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Issue Details: First known date: 1908... no. 106 April 1908 of The School Paper for Classes V and VI est. 1898 School Paper for Classes V and VI
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Notes

  • Only literary material by Australian authors is individually indexed.

    Other material in this issue includes:

    • First page picture: 'Lord Byron (1788-1824)' (q.v.) accompanying poem: 'The Ocean', [33].
    • Poetry: 'The Ocean' extract from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage by Lord George Byron (q.v.) with picture: 'Lord Byron (1788-1824)' [33]-34; 'Willow the King' by Irish author Edward Ernest Bowen (1836-1901) with (unattributed) illustration of a cricket wicket, bat and ball, 38-39; 'A Queer School' described as anonymous, 41; 'Perfection Admits of No Addition' extract from King John by William Shakespeare (q.v.) 43; 'A Desert Scene' by American poet William Wetmore Story (q.v.) 48; 'Reputation' extract from Othello by William Shakespeare (q.v.) 48.
    • Drama: 'A Part of Hamlet's Instructions To the Players' extract from Hamlet by William Shakespeare (q.v.) 34.
    • Prose: 'How I Landed in New Zealand' extract from Old New Zealand by 'Pakeha Maori' or Judge Frederick Edward Maning (1812-1883) with photograph: 'Single Sea Canoes of the Maoris' from Nature in New Zealand by J. Drummond and F. W. Hutton and (unattributed) illustration: 'A Chief of the Maoris', 35-38; 'The Shah and the Shepherd Boy' (unattributed) moral piece about pride, 39-41.

Contents

* Contents derived from the 1908 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
The Australian Desert : A Dream of the Futurei"Shunned and dreaded; untrodden, drear;", Ernest Favenc , single work poetry (p. 42-43)
Note: With two illustrations: an (untitled) illustration from Voices of the Desert with two lines of poetry: 'But the hole was dry, the bed was bare; The bones of a wild dog rotted there' and photograph: 'The Outlet of an Artesian Well' from Gregory's The Dead Heart of Australia.
The Desert, single work prose (p. 44-48)
Note: With three photographs: 'A Salt Lake: An Estuary of Lake Eyre' (unattributed), 'Baggage Camels' from Gregory's The Dead Heart of Australia and 'The Adelaide to Palmerston (On Port Darwin) Telegraph Line Passing Through a Stretch of Mulga scrub' by Professor Spencer and Mr F. J. Gillen in The Leader.

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Literary material by Australian authors in this issue:
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