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Issue Details: First known date: 1906... no. 86 June 1906 of The School Paper for Classes V and VI est. 1898 School Paper for Classes V and VI : Arbor Day Number
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Notes

  • Only literary material by Australian authors is individually indexed.

    Other material in this issue includes:

    • First page picture: 'A View on the Loddon River, Victoria' (unattributed) accompanying poem 'Out in the Woods' [65].
    • Editor's Note: 'Regular Attendance' list of schools who achieved very high attendance rates, 80.
    • Poetry: 'Out in the Woods' extract from A Taunt by American poet Maurice Thompson (q.v.) [65]-66; 'The Rose' by English poet William Browne (1590-1645) 72; 'The Pumpkin' by American poet John Greenleaf Whittier (q.v.) 74-75; 'On Planting a Tree' by James Russell Lowell (q.v.) 78; 'A Path in the Forest' by American poet William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) with photograph: 'A Path in the Forest' 78; 'Trees' extract from The Faerie Queen by English poet Edmund Spenser (q.v.) 80.
    • Non-Fiction: 'Effects of Forest Growth on Climate' extract from Physics of the Earth by Duff, 68-69; 'The Giant Trees of Victoria' extract from Notes on the Giant Trees of Victoria by N. J. Caire and later published in The Victorian Naturalist with photograph: 'A Mountain Ash (Eucalyptus stuartina) "King Edward" Near Marysville' 72-74; 'The Apple' by G. H. Adcock, Principal Viticultural College, Rutherglen with diagram of an apple from Hodge's Nature Study and Life, 75-77.
    • Prose: 'True Nature Study' by American naturalist John James Audubon (1780-1851) with two photographs by Mr A. E. Kitson: 'A Distant View of Kosciusko (South of NSW) from the Gehi River- One of the Head Waters of the Murray' and 'View of the Summit of Mt Kosciusko, 7328ft, the Highest Point in Australia' 66-68; 'A Spray of Pine' extract from essay by American author John Burroughs in A Nature Reader for Senior Students with photograph: 'Pine Trees (Pinus insignis), Fitzroy Gardens, Melbourne' 78-80.
    • Conundrum: 'Nature's Grandest Lesson' (unattributed) paragraph about nature and God.

Contents

* Contents derived from the 1906 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
A Taunti"In the oldest wood I know a brooklet", Maurice Thompson , single work poetry (p. [65]-66)
Note: With photograph: 'A View of the Loddon river, Victoria'.
Why Should We Plant the Tree?i"Why should we plant the tree, who may not share", C. A. H. Searby , single work poetry (p. 69)
Note: Poet from Boundary Road School, North Melbourne.
The Life Story of a Eucalypt, Doris Egerton Jones , extract children's fiction (p. 70-72)
Note: With photograph: 'A Red Gum (Eucalyptus rostrata) 44ft in Circumference 3ft from the Ground, Adelaide Plains, South Australia' lent by Mr C L Whitham.

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Literary material by Australian authors in this issue:
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