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Issue Details: First known date: 1930... vol. 2 no. 11 18 November 1930 of All About Books est. 1928 All About Books
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Notes

  • W.E. Fuller's 'A Bookseller Talks Shop' recommends books on golf, the accumulation of wealth and cricket as well as Ferber's Cimarron and J. B. Priestley's Angel Pavement.
  • Louis Lavater reviews books on music.
  • MacFarlane reviews Nothing to Pay by Carodoc Evans, Strong Poison by Dorothy Sayers, Wallijo Kitty by Ann Knox, Alice Grant Rosman's The Young and the Secret, and Penny Rose by F. E. Mills Young.
  • 'The Best and Most Popular New Books' includes a column that attempts to interpret the data from the best seller lists from England and the United States of America and the list compiled by a committee nominated by the Associated Booksellers of Australia and New Zealand that it accompanies.
  • Includes a brief note 'W.E.A. on Australian Literature'. The side affirming 'That Australia needs literature written by Australian authors to develop a national outlook' were the winners.
  • Includes a brief note on the first London review of Vance Palmer's The Passage.

Contents

* Contents derived from the 1930 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Steele Rudd, G. R. Reeve , single work column
Reeve reports on Davis' address 'How I Wrote On Our Selection' to the Henry Lawson Literary Society, Sydney . Davis also discusses choosing a pseudonym and his literary influences.
 (p. 278)
Should Books Be Taxed?, Daniel Wrixon Thorpe , single work column
Thorpe challenges the trend in legislation toward the accelerated increase in the rate of taxation on books compared to other printed goods.
 (p. 279-280)
A Reader's Notebook, Nettie Palmer , single work review
— Review of Between the Lines Boyd Cable , 1915 single work novel ; Speaking Personally Walter Murdoch , 1930 selected work essay ; Souvenirs d'une Parisienne aux Antipodes Marie Rousselet Niau , 1930 single work autobiography ; Queensland Poets Henry Arthur Kellow , 1930 single work criticism ; (p. 281-283)
Some New Books, Alan Fraser , single work review
— Review of Devil Made Saint Jean Devanny , 1930 single work novel ; (p. 284-285)
Mystery and Adventure Stories, G. W. Wicking , single work review
— Review of The Yellow Cygnet Harold Redcliffe , 1930 single work novel ; (p. 296)
Book Prices Higher, single work column (p. 298)
Drama Night, Hattie Knight , single work review
— Review of Morning Betty M. Davies , 1929 single work drama ; White Feather Furnley Maurice , 1930 single work drama ; The Kitchen Table : A Play in One Act Vida Lenox , 1930 single work drama ; (p. 299-301)
Wattles Planted To Perpetuate Memory of Poets, single work column (p. 301)
Poets' Corneri"In the pensive light that deepens mystic charms of distant hills,", Marion Miller Knowles , single work poetry (p. 301)
Note: Dedication: Dedicated to Dr. Jas. Booth
Arthur Lynch, J. C. Davies , single work column (p. 301-302)
The Free-lance Club, Sydney [Meeting Report], Jean Wedderspoon , single work column (p. 303)
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