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Advertisement - Includes Melbourne bookseller Robertson & Mullens' advertisement for a range of books and stationary items, here recommended as Christmas gifts. The books listed include : Solo to Sydney, by F. C. Chichester ; The Glory of Britain, by David Masters ; Ballads for Broadbrows, by A. P. Herbert ; Over the Hills, by Jeffery Farnol ; Thy Servant a Dog, by Rudyard Kipling ; The Millionaire Tramp, by Henry St. John Cooper ; Australia, by W. K. Hancock ; Fly Away Home, by Nancy Morison ; Fun Sketching, by W. R. Maxwell Foster ; Home-Made Toys for Boys and Girls ; The Book of Ships, by Ernest Protheroe ; Shaping Your Career, by William J. Caton Norris ; The Young Artist, Henley's ABC of Gliding and Sailflying, edited by Victor W. Page ; A Complete Course of Practical Flying, by George Henderson ; A Book of Architecture, by G. H. Reed ; The Romance of the Speedway, by 'Sprouts' Elder ; and How to Drive a Car. The magazines listed include : Holly Leaves ; The Illustrated London News ; Graphic ; Sphere ; The Sketch ; The Tattler ; Punch Almanac ; and The Chronicler of European Chivalry, (p. 6).

Advertisement - Includes Melbourne bookseller A. J. Hanley's advertisement for a range of new and second-hand college, high school and university text-books, (p. 6).

Advertisement - Includes Melbourne bookseller H. A. Evans and Son's advertisement for various books. Those listed include : The Mysterious Universe, by (Sir) James Jeans ; The Glory of Britain, by David Masters ; Man and His Universe, by John Langdon-Davies ; That Dog of Mine, by Joe Walker ; Roc. A Dog's-Eye View of War, by Edmund Vale ; Jock of the Bushveld, by James Percy Fitzpatrick ; Memories, by John Galsworthy ; The Lives of a Bengal Lancer, by Francis Yeats-Brown ; The Story of San Michele, by Axel Munthe ; Seventh Heaven, by Nina Murdoch ; Jim Redlake, by Brett Young ; Wanderings in Wildest Africa, by Dugald Campbell ; Tramping Through Africa, by W. J. W. Roome ; The Testament of Beauty, by Robert Bridges ; Angel Pavement and Good Companions, both by J. B. Priestley ; Kristin Lavransdatter, by Sigrid Undset ; The Letters of Gertrude Bell, selected and edited by (Lady) Florence Bell ; The Life of Sir Edward Marshall Hall, by Edward Marjoribanks ; The History of Modern Painting, by Richard Muther ; Fly Fishing, by (Viscount) Edward Grey ; Scottish Sermons and Addresses, by Charles L. Warr ; An Ambassador of Peace : Lord D'Abernon's Diary (vol. 3), by Lord D'Abernon ; Rudyard Kiplings Verse : Inclusive Edition 1885-1926, by Rudyard Kipling ; Great Short Stories of the World, chosen by Barrett H. Clark and Maxim Lieber ; The Best Short Stories of 1930, edited by E. J. O'Brien ; De Mortuis, by Charles Maclaurin ; The Englishman and His Books in the Early Nineteenth Century, by Amy Cruse ; The Middle East, by Polson Newman ; Raiders of the Deep, by Thomas Lowell ; The Dragon and the Lotus, by Crosbie Garstin ; The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, edited by Burton J. Hendrick ; Secrets of a Showman, by Charles Black Cochran ; All Our Yesterdays, by H. M. Tomlinson ; America Comes of Age, by Andre Siegfried ; Trader Horn, by A. A. Horn ; Microbe Hunters, by Paul de Kruif ; Genius and Character, by Emil Ludwig ; Arthur Mee's Story Book, by Arthur Mee ; The Children's John Bunyan, arranged by Arthur Mee ; South With Scott, by E. R. G. R. Evans ; A Night in Kurdistan, by Jean Richard Bloch ; The Governor of Katowitz, by Graham Seton (Hutchinson) ; The Lore of the Honey Bee, by Tickner Edwardes ; Vagabonds and Puppets, by Walter Wilkinson ; Interviewing Wild Animals, by F. Ratcliffe Holmes, (p. 6).

