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Issue Details: First known date: 1937... vol. 9 no. 11 10 November 1937 of All About Books est. 1928 All About Books
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Notes

  • Cover photograph captioned: Anne Duffield, Writer of Popular Light Love Stories
  • The meeting report for the Australian English Association, Sydney includes a report of paper 'Blake and Tradition' delivered by James McAuley.

Contents

* Contents derived from the 1937 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
New Australian Books, Frederick T. Macartney , single work review
— Review of Best Australian One-Act Plays 1937 anthology drama ; Wide Horizons : Wanderings in Central Australia R. H. Croll , 1937 single work prose ; Murder in the Silo Edmund Barclay , 1937 single work radio play ; Variations on a Printing Press Charles Porter , 1937 single work radio play ; Beam Ends Errol Flynn , 1937 single work autobiography ;
(p. 166-169)
Outstanding New Publications and Best Sellers, single work column (p. 171)
Twelve Australian Books That Should Be in Every Australian Home, Mary Gilmore , George Mackaness , Frederick T. Macartney , single work review
— Review of The Singing Gold Dorothy Cottrell , 1927 single work novel ; Landtakers : The Story of an Epoch Brian Penton , 1934 single work novel ; Confessions of a Beachcomber E. J. Banfield , 1908 extract autobiography ; The Sentimental Bloke : The Play C. J. Dennis , 1914 single work poetry ; Songs of a Campaign Leon Gellert , 1917 selected work poetry ; Heart of Spring John Shaw Neilson , 1919 selected work poetry ; Satyrs and Sunlight : Being the Collected Poetry of Hugh McCrae Hugh McCrae , 1928 selected work poetry ; His Natural Life Marcus Clarke , 1870-1872 single work novel ; The Pearl and the Octopus, and Other Exercises in Prose and Verse Alfred George Stephens , 1911 selected work short story poetry ; Such Is Life : Being Certain Extracts from the Diary of Tom Collins Tom Collins , 1897 single work novel ; Flynn of the Inland Ion L. Idriess , 1932 single work biography ; The Fortunes of Richard Mahony Henry Handel Richardson , 1917 single work novel ; Man-Shy Frank Dalby Davison , 1934 extract novel ; We of the Never-Never Mrs Aeneas Gunn , 1908 single work novel ; Speaking Personally Walter Murdoch , 1930 selected work essay ; Best Australian One-Act Plays 1937 anthology drama ; The Wide Brown Land : A New Anthology of Australian Verse 1934 anthology poetry ; The Magic Pudding Second Slice : Being the Adventures of Bunyip Bluegum and His Friends Bill Barnacle and Sam Sawnoff Norman Lindsay , 1971 extract children's fiction ; Separate Lives Vance Palmer , 1931 selected work short story ; Modern Australian Literature, 1900-1923 Nettie Palmer , 1924 single work criticism ;
(p. 172)
Lighter Fiction, G. W. Wicking , M. S. , single work review
— Review of Murder in the Flagship P. Walker Taylor , 1936 single work novel ; Murder in the Game Reserve P. Walker Taylor , 1937 single work novel ; A Strange Destiny Carlton Dawe , 1937 single work novel ;
(p. 173)
The Poetry and Philosophy of Baylebridge, Firmin McKinnon , single work (p. 174-175)
Australian Composers and Writers' Association, Melbourne [Meeting Report], Margaret Boyd , single work column
Annette Johanson delivered the paper 'What Is Necessary in a Good Short Story' and Margaret Boyd followed with 'Your Attitude Towards Writing'. Mr. G. O'Neale read Franklin's reply to Cowling from the Bulletin.
(p. 177)
Melbourne Shakespeare Society [Meeting Report], single work column
Report of Long's address suggesting the origins of Shakespeare's influence on Lawson apparent in Lawson's 'Mateship in Shakespeare's Rome'.
(p. 178)
Australian Literature Society [Meeting Report], F. G. G. Hynes , single work column
Report of the metting of 18 October taken up entirely of the reporting of Grattan's paper 'Some Thoughts on Recent Australian Reading' "jolts and all, given in a delightfully easy and natural manner". Also includes responses from members including Percival Serle and Leonard Mann.
(p. 178-179)

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