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Issue Details:
First known date:
1909...
no.
117
April
1909
of
The School Paper for Classes V and VI
est. 1898
School Paper for Classes V and VI
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Notes
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Only literary material by Australian authors is individually indexed.
Other material in this issue includes:
- First page picture: 'A. B. Paterson' (q.v.) accompanying poem 'The Travelling Post Office' [33].
- Poetry: 'The Coliseum' extract from Childe Harold by George Gordon Byron (q.v.) with two (unattributed) photographs: 'The Coliseum' and 'The Dying Gladiator', 41-42; 'The Sky-Lark' by Scottish poet James Hogg (1770-1835) with (unattributed) illustration: 'The Sky-Lark', 48.
- Prose: 'The Golden Fleece' continuation of extracts from Tanglewood Tales by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) with two (unattributed) illustrations: 'Orpheus' and 'Jason in the Presence of Aetes, King of Colchis and His Daughter, Medea', 34-40; 'Character of the Educated Gentleman' extract from The Idea of a University by English author Dr John Henry Cardinal Newman (1801-1890) 40.
- Conundrum: 'Wise Sayings' the first by Saadi about learning, the next by Burke about challenging others and the last by Xenophon about the value of agriculture, 48.
Contents
* Contents derived from the 1909 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
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The Travelling Post Officei"The roving breezes come and go, the reed beds sweep and sway",
single work
poetry
humour
(p. [33]-34)
Note: With (unattributed) photograph: 'A. B. Paterson'.
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Liberty and Peril,
Jack Sommers
(illustrator),
extract
children's fiction
(p. 43-47)
Note: Chapter from Rowans' Bill Baillie with six illustrations by Jack Sommers: 'Bill Baillie', 'The Lizard', 'The Owl', 'The Dingo Howled an Answer', 'Bill Bounded Away' and 'A Black Tracker'.
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