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'I enjoyed Andrew Moore's "The Historian as Detective' the more so I since my own game of detection concerning Bulletin editors and sub-editors between 1918 and 1926 has turned up one James Alexander Philp (1861-1935), author of Jingles that Jangle: A Book of Unpolished Satires (1918), and Songs of the Australian Fascisti (1923). A copy I investigated in the Mitchell Library is dated Brisbane September 1924. Philp was educated in New Zealand, and part of his collection Some Bulletin Stories (1916) is set there. Philp appears to have contributed verse and stories from Brisbane to the Bulletin, of which he was a sub-editor during the Great War. His Songs of the Australian Fascisti is a loose compilation of verse-journalism from various periods, brought together, I think, as a reaction to events since 1919 in Brisbane (the One Big Union Propaganda League which organized the March 1919 demonstration is directly alluded to in Philp's call for "Another Big Union," and in his title-page device).' (Introduction)
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The Australian Fascisti