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Issue Details: First known date: 1918... no. 242 October 1918 of The School Paper : Grades V and VI est. 1912 School Paper : Grades 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: 'Statue of Joan of Arc, Standing Near the Main Entrance to the Public Library, Melbourne' photograph by Sutcliffe, Melbourne accompanying poem: 'The Maid', [129].
    • Editor's Note: 'The 25th of October is Bird Day' [129]; 'Our Schools and the War' with (unattributed) photograph: 'Christmas Boxes', 142-143.
    • Poetry: 'The Maid' by Theodore Roberts (q.v.) with picture: 'Statue of Joan of Arc, Standing Near the Main Entrance to the Public Library, Melbourne', [129]-130; 'He Killed the Birds' extract from Nature and Culture by George B. Staff with two pictures: 'A Boobook Owl' from Handbook of the Destructive Insects of Victoria and 'A Kestrel Hawk' taken by Mr D. le Souef, 132-133; 'Two Birds From Alabama' by Walt Whitman (q.v.) with portrait: 'Walt Whitman' (q.v.) signed, 138.
    • Fiction: 'How Polly Cured the Cat' extract from Our Little Friend, California by Alice M. Snyder with two pictures: 'A Macaw That has his Stand Near the Entrance to the Zoological Gardens, Melbourne' from Almost Human: Reminiscences From the Melbourne Zoo and 'Sizer Looked at the Parrot with Longing Eyes' (unattributed) 135-137.
    • Prose: 'Birds on the Battle Front' (unattributed) 140.
    • Song: 'Hark! The Lark' words by William Shakespeare (q.v.) and music by Dr. B. Cooke, 143-144.

Contents

* Contents derived from the 1918 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
The Boy and the Bird, Alec H. Chisholm , single work prose children's
Chisholm promotes to children the value of studying birdlife in its natural habitat, rather than by book-learning. While he acknowledges that ornithology is gaining a place in Australian education, he is concerned for the decrease in the number of birds in Victoria.
 (p. 130-132)
Note: With photograph: 'Out in the Bush: Pupils of the Harrietville School, Victoria, Upper Ovens River, Victoria' by Mr A. Edwards of Gardiner School.
Tabs and His Photograph, Jane Ada Fletcher , single work children's fiction children's
Tabs, an Australian Spotless Crake, is found by a girl who wants to take a photograph of him among the eggs of the rest of his family, if only he would stop still long enough.
 (p. 133-135)
Note: With two pictures: 'A Spotless Crake' from An Australian Bird Book and 'A Nest of the Spotless Crake' photograph taken by Miss J. A. Fletcher.
The Dance of the Native Companions, A. A. W. Wilkie , single work prose children's (p. 139-140)
Note: With photograph: 'A Native companion Beginning to Dance' from Almost Human: Reminiscences from the Melbourne Zoo.
The Settlement, J. McDowall , single work prose children's (p. 141)
O Singer in Browni"O singer in brown!", Mary Gilmore , single work poetry (p. 142)
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