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Issue Details:
First known date:
1947...
vol.
2
no.
2
August
1947
of
The Australasian Book News and Literary Journal
est. 1947
The Australasian Book News and Literary Journal
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Notes
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Includes reviews of John Hersey's Hiroshima and H. G. Wells' posthumous publications Mind At The End Of Its Tether and The Happy Turning.
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Also includes a review of Marjorie Woodson's Leaves from a Woman Lawyer's Casebook.
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Margaret MacCallum reviews three works of American popular fiction in 'Fiction by Formula' and two English 'whodunnits' are reviewed in 'Thrills and Chills'.
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Includes 'Round the World' a collection of literary news including the progress of trials against American Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings for invasion of privacy and Henry Miller's French publishers for obscenity.
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Includes Books Published in Australia: List of Books Supplied to the National Library, Canberra, under the Provisions of the Copyright Act. 27 May - 26 June 1947 (pp. 105-110)
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Includes 'Puppet Show On Wheels', a report of an un-named puppet show produced and written by Musette Morell.
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Eve Pownall announces Mary Gilmore as a patron of Children's Book Week.
Contents
* Contents derived from the 1947 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- Hawks and Handsaws, single work (p. 57)
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Storm in the Tropics,
single work
review
— Review of Cyclone 1947 single work novel ; (p. 59-60) - Saw Our History in Ballad Terms, extract biography (p. 61-63)
- Cyclone, extract (p. 64-68)
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Dickens and Koalas,
single work
review
— Review of Billy Bluegum, or, Back to the Bush 1912 single work novella ; (p. 70-71) - U.S.A. Reading Australians, single work extract (p. 71)
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Pirates Bold: Drama of a Shipwreck,
single work
review
— Review of Shipwreck 1947 single work drama ; (p. 75-76) -
Her Poems Charmed a Boilermaker,
single work
review
— Review of The Remembered Valley and Other Poems 1947 selected work poetry ; (p. 79) - Not For Publication, single work column (p. 83)
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Recent Books : Digest of the Month's Reading,
single work
review
— Review of Coast to Coast : Australian Stories 1945 1946 periodical issue short story ; 20 Australian Novelists 1947 single work anthology criticism extract novel ; Proud Heritage 1947 single work poetry ; Cornerstone 1947 single work novel ; (p. 86-88) -
"There the blue-green gums are a fringe of remote disorder"
Envoi for a Book of Poemsi"There the blue-green gums have a wild precision, a strict disorder,",
single work
poetry
(p. 89)
Note: Editor's note: From Under Aldebaran.
- Ethel Turner, single work (p. 91-92)
- Recent Children's Books, single work column (p. 93-96)
- Notes and News, single work column (p. 111)
- Opinion : Taste of the Library reader, single work correspondence (p. 112)
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