AustLit

Only literary material by Australian authors is individually indexed.

Other material in this issue includes:

• Editor's Note: 'Children's Hospital Bazaar' program outline for September 7, 16.
• Poetry: 'The English Flag' extract by Rudyard Kipling (q.v.) from Barrack-Room Ballads, 5-6; Untitled extract of four lines from Abt Volger by Robert Browning (q.v.) about goodness, 8; 'Town and Country' extract from Selected Poems by Annie Matheson (1853-1924) 10; 'Gleanings' two poems: 'Laus Deo' in The Shorter Poems of Robert Bridges by English poet Robert Bridges (q.v.) and 'G. W. Steevens' from The Friend by Rudyard Kipling (q.v.), 16.
• Fiction: 'Mr Winkle's Ride' extract from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens (q.v.) 9-10.
• Non-Fiction: 'China's Intercourse With Western Nations' (unattributed) history of China beginning with the first European encroachment, with two maps: 'China' from Hazell's Annual and another untitled showing railways and roads around Pekin and Tientsin, 2-5; 'The Air We Breathe' continuation of extracts from The Home Messenger by Agnes Giberne with two (unattributed) illustrations: 'Sea Breeze' and 'Land Breeze' 7-8; 'The Melbourne Sewerage System' part of continuation by F. C. Eddy with two pictures: 'Melbourne in 1839: From the South Side of the River Yarra' drawn by A. Adamson and (unattributed) photograph: 'Part of Melbourne in 1900: Photographed From the South Side of the River Yarra' 11-15.
• Prose: 'How Lord Roberts and His Son Won Their Victoria Crosses' (unattributed) 15-16.