AustLit

Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed.

Other material in this issue includes:

• First page picture: 'Australian Natives', unattributed montage of three drawings showing an emu, a platypus and a kangaroo, [113].
• Fiction: 'The Tale of the Talkative Tortoise' (concluded from previous issue), from Stories to Tell and How to Tell Them by Elizabeth Clark, with photograph: 'An Australian Land Tortoise' from the Development and Migration Commission, 124-125; 'Evangeline of Acadia' (continued from previous issue, to be continued), adapted from Longfellow's Evangeline, 125-126.
• Drama:
• Prose: 'How the Australian Aborigines Hunted', adapted from The Children's Hour, South Australia, with illustration: 'Hunting', from a drawing by Tommy McRae (q.v.), which was first reproduced in Australian Legendary Tales by K. Langloh Parker (q.v.), 113-112.
• Notices: 'Gould League Competitions', invitation for children to identify, name, and draw various birds, with illustrations of bird feet and heads, 127.

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.