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Issue Details: First known date: 1930... 27 December 1930 of The Brisbane Courier est. 1864 The Brisbane Courier
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  • Review - Includes 'Books of the Week', the regular Saturday book review column. The works reviewed include : Mary Baker Eddy : A Life Size Portrait, by Lyman P. Powell ; A Woman of the Tudor Age, by (Lady) Cecilie Goff ; Dawn in India, by (Sir) Francis Younghusband ; Bapu Gandhi, by A. B. Piddington ; The Story of Fergie Bey, by Vere Henry Fergusson ; Let's See the Lowlands, by A. A. Thomson ; The Trail to Paradise, by Jackson Gregory ; Time to Stare, by Marjorie Booth ; Huon Belle : A Novel, by Charlotte Dick ; Birds of the Night, by Austin Moore ; The Wedding-Chest Mystery, by A. Fielding ; The Trial of Scotland Yard, by Martin Stuart ; Trumpet in the Dust, by Gene Fowler, Ginevra, by Virginia Watson ; This Siren Song, by Ernest Elmore ; There Came a Call, by Lilian Turner ; Cross and Sword : A Tale of Joan of Arc, by David Ker, (p. 6).
  • Column - Includes the item 'Books Worth Reading', a list of recently published books, nominated by The Australian and New Zealand Booksellers' Association, 'as a guide to fiction of merit'. The list is divided into three categories, and includes : (under 'General Literature') - Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, by Siegfried Sassoon ; As We Were, by E. F. Benson ; The Village Book, by Henry Williamson ; Travellers' Luck, by E. V. Lucas ; Must England Lose India?, by (Lt. Col.) A. Osburn ; Speaking Personally , by Walter Murdoch ; Life's Panorama, by J. A. Gurner ; Bligh of the Bounty, by Geoffrey Rawson ; War Letters of Fallen Englishmen, (ed. Housman) ; Through Unknown Africa, by William Jaspert ; Night Raiders of the Air, by A. R. Kingsford ; The White Man's Garden, by Mervyn Skipper ; (under 'Novels of Literary Merit') - : Roads to Glory, by Richard Aldington ; The Wooden Woman, by Alexander Townsend ; Her Father's House, by Hilda Vaughan ; (under 'Novels for Popular Reading') - The Minion, by Rafael Sabatini ; Sailors of Fortune, by William McFee ; The Middle Watch, by Ian Hay and Stephen King Hall ; Jacaranda Nield, by Sheila Macdonald ; Exit, by Harold Bell Wright ; That Wild Lie, by Naomi Jacob ; To What Green Altar, by W. B. Maxwell ; The Calendar, by Edgar Wallace ; Golden Dawn, by Peter B. Kyne ; Masquerade, by Cecily Sidgwick ; Behind the Lines, by W. F. Morris ; The Trail to Paradise, by Jackson Gregory ; Adrian Glynde, by Martin Armstrong ; Me and Francis, by A. Armstrong ; The Beloved Adventuress, by Edmund D'Auvergne ; Backwater, by T. S. Stribling ; The Millionaire Tramp, by Henry St. John Cooper ; Nothing to Pay, by Carodoc Evans ; The Passage, by Vance Palmer, (p. 6).

  • Column - Includes 'Ixion's' Saturday column, 'Sidelights', containing brief (often humorous) poems and other witty items, (p. 6).
  • Column - Includes the regular Saturday literary editorial/essay. This week's essay, is titled 'Waves in Poetry', and surveys poems involving the sea, (p. 10).

Contents

* Contents derived from the 1930 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Charlotte I. Dick, single work review
— Review of Huon Belle : A Novel Isabel Dick , 1930 single work novel ;
(p. 6)
Note: In Column: Books of the Week
Young People's Books, single work review
— Review of There Came a Call Lilian Turner , 1930 single work novel ;
(p. 6)
Note: In Column: Books of the Week
Town Hall Pedimenti"When the people of the future", Ixion , single work poetry (p. 6)
Note: In Column: Sidelights
Vast Resourcesi"'Take a holiday from cooking',", Ixion , single work poetry (p. 6)
Note: In Column: Sidelights
Man Digging in Queen-Streeti"I often wonder what they see", Ixion , single work poetry (p. 6)
Note: In Column: Sidelights
Christmas Dinnersi"The dinners ate at Christmas", Ixion , single work poetry (p. 6)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Notes:
Includes the twentieth instalment of Hilda Bridges' serial fiction 'The House with Black Blinds', (p.17).
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