Issue Details:
First known date:
1929...
vol.
1
no.
5
18 April
1929
of
All About Books
est. 1928
All About Books
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Notes
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Includes 'Modern Poetry' by V.W. Garratt and a review of Anne Duffield's novel Predestined by Rose Nuttall.
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MacFarlane's 'Novels I Think You Would Like to Read' includes reviews of Elizabeth's Expiation, Max Brand's Pillar Mountain, Temple Bailey's Silver Slippers, The Three Amateurs by Michael Lewis, and Stephen McKenna's The Datchley Inheritance.
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Includes articles on verse by children, Lord D'Abernon, and the British Navy in the eighteenth century.
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'Recommendations of Some Important New Books' lists 31 new non-fiction publications, ranging in subject matter from Walt Whitman to the common cold.
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Includes D.W. Thorpe's obituary for Irish novelist Donn Byrne.
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Reader recommendation this issue is The Epic of Everest by Sir Francis Younghusband.
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'Best-seller' lists from England, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand are included under the title 'What England and America are Reading'.
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'New Novels of Literary Merit' includes short reviews of works by Friedrich Griese, Ruth Manning-Sanders, Guy Pocock, Kate Lovett and John Biggs.
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'Literary Society Meetings' includes a detailed report of R.S. Wallace's presentation on Donne. Briefly noted are talks given by F.W. Eggleston and Rev. Father Hackett on Australian Literature and Hubert Church on Australian Poetry.
Contents
* Contents derived from the 1929 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Personal and Biographical Notes on Australian Authors : George Gordon McCrae, single work biography (p. 143)
- Mr. John Dalley, single work column (p. 147)
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From My Inglenook : Gossip on Nature, Men and Books,
single work
review
(p. 153)Barrett briefly reviews 'titles of special interest to collectors of Aboriginiana'.
- The New Countries - Their Stories and Verse, single work prose (p. 154-155)
- The Seventh Man, single work short story mystery (p. 156-157)
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Delightful Stories of the Australian Aboriginal,
single work
review
— Review of The Vanished Tribes 1929 selected work short story ; (p. 157) -
Australian Novel Popular In America,
single work
review
— Review of Out of the Silence : A Romance 1919 single work novel ; (p. 158) -
In Lighter Vein,
single work
review
— Review of Wild Morning 1929 single work novel ; (p. 162)
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