AustLit
Issue Details:
First known date:
1933...
vol.
5
no.
6
10 June
1933
of
All About Books
est. 1928
All About Books
The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.
Latest Issues
Notes
-
On cover (in place of photograph): We commend to you an excellent review of eight novels by W.F. Bishop, some sound advice to Australasian authors by Prof. G. H. Cowling, Nettie Palmer's 'Notebook' of new Australian Books, a sample of the work of James Joyce, and some interesting topics in reports from Literary Societies.
-
Issue includes a photograph of Edith Wharton.
-
Also includes "What is a Bohemian?", Grim's review of Walter Starkie's Raggle-Taggle: Adventures With a Fiddle in Hungary and Roumania.
-
Includes Nettie Palmer's review of a biography of Russian exiles.
Contents
* Contents derived from the 1933 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
-
Pot-pourri,
single work
criticism
(p. 82-83)Bishop suggests that the output of some publishers has dropped in standard.
-
Novelists Should Read This,
single work
criticism
(p. 86)Cowling recommends Cather's Obscure Destinies and Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra to Australian authors.
-
A Reader's Notebook,
single work
review
— Review of Bring the Monkey : A Light Novel 1933 single work novel ; Quartette 1932 single work novel ; A Leaf of Laurel : A Novel 1933 single work novel ; Among the Reeds 1933 single work novel ; Pageant 1933 single work novel ; (p. 87) - Best Sellers and A.B.A. Recommendations, single work column (p. 88)
-
Super-Thrillers,
single work
review
— Review of Spies Are Abroad 1933 single work novel ; The Chief 1933 single work novel ; (p. 90) -
The Henry Lawson Memorial and Literary Society of Footscray [Meeting Report],
single work
column
(p. 92)Davies reports on Will Craig's paper "Life and Literature in Australia" in which he suggests that a government body be established so that Australians "might have some security against rubbish" in the guise of literature.
- Fellowship of Australian Writers [Meeting Report], single work column (p. 93)
- Neglected Australian Authors, single work column (p. 94-95)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Last amended 10 Aug 2006 12:58:01
Export this record
