AustLit

Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed.

Other material in this issue includes:

• First Page Picture: 'See! There it Goes' by Frank Foxcroft, Bright, Victoria, [129].
• Natural History: 'Some Larger Australian Birds' from An Australian Bird Book by Dr. J. A. Leach (q.v.), with illus. 'An Emu', 'A Brush Turkey', 'A Mallee Hen and A Chick', and 'Quails', 130-132.
• Non-Fiction: 'The Effects of Alcohol' from The School Journal, Education Department of New Zealand, 136-137; 'The British Army in Palestine' by W. T. Massey, from The Daily Telegraph, London, 20 March, 1917, with illus. 'The Terror of the Desert : A Sandstorm' and map of the Mediterranean Sea', 137-139; 'The Need for Thrift, Personal and National' by Earl Kitchener (q.v.), 140-141; 'Britain's Aid to the French Wounded' from France's Day, 1917 : An Appeal for the French Sick and Wounded by English author Laurence Binyon (q.v.), 142; 'Progress of the War' (unattributed), 143; 'War Relief' (unattributed), with illus. 'Photographic Reproduction of the Cheque that Represented the Recent Donation to the British Red Cross Society' and 'An Historic Ceremony, Melbourne Town Hall, 23rd August, 1917', 143-144.
• Note: 'Ablain St. Nazaire' (unattributed), 144.
• Supplements: 'The War Loan' (unattributed), i-ii; 'The Education Department's War Relief Fund : A Brief History of the Movement, and Messages and Letters Connected Therewith' (unattributed), with extracts from correspondence by Her Majesty Queen Alexandra (1844-1925), Lady Margaret Stanley (1875-?), Sir Ronald Munro Ferguson (1860-1934), Sir Arthur, L. Stanley (1875-1931), Sir Alexander Peacock (1861-1933), and H. S. W. Lawson (1875-1952), i-iv.