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Issue Details: First known date: 1916... no. 199 May 1916 of The School Paper : Grades VII and VIII est. 1896-1932 The School Paper for Grades VII and VIII

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Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed.
Other material in this issue includes:
- First Page Picture: 'Prime Ministers of the Empire : Rt. Hon. Wm. M. Hughes, Australia; Rt. Hon. Sir R. L. Borden, Canada; Rt. Hon. W. F. Massey, New Zealand' Rt. Hon. H. H. Asquith, Britain; Gen. The Rt. Hon. L. Botha. S. Africa', [49].
- Poetry: 'Sonnet on Shakespeare : For Reading on the 3rd of May - Shakespeare Day in the Schools of the Empire' by English poet Matthew Arnold (q.v.), with illus. 'Medallion Issued by the Shakespearean Tercentenary Committee, England', 58-59; 'British Library' by Canadian poet W. William Campbell (1858-1918), 64; 'Expressions of Shakespeare's Patriotism', a selection of verses by English author William Shakespeare (q.v.), 64.
- Prose: 'The Prime Ministers of the Empire' (unattributed), 50-52; 'Empire Day, 1916', by Marion Rees George, former teacher at Adelaide High School, reprinted from South Australian Education Gazette, 52-53; 'The Written Word', with illus. 'An Imaginary Portrait of the Boy Shakespeare' by British painter James Sant (1820-1916), 54-56; 'King Shakespeare' by British essayist Thomas Carlyle (q.v.), with illus. 'Room in the House owned by John Shakespeare, when his son William was Born (April 23, 1564), 'The Latin Room in the Free Grammar School that Shakespeare Attended', 'Part of London on the South Side of the Thames (Southwark), in the Time of James I', 'Chancel of Trinity Church, Stratford-on-Avon', 54-58; 'The Fruitful Soil' (unattributed), an account of two brothers' (Walter and Henry Brown, aged 13 and 11, from a Gippsland school) efforts to establish a War Relief Garden plot, with illus. 'At work in the school garden', 60-62; 'Progress of the War' (unattributed) with 'Map of a Portion of the Middle East, the Scene of British Operations Against the Turks', 62-63.
- Drama: 'In Praise of England', an excerpt from Richard II, Act II, sc.i, by English author William Shakespeare (q.v.), 54; 'Advice to a Young Man Going Out into the World: The Countess of Rousillon to her Son Bertram [and] Polonius to his Son Laertes', extracts from All's Well that Ends Well, Act I, sc.i and Hamlet, Act I, sc.iii, by William Shakespeare (q.v.), 59-60.
- Correspondence: 'An Acknowledgment from the Front' (unattributed), 63.
- Notes: 'A New Way to Augment the War Relief Fund' (unattributed), 64.
Preceding or following each piece is a short glossary of the longer words contained therein, as well as notes about people and places mentioned.