AustLit

Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed.

Other material in this issue includes:

• First Page Picture: 'How the Year 1916 Opened for the British Empire', 'adapted from a recruiting poster, designed by Lt.-Gen. Sir R. S. S. Baden-Powell [q.v.]', [1].
• Poetry: 'Stanzas from "The Bended Bow" by Felicia Hemans (q.v.), 5; 'In Praise of Fallen Patriots' by English poet, Alfred, Lord Tennyson (q.v.), 9; 'Indian National Anthem : Bande Mataram (Hail, Motherland) by Bankim Chandra, trans. by Mr. Lee of the Indian Civil Service, 15.
• Prose: 'Britain Chooses the Path to Victory', by a 'neutral correspondent', 3-4; 'The Warring Nations : A Review of the Situation at the End of 1915', by Lord Sydenham (1848-1933), former Governor of Victoria, 6-7; 'Progress of the War' (unattributed), with illus. 'Wounded Soldiers of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps at an Interesting Piece of Work in England', 7-9; 'Lemnos' by Official Reporter with the Australian Expeditionary Force, Captain C. E. W. Bean (q.v.), with illus. 'Australians Making Friends with Grecian Islanders', 'Mudros Bay, Lemnos Island, 'A Part of the Encampment at Mudros Bay, Lemnos Island, 'The S. S. Southland' and map of 'The Aegean Sea or Grecian Archipelago', 10-14; 'The Education Department's War Relief Fund' (unattributed), with illus. 'Sloyd Center, California Gully School, Bendigo : Sample of the Thousands of Articles, Made at the Sloyd Centers of Victoria, for Wounded Soldiers', 15-16.