Issue Details:
First known date:
1931...
vol.
3
no.
9
14 September
1931
of
All About Books
est. 1928
All About Books
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Cover features pencil sketch of Virgil captioned : The Authentic Virgil followed by a quote from Mackail's edition of The Aeneid describing a Mosaic portrait of the poet.
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Alan Fraser reviews a crime fiction omnibus edited by Dorothy L. Sayers, Baring's In My End Is My Beginning, Dekobra's Phryne and A Son of Arizona by Charles Alden Seltzer.
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Includes a letter from English writer and activist Ethel Mannin explaining that a recently released collection of her works is old material sold on by the publisher who held copyright.
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Includes 'Best Sellers and A.B.A, Recommendations'.
Contents
* Contents derived from the 1931 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
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Some New Australian Books,
single work
review
— Review of The Rue Tree : Poems 1931 selected work poetry ; Songs and Poems : With an Introductory Essay on Poetry in Australia 1931 selected work poetry ; Earth Kindred 1931 selected work poetry ; The Getting of Wisdom 1910 single work novel ; The Sands of Windee 1931 single work novel ; The Butterfly with Big Feet 1931 single work novel ; (p. 178-179) -
The Free-Lance Club, Sydney [Meeting Report],
single work
column
(p. 179)
Report of the Club's August events including Bedford's address on play writing and her donation of a copy of her one-act play Fear and a reading of Oakes' As Between Gentlemen.
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A Bookseller Talks Shop,
single work
prose
humour
(p. 180)Fuller very briefly uses the supply of Robert Bridges The Testament of Beauty instead of And All That Beauty to illustrate what he perceives as a 'prejudice against Australian authors'.
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Some Novels Reviewed,
single work
review
— Review of Madam Life's Lovers : A Human Narrative Embodying a Philosophy of the Artist in Dialogue Form 1929 single work novel ;(p. 181)Professor Cowling takes decency as his theme and emphasises the contrast between the 'decent vulgarity' of Mackenzie's Buttercups and Daisies and Lindsay's Madam Life's Lovers. -
Everyman Books Some Comments and Queries,
single work
criticism
(p. 183)Palmer gives a critical assessment of the Everyman Library. Concerned by what she regards as falling standards of production, she asks: "Are misprints in serious printed work a post-war phenomenon?"
- 'The Times' on Australian Stories, extract review (p. 184)
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Four Australian Plays,
single work
column
(p. 184)Announcement for the Society's annual drama night where four short plays chosen from the annual drama competition were performed.
- Australian Author Passes, single work obituary (p. 185)
- Literature and Journalism, single work column (p. 189)
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Society of Australian Authors [Meeting Report],
single work
column
(p. 190)Report of the Society's 'guest night' 29 August, held instead of the annual dinner postponed 'owing to the prevailing conditions'. The Society noted the deaths of Dyson and 'pioneer' member of the Society Williams. Cronin reported on the progress of the Anti-Dumping Committee, a subject first raised at the March meeting.
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The Henry Lawson Memorial and Literary Society of Footscray [Meeting Report],
single work
column
(p. 191)This is the report of the Society's 15 July meeting. Baker gave an address on Franklin, readings were made from Lawson and others. The Society agreed to forward a donation to the benefit appeal for Steele Rudd.
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Australian Literature Society [Meeting Report],
single work
column
(p. 191)Report of the 17 August meeting of the Society. The above works were reviewed.
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