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Issue Details: First known date: 1931... vol. 3 no. 6 15 June 1931 of All About Books est. 1928 All About Books
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Notes

  • Cover features photograph of Hattie Knight captioned : Hatty Knight Whose Book of essays is Reviewed in this Issue.
  • Includes 'A Bookseller Talks Shop' presented in the form of (presumably) fictitious discussions between a bookshop proprietor and his staff and customers.
  • 'Murder, Mystery, Love, Adventure, Wild West' includes reviews of twenty-one works of popular fiction including Brand's Destry Rides Again and Burroughs' Tarzan and the Lost Empire.
  • Includes a reprint of the preface to Nettie Palmer's Henry Bournes Higgins by Graham Wallas.
  • Includes a forthcoming publication announcement for variant editions of Mary Gilmore's The Rue Tree.

Contents

* Contents derived from the 1931 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
What Is A Good Novel?, George H. Cowling , single work criticism
Cowling defines the qualities required of a 'good novel'.
 (p. 122-123)
A Book of Plays, E. C. Davidson , single work review (p. 123)
A Prophet is Not Without Honour ..., single work review
— Review of The Beach of Terror and Other Stories Beatrice Grimshaw , 1931 selected work short story ; Green Memory M. Barnard Eldershaw , 1931 single work novel ; Red Dust : An Australian Trooper in Palestine Donald Black , 1931 single work autobiography ; (p. 124-25)
A Reader's Notebook, Nettie Palmer , single work review
— Review of Old Eko's Note-Book Nathan F. Spielvogel , 1930 selected work short story ; Henry Lawson and His Critics Frederick John Broomfield , 1930 single work criticism biography ; Candour and Cant Hattie Knight , 1931 selected work essay ; (p. 126)
Best Sellers, single work column (p. 130)
Babble Machines and Some Novels, Nettie Palmer , single work criticism
Palmer criticises the tendency towards 'noise and overemphasis' in book reviews. Her discussion focuses on H. G. Wells, Henry James and Virginia Woolf. Also includes reviews of Edward Sackville West's Simpson, A Life, John Collier's His Monkey Wife, Shelby and Stoney's Po' Buckra and Gerard Hopkins' An Angel in the Room.
 (p. 133-34)
Untitled, single work column (p. 134)
Rolfe Gold Medal Awarded 'The Golden Plague', single work column (p. 134)
Australian Literature, Nettie Palmer , single work correspondence
Palmer responds to an Australian Literature Society lecture that suggested that the inadequacy of Australia's writers was due to them being pioneers. Palmer quotes Dyson's response to similar suggestions made of Australian artists.
 (p. 135)
New Australian Art Magazine, single work column (p. 136)
Australian Book Week in London, single work column
Announces that Australian Book Week in London wil commence 22 September with guests Richardson and Fullerton.
 (p. 142)
Tom Collins, J. C. Davies , single work column
Davies reports on the March and April Society meetings where Baker presented a biographical address on Joseph Furphy and Mr. J. B. Stanton spoke to 'The Inspiration of Poets'.
 (p. 143)
Australian Literature Society [Meeting Report], Vida Lenox , single work column
Lenox reports on the May meeting of the Society where Palmer spoke on 'The Short Story' and Leckie delivered the address 'The Short Play - And Why Not?'.
 (p. 143)
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