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Issue Details: First known date: 1947... vol. 1 no. 11 May 1947 of The Australasian Book News and Library Journal est. 1946 The Australasian Book News and Library Journal
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Notes

  • Also includes a review of Philip Wylie's Generation of Vipers.
  • Includes Books Published in Australia: List of Books Supplied to the National Library, Canberra, under the Provisions of the Copyright Act. 23 February - 26 March 1947 (pp. 520-524)

Contents

* Contents derived from the 1947 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Forgotten Men, George Farwell , single work prose (p. 477)
Hard Red Earth, Ken Levis , single work review
— Review of Men Against the Earth John K. Ewers , 1946 single work novel ;
(p. 479-480)
Poet of Force and Courage, Muir Holburn , single work (p. 481-83)
Men Against the Earth, John K. Ewers , extract novel (p. 485, 487-88)
The Undying Islands, George Farwell , single work review
— Review of A South Sea Diary S. W. Powell , 1942 single work autobiography ;
(p. 489-491)
Warning to Wantons, D. T. , single work review
— Review of Flying Fox and Drifting Sand : The Adventures of a Biologist in Australia Francis N. Ratcliffe , 1937 single work autobiography ;
(p. 493-494)
Grandeur of the Murray, Adam Francis , single work review
— Review of Water into Gold : The Taming of the Mighty Murray River Ernestine Hill , 1937 single work prose ;
(p. 495, 524)
Story-Telling Guardsman, Geoffrey Hutton , single work biography (p. 497-98)
Tales of the Desert and the Diggings, Margaret MacCallum , single work review
— Review of Washdirt : A Novel of Old Bendigo James Devaney , 1946 single work novel ;
(p. 502-503)
Recent Books: Digest of the Month's Reading, single work review
— Review of Sunday at Yarralumla : A Symphony Ethel Anderson , 1947 selected work poetry ; Wanderer's Rest Charles Barrett , 1946 selected work prose ; All That Swagger Miles Franklin , 1936 single work novel ; Ben Hall : The Bushranger Frank Clune , 1947 single work novel ;
(p. 507-508)
Needs in Children's Books, Dorothy Riddle , single work criticism (p. 509-510)
Lucky Elisabeth : Elisabeth MacIntyre, Eve Pownall , single work biography (p. 511, 513)
Recent Children's Books, single work review
— Review of Quitters Can't Win Allan Aldous , 1946 single work children's fiction ; Meet the Lees : an Australian story for boys and girls G. E. Logue , 1946 single work children's fiction ; Jungle Vagabonds T. Stuart Gurr , 1942 selected work children's fiction ;
(p. 514)
Open Letter to an Author-Artist, Eve Pownall , single work correspondence
Pownall reviews Nicholls' About Ships : From the Egyptian Galley to the Queen Elizabeth.
(p. 515)
Do's and Dont's, Dorothy Riddle , single work column
Riddle reports on a speech by Dr. Ethel Ewig, Education Director, Institute of Pacific Relations, Buffalo, New York. Nine points for 'writers of books on other lands for young people' concludes: 'Stress likeness rather than queerness of foreign habits.'
(p. 515)
Australian Book Exhibit for Overseas, single work column (p. 518)

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