Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed.

Other material in this issue includes:

• First page picture: 'Peasant Boys', from a painting by Murillo (1817-1682), a world-famous Spanish artist, [97].
• Poetry: 'Nature and Art' by English writer William Brighty Rands, in Lilliput Legends, [97]-98; 'Work' by Eliza Cook (1818-1889), an English poetess, 100-101; 'The Wreck of the "Hesperus"' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) an American poet, 102-104; 'Love and Life' by Christina Rossetti (1830-1894), an English poetess, 111.
• Prose: 'Four Thousand Miles in an Open Boat', from The Third Reader of The New Australian School Series, illus., 98-100.
• Fiction: 'Sinbad Meets the Old Man of the Sea', from The Arabian Nights, 101-102; 'One as True as the Other' from The School Magazine, New South Wales, 108-109; 'The Mistletoe' adapted from The School Newspaper, edited by Herbert Haynes, illus., 109-111.
• Drama: 'A Friend in Need', dramatized from a story in MacDougall's Farm Folk, and published in The School Magazine, NSW, 105-107.
• Song: 'In Derry Vale', words by W.G. Rotheby, 112.
• Notices: Spelling Tests (Victoria); Price of The School Paper, 111.