Advertisement - Includes Melbourne bookseller E. E. Davis' advertisement for various books. Those listed include : Salome, or the Wandering Jewess, by G. S. Viereck and P. Eldridge ; In Quest of the Sun, by Alain Gerbault ; Why We Behave Like Human Beings, by G. A. Dorsey ; The Way of a Trout With a Fly, by G. E. M. Skues ; Trout Fishing, by W. Earl Hodgson ; With Fly Only, by W. F. R. Reynolds ; The Principles and Practise of Fly and Bait Casting, by R. D. Hughes ; Dry Fly Fishing for Beginners, by R. C. Simpson ; Married Love, Wise Parenthood, and Enduring Passion, all by Marie Stopes ; Book of Nature and Marriage Guide, by (Dr.) Thomas Faulkner ; and Freemasonry Exposed and Explained, by (Capt.) William Morgan, (p. 6).

Advertisement - Includes an advertisement for The Argus Guide to Melbourne, (p. 6).

Advertisement - Includes Melbourne bookseller Will Andrade's advertisements for the Marie Stopes' guides Wise Parenthood and Married Love, (p. 6).

Advertisement - Includes Melbourne medical bookseller Ramsay's advertisement for the textbooks : The Health Inspector's Manual, and The Australian Handbook of Meat Inspection, both by John Johnston, and A Primer of Dietetics, by W. A. Osborne, (p. 6).

Advertisement - Includes publisher Macmillan's advertisement for their leather bound 'Cardinal Series' editions. The works listed include : The Man Eaters of Tsavo, by J. H. Patterson ; The Virginian, by Owen Wister ; Alice in Wonderland, and Through the Looking Glass, by Lewis Carroll ; The Water Babies, and The Heroes, by Charles Kingsley ; Land and Sea Tales, by Rudyard Kipling ; The Ingoldsby Legends, by Thomas Ingoldsby ; Pioneers of Science, by Oliver Lodge ; A Short History of the English People, by J. R. Green ; A Short History of English Literature, by George Saintsbury ; and Shakespearean Tragedy, by A. C. Bradley, (p. 6).

Review - Includes the column 'Books and Men', by 'Elzevir', which this week reviews Bertha Vyver's Memoirs of Marie Corelli, (p. 6).

Review - Includes the article 'The Mind of a Monarch', a review of a recent volume in the series, The Letters of Queen Victoria, edited by George Earle Buckle, (p. 7).

Review/Column - Includes the Saturday books column 'New Books', which lists the latest publications received, and includes a number of paragraph length book-reviews.

The works reviewed include : England in the Age of the American Revolution, by L. B. Namier ; The Great Hill Climb, by Alex P. Campbell ; Impressions and Recollections, by (Brig. General) F. P. Crozier ; An Artist's Models, by Cecil Aldin ; Portrait of a Dog, by Mazo de la Roche ; Roc. A Dog's-Eye View of War, by Edmund Vale ; The Yarn of a Yeoman, by S. F. Hatton ; This Human Nature, by Charles Duff ; Henry Irving, by Gordon Craig ; More Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes, by Harry Graham ; and Jonquil, by Oliver Hill, (p. 8).

