AustLit

Only literary material by Australian authors is individually indexed.

Other material in this issue includes:

• Editor's Note: 'Annual Demonstration of State School Swimming Clubs' photograph: 'Winners of the Girls' Squadron Championship, Williamstown Central School [showing students] Lily McAlister, Eileen Grinlington, Lilian Ballard [and] Hilda Bradley' 16.
• Poetry: 'A Song for New Year's Eve' extract from In Memoriam by English poet Alfred Tennyson (q.v.) with (unattributed) picture: 'Alfred, Lord Tennyson' [1]-2; 'The Barefoot Boy' by American poet John Greenleaf Whittier (q.v.) with illustration of Whittier autographed: 'Thine Truly John G Whittier' (unattributed) 7-8; 'Something Each Day' extract from Dublin Freeman, 14.
• Fiction: 'How Arnaud Redeemed Himself' extract from St. Nicholas, 14-15.
• Non-Fiction: 'Australian Plant Life: Proteaceae or Proteads' by G. H. Adcock editor of The Journal of Agriculture of Victoria with five illustrations: 'Flower of the Common Honeysuckle (Banksia marginata) from Ferdinand von Mueller's (q.v.) Botanic Teachings, 'The Silky Oak (Grevillea robusta) from Maiden's The Forest Flora of New South Wales, 'Hakea laurina' (unattributed), 'Hakea grammataphylla' photograph by G. H. A. and 'The Waratah (Telopea speciosissima)' from Maiden's Illustrated Flowering Plants and Ferns, 9-13.
• Prose: 'The Two Roads' by German author Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825) 2-3; 'The Gorgon's Head' extract from A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys for continuation by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) with three illustrations: 'Danae and Perseus in the Chest' adapted from Charles Kingsley's The Heroes, 'Head of the Gorgon Medusa on an Ancient Coin' (unattributed) and 'The Gorgon Medusa' from a marble head at Munich, 3-7.
• Notices: 'Jane Duff Testimonial Fund' extension of time for receiving donations until February 28 1905.