AustLit

Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed.

Other material in this issue includes:

• First Page Picture: '"The Glory of the Garden": A Path in the Fitzroy Gardens, Melbourne', from a photograph supplied by the Commonwealth Migration and Development Commission, [65].
• Poetry: 'A Glimpse of Eden', from Paradise Lost by English poet John Milton (1608-1674) [65]-66; 'A Wild Garden' by Scottish poet Allan Ramsay (1686-1758), illustration: 'A Charming Wilderness', 68; 'An Old-Time Pleasance' by English poet Leigh Hunt (1784-1859) 73-74; 'Transformation', extract from the Rubaiyat by Persian poet Omar Khayyam, translated by Edward Fitzgerald, 77; 'Kubla Khan' by English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), portrait of the author, 78-79; 'Light the Lamps Up, Lamplighter!' by English poet Eleanor Farjeon (q.v.) 80.
• Drama: 'In the Forest', extract from 'Paddly Pools', a play by Miles Malleson, from One-Act Plays of Today, illustration: 'A Messmate Forest', 69-71.
• Prose: 'A Spanish Garden' by American historian and essayist Washington Irving (1783-1859) 67; 'The Battle of the Ants', extract from Walden, or, Life in the Woods by American naturalist and philosopher Henry D. Thoreau 71-73; 'The Sundial' by English essayist Charles Lamb, illustration: 'A Stately Garden of England', 74-75; 'Some Sundial Mottoes' (unattributed), series of aphorisms about time, 75; 'Arbor Day', extract from American Forests and Forest Life, 78; 'A Prayer at Morning' by R. L. Stevenson (q.v.) 79.
• History: 'Made in Australia: Machines and Structures of Steel and Iron', prepared by the Made in Australia Council, Melbourne, and issued as a supplement to The School Paper under the authority of the Minister of Public Instruction, Victoria, illustrated, i-iv; 'School Endowment Plantations', preceded by a quote from the Pope's Moral Essays, illustration: 'A School Endowment Plantation, Ballarat', 75-77; 'The Shrine of Remembrance' (unattributed), illustrated, 80.
• Natural History: 'What a Garden Teaches', from The World Book, illustrated, 66-67.

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.