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Issue Details:
First known date:
1925...
no.
298
February
1925
of
The School Paper : Grades VII and VIII
est. 1896-1932
The School Paper for Grades VII and VIII
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Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed.
Other material in this issue includes:
- First Page Picture: 'Monument to Governor Phillip, Sydney' from Australia Unlimited by Edwin J. Brady (q.v.), [1].
- Poetry: 'Stanzas from The Laws of the Navy' by British Rear Admiral Ronald A. Hopwood (1868-1949), 5. 'The Value of Books' from The Library by English poet George Crabbe (q.v.), 8; 'Nature' from 'Tintern Abbey' by English poet William Wordsworth (q.v.), with illus. 'Room in the Hawkshead Grammar School which Wordsworth Attended', 10; 'The Prince of Sleep' from Songs in Childhood by English author Walter Ramal [Walter de la Mare] (1873-1953), 13-14.
- Prose: 'Heroes of Peace and of War' from the preface to Triumphs of Invention and Discovery (c. 1863) by British author J. H. [James Hamilton] Fyfe, 9; 'The Champion Stonecutter' by Scottish geologist and essayist Hugh Miller (1802-1856), with illus. 'A View of Prince's-street, Edinburgh' and 'Various Types of Capital', 10-12; 'The Society of Books' by English essayist John Ruskin (q.v.), 14.
- History: 'Ballarat in '51', from an article in The Port Phillip Magazine (1843), with illus. 'On the Way to Ballarat, 1853', by S. T. Gill (q.v.), and 'Golden Point and the Ballarat Gold-washers, 1851' by D. Tulloch, both from Withers's History of Ballarat, 6-8.
- Notices: 'Calendar : 1925' showing days on which there is no school and the event of a full moon, 15.
- Song: 'Soldiers' Chorus' from the opera, Faust, by French composer [Charles-Francois] Gounod (1818-1893), 15-16.
- Supplement: 'Made in Australia : 11. Pottery' by the Made in Australia Council, 312 Flinders Street, Melbourne, with unattributed illus. 'Bird's-eye View of an Australian Brick and Pottery Works', 'Sectional View of a Kiln', and 'Cockspurs, Triangles, Stilts, &c.', i-iv.
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Preceding or following each piece is a short glossary of the longer words contained therein, as well as notes about people and places mentioned.
Contents
* Contents derived from the 1925 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
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A Song for January 26, 1824 : Being the XXXVI. Anniversary of the Colonization of New South Wales.i"When first above the briny surge",
single work
poetry
(p. [1]-2)
Note:
- Author cited as 'Charles Thompson, junior'.
- Editor's note: 'Two stanzas that are concerned with an apostrophe to Neptune, the god of the sea, are omitted. Neptune "thus addresses our isle".'
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A Night With the Denizens of the Bush,
single work
prose
children's
(p. 2-4)This piece of passionate prose makes a plea for the 'youngest nation' and 'oldest land on earth' to 'realize with sympathy the existence of life in nature other than our own'; to 'preserve the quaint denizens of our forests'; and to be mindful of the detrimental effects of the 'extermination' of the native marsupials.Note: With illustration: 'Bass River Possum' from Australian Pictures by Howard Willoughby (q.v.).
- At Cape Schancki"Down to the lighthouse pillar", extract poetry (p. 5)
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A Cycle of Delight,
single work
prose
(p. 12-13)
Note: With illus. 'Tea-trees on the Shore of Port Phillip'.
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