AustLit

Only literary material by Australian authors is individually indexed.

Other material in this issue includes:

• First page picture: 'Earl Roberts, in the House of Lords, Pointing Out to the British People the Perils of Unpreparedness' [showing] Lord Milner from a drawing by Ralph Cleaver in The Graphic, [49].
• Poetry: 'The Fleet' by Alfred Tennyson (q.v.) accompanying Sir Graham Berry's speech about the perils of the British Empire, 50; 'Vitai Lampada' extract from Admirals All and Other Verses by Henry Newbolt (q.v.) 54; 'Home Thoughts From the Sea' by English poet Robert Browning (q.v.) 64.
• Prose: 'The Fleet' speech by Sir Graham Berry (1822-1904), Agent General for Victoria in the United Kingdom about the perils of the British Empire, 50; 'The Formation of Character' speech by Mr Richardson, Master of Marlborough College with (unattributed) photograph: 'General Gordon' the bronze statue by Onslow Ford in barrack square at Chatham, England, 51-53; 'The Empire and the Crown' extract from speech by the Earl of Dudley on the King's birthday 1908 with photograph: 'His Excellency the Earl of Dudley, PC, GCMG, GCVO, Governor General and Commander-In-chief of the Commonwealth of Australia' by Talma of Melbourne, 62-63; 'Our Country is What We Make It' extract from The Citizen Reader by H. O. Arnold-Forster and C[harles] R. Long, 63-64.
• Supplement: 'The Golden Fleece' continuation of extracts from Tanglewood Tales by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) 2-5; 'Our Duty as Citizens' extract from Natal: The State and the Citizen by P. A. Barnett and G. W. Sweeney, 6.
• Song: 'Soldiers' Chorus' extract from the opera Faust, 6-8.