AustLit

Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed.

Other material in this issue includes:

• First Page Picture: 'A Tunnel of Green Gloom: A View of Manifold Street, Camperdown' photograph from the Commonwealth Development and Migration Commission, 65.
• Fiction: 'How the Animals Passed the Winter' extract from The American Red Cross News, with two silhouettes of various animals, 72-74; 'A Clever Sheep Dog' extract from Our Dog by Dr. John Brown, 75-76.
• Poetry: 'The Heart of the Tree' by American poet H. C. Bunner (q.v.), 65-66; 'The Chorus of Frogs' by Anne Hawkshawe with (unattributed) illustrations of frogs singing, 68; 'The Building of the Canoe' extract from The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (q.v.), with (unattributed) illustration: 'Hiawatha In His Canoe', 70-72; 'What the Wood Said' by American poet Frank L. Stanton (q.v.), with (unattributed) illustration, 77-78; 'Service' by New Zealand poet Edward Tregear, 78.
• Drama: 'The Ugly Duckling' dramatization abridged from The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen (q.v.), with (unattributed) illustration of swans, 69-70.
• Prose: 'Why the Evergreen Trees never Lose Their Leaves' extract from A Child's Nature Myths Reader by A. M. Goode, with (unattributed) illustration: 'Pine-Trees At the Creswick Plantation', 66-68.
• Science: 'Alcohol' (unattributed) from 'The Child's Health Primer' in Pathfinder Physiology no. 1, 78.
• Song: 'The Ash Grove' a Welsh air with (unattributed) illustration of two dogs meeting: 'Friend or Foe?', 79-80.