The list of publications received includes : Everybody's Boswell, by Ernest H. Shepard ; Stark India, by Trevor Pinch ; Under Peruvian Skies, by A. Hyatt Verrill ; Military Operations : Egypt and Palestine, by (Captain) Cyril Falls ; The Animal Mind, by C. Lloyd Morgan ; Management : The Secret of Increased Net Profits, by Herbert N. Casson ; Sunlit Trails, by Archer Russell ; The History and Problems of the Northern Territory of Australia, by A. Grenfell Price ; The Journal of the College of Surgeons of Australasia, edited by Mervyn Archdall ; Bapu Gandhi, by A. B. Piddington ; Business or Bankruptcy?, by Norman Tiptaft ; The Mysterious Universe, by (Sir) James Jeans ; Francis Bacon, by Bertram G. Theobald ; The United States of Europe, by Edouard Herriot (trans. Dingle) ; Fox-Hunting, by (Sir) Charles Frederick, and others ; Samoa Under the Sailing Gods, by N. A. Rowe ; Dramas of the Dock, by Guy B. H. Logan ; Commercial Calculations (Parts 1 and 2), by R. S. Osborne ; The Strange Death of President Harding, from the diaries of Gaston B. Means (as told to May Dixon Thacker) ; Solo to Sydney, by F. C. Chichester ; Life in London's Great Prisons, by T. Whyte Mountain ; A Victorian Vintage, by (Sir) Mountstuart E. Grant Duff (edited by A. Tilney Bassett) ; The Social Contract of the Universe, by C. G. Stone ; Billiards, by Walter Lindrum ; Soldier's Testament, by Rene Quinton, translated and edited by Douglas Jerrold ; The Gun Room Guide, by Hugh B. C. Pollard ; A Dozen Dogs or So, by Patrick R. Chalmers ; The Flight from Reason, by Arnold Lunn ; A Winter Miscellany, by Humbert Wolfe ; Echoes of the South Sea, by Don Gordon ; A Hunter Talks, by Wilfrid Robertson ; Vancouver, by George Godwin ; The Jameson Raid, by Hugh Marshall Hole ; The Adventure of Paul of Tarsus, by (Rev.) H. F. B. Mackay ; The Old Trade Unions, by William Kiddier ; Psychology of Early Childhood up to the Sixth Year of Age, by William Stern (trans. Barwell) ; A Year in England for Foreign Students, by Wilfrid Thorley ; Dreyfus, by Walter Steinthal (trans. Johnes) ; Mahatma Gandhi : His Own Story, by C. F. Andrews ; The Story of Fergie Bey, by V. H. Fergusson ; A History of Persia (2 vols.), by (Sir) Percy Sykes ; A Treatise on Money (2 vols.), by John Maynard Keynes ; Two Witnesses, by Gwendolen Greene ; The Glance Backward, by Richard Church ; Heinrich Heine, by H. Walter ; Education and Leisure, edited by S. E. Lang ; Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann, by Johann Peter Eckermann (abridged from the translation by John Oxenford) ; The Modern Dilemma, by Hugh Fausset ; Day Schools of England, by Ronald Gurner ; The Swan Shakespeare (3 vols.), edited by C. B. Purdom ; The Pleasures of Poetry, by Edith Sitwell, (p. 8).

Other books on the list include : England, the Unknown Isle, by Paul Cohen-Portheim (trans. Harris) ; Memories and Vagaries, by Axel Munthe ; The Philosophy of the Good Life, by Charles Gore ; A Woman of the Tudor Age, by (Lady) Cecilie Goff ; Dawn in India, by (Sir) Francis Younghusband ; The Letters of Queen Victoria, 1886-1901, edited by George Earl Buckle ; Journal of a Somerset Rector, by John Skinner (edited by H. Coombs and Rev. Arthur N. Bax) ; The World the House and the Bar, by (Sir) Ellis Hume-Williams ; Roosevelt : His Mind in Action, by Lewis Einstein ; The Buddhist Pilgrim's Progress, by Helen M. Hayes ; A History of South America, by Charles Edmond Akers and L. E. Elliott ; Selected Poems, by Maurice Baring ; The Wanderer of Liverpool, by John Masefield ; The Art of Dying, edited by Francis Birrell and F. L. Lucas ; A Room of One's Own, by Virginia Woolfe ; The Psychology of Clothes, by J. C. Flugel ; and The Empire Crusade, by (Senator) R. D. Elliott. The magazines listed include : The Economic Record ; Empire Review ; The London Mercury ; The English Review ; The Motor Ship, (p. 8).

Advertisement - Includes Melbourne retailer Foy and Gibson's advertisement for a range of Christmas gifts, including various children's annuals. Those listed include : The Boy's Own Annual ; The Girl's Own Annual ; Chums Annual ; Tiger Tim's Annual ; The Schoolgirls' Own Annual ; Bubbles Annual ; The Bruin Boys' Annual ; The Chicks' Own Annual ; The School Friend Annual ; The Champion Annual, (p. 9).

Advertisement - Includes Gordon and Gotch's advertisement for Arthur Mee's The Children's Encyclopedia (10 vols.), (p. 24).

Advertisement - Includes Gordon and Gotch's advertisement for a number of Amalgamated Press Annuals. These include : Bubbles Annual ; The Rainbow Annual ; The Bruin Boys' Annual ; Puck Annual ; The Golden Annual for Girls ; Bo-Peep's Bumper Book ; The Chicks' Own Annual ; The Greyfiars Holiday Annual ; Picture Show Annual ; The Popular Book of Boys' Stories ; The Popular Book of Girls' Stories ; Playbox Annual ; The Schoolgirls' Own Annual ; Tiger Tim's Annual ; Mrs Hippo's Annual ; The Champion Annual ; Tiny Tots ; The Playtime Annual ; The School Friend Annual ; The Australian Girl's Annual ; The Australian Boy's Annual, (p. 27).

Review - Includes a two column review of I Sailed with Chinese Pirates, by Aleko E. Lilius, (Supp. p. 3).