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Issue Details: First known date: 1916... no. 204 October 1916 of The School Paper : Grades VII and VIII est. 1896-1932 The School Paper for Grades VII and VIII
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Notes

  • Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed.

    Other material in this issue includes:

    • First Page Picture: 'Calling his Bird Friends, Tuilleries Garden, France', from the short story 'Making Friends of the Wild Creatures by S. Leonard Bastin in Please Tell Us A Story (ed. Sidney Trist), [129].
    • Poetry: 'Sing on, Blithe Bird' by Scottish poet William Motherwell (1797-1835), [129]-130; 'If I Should Die' by English poet Rupert Brooke (q.v.), with portrait of the author, 140.
    • Fiction: 'The Man Who Came Late', a short moral tale (unattributed), 144.
    • Prose: 'Spare the Birds', from An Australian Bird Book by Australian naturalist J. A Leach (q.v.), 130-131; 'Pleasures of Knowledge' by English clergyman Sydney Smith (1771-1845), with illus. of the author, 131-133; 'The Fruitful Soil' (unattributed) [from the War Relief Gardeners' Guild], illus., 134-136; 'Glimpses of Rumania' from Domestic Life in Rumania (c.1916) by Dorothea Kirke, with illus. 'Ferdinand I., King of the Rumans', 'Peasant Carrying Wooden Jugs', and 'The Principal Street in Bukharest', 137-140; 'Progress of the War' (unattributed) with 'Map of Rumania (or Roumania) and its Surroundings', 141-142; 'What the Empire is Fighting For' by English war correspondent Ashmead Bartlett (1881-1931), 143.
    • Notices: 'The [War Relief] Fund and the Men at the Front' (unattributed), 143-144.
  • 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 1916 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Woundedi"In those sweet, solemn, silent evening hours", G. E. Parker , single work poetry children's war literature
The soothing melodies and scents of home pervade the dreams of soldiers wounded at the Front as nurses tend to their care.
 (p. 133-134)
Note: With illus. 'The Wounded' from The Sphere.
Australiai"Kissed by the northern sun, girt by a cobalt sea", A. X. L. E. , single work poetry children's
A salute to the natural riches of Australia, including its '[m]illions of stalwart men'.
 (p. 142)
Note: Previously published in The School Paper, Queensland.
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