AustLit

Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed.

Other material in this issue includes:

• First Page Picture: 'The Garden of Hesperides' by English classical painter and sculptor Sir Frederick Leighton (1830-1896, [97].
• Poetry: 'For A' That, and A' That' by Scottish poet Robert Burns (q.v.), with portrait of the author, 108-109.
• Prose: 'National Service : The Industrial Army' by Australian educationalist William Gillies (q.v.), with photograph 'In a Boot Factory, Fitzroy', 109-111.
• Natural Science: 'The Wattle' by Australian naturalist Edward S. Sorenson (q.v.), with illus. 'Sydney Green Wattle (Acacia decurrens), 'Acacia Beileyana', 'Cootamundra Wattle (Acacia Baileyana), 99-102.
• History: 'Gold Mining in Victoria', from Victoria the Garden State of Australia (c. 1908) by D. J. Mahony, M.Sc., F.G.S., with illus. 'Prospectors : A Lucky Find : Struck it Rich', and 'Bendigo, the City of Sunshine', 103-106; 'The Crossing of the Murrumbidgee River by Hume and Hovell's Party' from Journal of Discovery to Port Phillip, New South Wales, in 1824 and 1825 (1837), by W. H. Hovell (q.v.) and H. Hume (q.v.), with portraits of Hamilton Hume and Thomas Boyd and 'Hume and Boyd Taking a Line across the Murrumbidgee River' '[f]rom an old drawing', 106-108.
• Correspondence: 'A Dickens Letter' by English novelist Charles Dickens (q.v.) to his son, Edward, on his departure to Australia, 1868, with portrait of the author, 111-112.
• Supplement: 'Made in Australia : 6. The Weaving of Woolens' by the Made in Australia Council, 312 Flinders Street, Melbourne, with unattributed illus. 'Looms at Work', 'Parts of a Handloom', 'The Shuttle', and 'The Final Touch', i-iv.