AustLit

Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed.

Other material in this issue includes:

• First Page Picture: 'The Yarra at Melbourne', photograph from the Commonwealth Development and Migration Commission, [65].
• Prose: 'The Island of Nightingales', extract from the autobiography The Life and Work of Edward Bok, 66-67; 'School Endowment Plantations' by E. S. Weaver, Head Teacher, Bacchus Marsh Elementary School, with illustration: 'Blue Gum Plantations at the You Yangs', 76-77; 'The Pine' by Ruskin, 77.
• Poetry: 'How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix' by English poet Robert Browning (1812-1889), with illustration: '"I poured down his throat our last measure of wine:"', 66-69; 'The Golden Journey to Samarkand', verse drama by English poet James Elroy Flecker (1884-1915) 71-73; 'The New Duckling' by English poet Alfred Noyes, 75-76; 'A Dead Forest' by J. B. O'Hara, 78.
• History: 'Magna Charta', extract from A Short History of the English People by J. R. Green, 79-80.
• Industry: 'Made in Australia: Leather', "a reprint of supplement No. 13", prepared by the Made in Australia Council, Melbourne, and issued as a supplement to The School Paper under the authority of the Minister of Public Instruction, Victoria, illustrated with photographs of the manufacturing process, i-iv.
• Notices: 'Notices', regarding 'Spelling Tests' and the 'Price of The School Paper', 67.

Preceding or following each piece is a short glossary of the longer words contained therein, as well as notes about people and places mentioned, and comments on the metre of poetry. There are also often 'General Notes' which ask the reader questions about the work.