AustLit

Only literary material by Australian authors is individually indexed.

Other material in this issue includes:

• First page picture: 'T. Campbell' (q.v.) with autograph accompanying poem, [97].

• Editor's Note: 'Scholarship Winners' list of twenty six scholarship winners from Tooronga Road School, Malvern with photograph: 'Scholarship Winners (1905) State School No. 2586, Malvern, Their Teacher and the Head Teacher of the School' 112.

• Poetry: 'The Pleasures of Hope' extract by British poet Thomas Campbell (q.v.) [97]-98; 'The Rainy Day' by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (q.v.) 111.

• Fiction: 'A Misunderstanding' by French novelist Alexander Dumas (1802-1870) 98-100; 'The Destruction of Pompeii' extract from The Last Days of Pompeii by British novelist Lord Lytton (1803-1873) with six (unattributed) illustrations: 'Ruins of the Ampitheatre, Pompeii', 'A Fountain in Pompeii', 'The Remains of the Forum or Market Place, Pompeii' 'The Flight From Pompeii: A Magnificent Piece of Statuary in a Pavilion with Several Other Statues, Public Gardens, Ballarat', 'The Street of Tombs, Pompeii' and 'Herculaneum as Revealed by the Excavators' 101-107; 'Cousin Deborah's Legacy' anonymous, 108-110.

• Prose: 'Clever Boys' by Barnaby, 111.

• Notices: 'Regular Attendance' at schools in south west Victoria, 112.