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Issue Details: First known date: 1929... vol. 1 no. 12 20 November 1929 of All About Books est. 1928 All About Books
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Notes

  • Includes the articles 'Realism in Literature' by C.F. Brown, focusing on European literature and 'Shakespeare and Music'.
  • Includes a review of New Zealand author Walter Smyth's Bonzer Jones and photograph of the author and 'Some Fine Love Stories' reviewed by Phil Grim.
  • MacFarlane provides lengthy reviews of Paul Herring's Sir Toby and the Regent, Alec Waugh's Three Score and Ten and As Fate Decrees by H. de Vere Stacpoole in her regular column 'Novels I Think You Would Like To Read'. Also includes other, brief reviews.
  • Also includes a review of C.C. Martindale's The Risen Sun : Impressions of Australia and New Zealand.
  • In 'More New Zealand Writers' Mrs. F. Carr Rollett reviews works by New Zealand authors I.M. Cluett, Mona Gordon, and Irma O'Connor.
  • Includes a review of Georgette Heyer's Beauvallet with a photograph of the author. Seven American and European mystery novels are reviewed elsewhere by Wicking, Craig, and "Jay".
  • 'Best-seller' lists from England, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand are included under the title 'What England and America are Reading'.
  • 'Novels For All Tastes' includes brief reviews of The Small Dark Man by Maurice Walsh, C.W. Savi's Crashed, Maurice Bedell's The Count in the Kitchen, and Told Long Ago : Legends of the Papago Indians.
  • 'Some Views, News and Reviews' also carries the announcement of the Henry Lawson Society of Sydney's Gold Medal for a historical novel for 1929 and a photograh of Martin Mills (Mr. Martin Boyd).

Contents

* Contents derived from the 1929 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Celebration of the Thirtieth Anniversary, single work column
Brief history of the Society and its officers. Includes the presentation of the 1928 Gold Medal.
 (p. 368)
Historical Novels, Vernon Knowles , single work criticism
Knowles shows the broad thematic spectrum of historical novels from Sir Walter Scott to Naomi Mitchison.
 (p. 371)
A Bookseller Talks Shop, W. E. Fuller , single work prose humour
This article is presented in the form of (presumably) fictitious discussions between a bookshop proprietor and his customers.
 (p. 378-379)
Sydney Public Libraries, H. Bruno Thomas , single work column (p. 381)
Famous Plays of To-Day, E. C. Davidson , single work review (p. 381-381)
As Varied As Life : Five Good Books, single work review
— Review of My Life on The Australian Turf James Scobie , Khedive , 1929 single work autobiography ; (p. 391-392)
New Books Recommended for Children, single work review
— Review of The Happy Traveller Mary Grant Bruce , 1929 single work children's fiction ; Dream Isle : an Australian Story Arthur Russell , 1926 single work children's fiction ; (p. 394-395)
Has Henry Lawson's Verse Any Permanent Value?, W. H. Ifould , single work column
After reporting on the progress of the Lawson Statue Fund of which he was the hon. secretary, Ifould predicted that Lawson would not be remembered as a poet.
 (p. 398-399)
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