fiction: 'The Faithful Worker' (unattributed), a Persian story illus. from The World Book, 68-70; 'The Greedy Blacksmith' by the Brothers Grimm, with illus. 'Washing Day in Fairy Land' by Margaret Ely Webb, 70-73; 'Why the Morning-Glory Climbs' by American teacher and children's author, Sara Cone Bryant (1873-unknown), illus., 77.
• Poetry: 'My Garden' (unattributed), [65]-66; 'Windy Nights' by Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson (q.v.), 70; 'The Child Stealer' by English writer Frances Cornford (1886-1960), 73; 'If I Had a Broomstick' by Irish poet, Patrick R. Chalmers (1872-1942), 75; 'The Jolly Welshmen', a traditional Welsh rhyme, illus. from Blackie's English Study Readers, 76; 'The Northern Seas' by English poet Mary Howitt (1798-1888), illus. 'The Fierce White Bear', 78; 'Our Debt to the Trees' (unattributed) 79.
• Drama: 'A Knotty Problem', adapted from Through the Golden Windows by Pulitzer Prize winning American author, Laura E. Richards (1850-1943), illus. 'The Boyhood of Raleigh' by Sir John Millais (1829-1896), 74-75.
• Science: 'Wonderful Seeds' (unattributed) illus., 66-68; 'June' (unattributed) 79.
• Song: 'Cradle Song', music by Brahms, words by Florence Hoare, 80.

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.