AustLit

Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed.

Other material in this issue includes:

• First Page Picture: 'Waves of Shadow over Wheat' (unattributed), [i].
• Poetry: 'The Poet's Song' by English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson (q.v.), [i]; 'The Universal Prayer' by English poet Alexander Pope (q.v.), v; 'Hymn Before Sunrise in the Vale of Chamouni' by English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (q.v.), with illus. 'Chamonix, or Chamouni, and the Mont Blane Range, in the South-east of France', vi-viii; 'David's Lament for Absalom' by American poet N. P. [Nathaniel Parker] Willis (1806-1867), with illus. of marble statue by Italian Renaissance artist Michael Angelo Buonarroti (1475-1564), viii-x; 'Advice to a Young Man' from 'Clifton Chapel' in The Island Race by English poet [Sir Henry] Newbolt (q.v.), x; 'The Answer' by Canadian poet Dr. Wilfred Campell (1858-1918), xiii; 'The Man of the Musket' (unattributed) [by American poet Howard S. Taylor], xiv; 'Excerpts from "The Deserted Village" : I. - The Life of the Village' by Anglo-Irish poet Oliver Goldsmith (q.v.), with illus. 'Goldsmith at Lissoy' by Gowan Dobson, xv-xvi; 'A Motto for the New Year' (unattributed), xvi.
• Drama: 'Songs of Shakespeare', a collection of verse from The Tempest by English playwright, William Shakespeare (q.v.), with illus. 'From a Drawing by Daniel Maclise [Irish painter, 1806-1870], in the Memorial Gallery, Stratford-on-Avon, the Birthplace of Shakespeare', ii-iii; 'Henry V.'s Address to His Soldiers at the Siege of Harfleur' from Henry V. by William Shakespeare (q.v.), with illus. 'Follow your spirit!', iii-iv.