AustLit

Only literary material by Australian authors is individually indexed.

Other material in this issue includes:

• First page picture: 'A Gum Tree Forest in Victoria' accompanying poem: 'The Forest', [65].
• Editor's Note: 'In Victorian schools Arbor Days are held in June and July', [65].
• Poetry: 'True Worth' by John Greenleaf Whittier (q.v.) 78.
• Fiction: 'The Faithful Plane Tree' (unattributed) with two (unattributed) photographs: 'A Plane Tree Avenue in the Fitzroy Gardens, Melbourne' and 'Spray From a Plane Tree Showing Leaves, Three Flowers Just Becoming Fruit (One at the End of the Spray), a Ripe Fruit Just About to Part With Its Seed, and a Seed', 70-72.
• Prose: 'Trees' (unattributed) with four (unattributed) pictures: 'Scene at the State Forest Nursery, Creswick, Victoria', 'Portion of the Leaf of a Red Gum Tree (Much Magnified) Showing Many Breathing Pores', 'Section (Much Magnified) of the Wood of an Aged Gum Tree, Showing Fibres, Tubes and Cells (The Rounded Bodies)' and 'Portion of the Trunk of a Tree Showing Annual Rings', 63-68; 'The Traveller and the Tree in the Desert' (unattributed) 68-69; 'An Unselfish Act, Planting a Tree' by Washington Irving (q.v.) 72; 'A Famous Tree in France' with three illustrations from pictures by Maison Delamare, Yvelot: 'Cider for the King', 'The Great Oak of Allouville' and 'Lower Part of the Trunk', 72-75; 'Damon and Pythias' (unattributed) 77-78; 'Ulysses and the Sirens' extract from Homer (q.v.) 76-77.
• Song: 'Morning Hymn' words by H. Turner and music by H. Longhurst and G. G. Lewis, 77-78.
• Notices: 'Aids for the Soldiers' 76.
• Conundrum: 'A Very Old Riddle' (unattributed) with (unattributed) photograph: 'The Famous Sphinx Monument in Egypt' 76-77.