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Issue Details:
First known date:
1914...
no.
176
June
1914
of
The School Paper : Grades VII and VIII
est. 1896-1932
The School Paper for Grades VII and VIII
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Notes
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Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed.
Other material in this issue includes:
- First Page Picture: Untitled photograph of logging cart and horses on bush railway track (unattributed). [97].
- Poetry: 'On Planting a Tree' by American poet James Russell Lowell (q.v.), 101-102; 'To Autumn' by English poet, John Keats (q.v.), with portrait of the author, 107-108; 'Our Friends the Trees', a selection of verse American poets R.H. [Richard Henry] Stoddard (q.v.) and Lucy Larcom (1824-1893), 110.
- Prose: 'A Plea for the Planting and Preservation of Trees' abridged from an article in the Journal of the Department of Agriculture of Victoria, by J. M. Reed, I.S.O., Secretary for Lands, with illus. 'The Main Entrance to an Estate in the Western District, Victoria', 'A Cheerless, Unprotected Home', and 'A Cheerful-Looking, Well-Sheltered Home', 98-101; 'The Pine' from Modern Painters by English art critic and essayist John Ruskin (q.v.), with illus. 'Pine-Trees and Cataract of Ice - The Latter a Part of the Gorner Glacier, Monte Rosa, Alps, North of Italy', 108-110; 'Love of Nature' (unattributed) [from the writings of American botanist Luther Burbank (1849-1926)], 112.
- Song: 'The Ash Grove', a Welsh melody, 111-112.
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Preceding or following each piece is a short glossary of the longer words contained therein, as well as notes about people and places mentioned.
Contents
* Contents derived from the 1914 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
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The Passing of the Bushi"They've builded wooden timber tracks",
single work
poetry
(p. 97)A short verse about the building of railway tracks through bushland.Note: Source states author 'anonymous', from Unconditioned Songs.
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The Old Gum-Tree,
single work
children's fiction
children's
(p. 102-107)A moving and lyrical piece in which the narrator relates a story told by an old gum tree about the events in his life, from living freely as a sapling, to providing shelter for 'those black men', to seeing the arrival of 'the first white man', to whom the trees became 'timber'. The old tree takes pride in the use of native timbers for useful purpose, but denounces wanton destruction as a 'crime against the trees'.Note:
- Editor's note: 'Abridged from an article by M.F., in The Age.
- With photographs: 'A Very Old Gum-Tree', 'An Australian Aboriginal Climbing a Gum-Tree', 'A Sawmill' and 'A Giant Gum-Tree Near the Broken River, Northern Victoria'.
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