AustLit

Review - Includes C. J. D.'s review of the Australian premiere of St. John Ervine's comedy, 'The First Mrs Fraser', (p. 8).

Review - Includes 'A Year on the Great Barrier Reef', a review of the book A Year on the Great Barrier Reef, by British scientist C. M. Yonge, (p. 13).

Review - Includes 'Recent Books Reviewed', the regular book review column by 'Touchstone'. The works reviewed include : Mary Baker Eddy : A Life Size Portrait, by Lyman P. Powell ; The Wedding Guest Mystery, by A. Fielding ; I Hope They Won't Mind, by Percy Colson ; Decent Fellows, by John Heygate ; Marka of the Pits, by E. Chirikof (trans. Zarine) ; and Black Light, by Talbot Mundy, (p. 15).

Review - Includes 'Thumbnail Reviews', a series of brief reviews of recently published works. These include : Life in London's Great Prisons, by T. Whyte Mountain ; Susan Price ; or, Resolution, by Edith C. Brown ; The Social Contract of the Universe, by C. G. Stone ; In the Days of Gold, by James B. Hendryx ; That Which is Crooked, by Warren Hill ; Murder at the Pageant, by V. L. Whitechurch ; The Silence of Sarrail, by Paul Coblentz (trans. Chambers) ; The Short Stories of Warwick Deeping ; A Victorian Dean : A Memoir of Arthur Stanley, Dean of Westminster, by A. V. Baillie and H. H. Bolitho ; Let's See the Lowlands, by A. A. Thomson ; and The Secret of High Eldersham, by Miles Burton, (p. 15).

Column - Includes 'Books Received for Review'. The works listed include : Everyday Marvels of Science, by V. H. L. Searle ; The Conquest of Happiness, by Bertrand Russell ; Frail Lady, by Edith Nepean ; Strange Marriage, by Netta Syrett ; A Book for Mothers, by Margaret Gordon ; Certain People, by Edith Wharton ; Defence at Auction Bridge, by J. R. Adams ; Vulgarity in Literature, by Aldous Huxley ; Euripides Alcestis, by Richard Aldington ; The New Providence, by R. H. Mottram ; Jutland : A Fragment of Epic, by Shane Leslie ; and Pick and the Duffers, by Kay Glasson Taylor, (p. 15).

Column - Includes the item 'Library List'. The works listed include : Over the Hills, by Jeffery Farnol ; Shallow Seas, by Richard Dehan (Clothilde Groves) ; The Cast-Iron Duke, by Stephen McKenna ; Peggy Leaves Home, by Richard Starr ; Jock the Scot, by Alice Grant Rosman ; Seed, by Charles Norris ; Straight Flame, by Phyllis Hambleton ; East is Always East, by Pamela Wynne (Winifred Scott), (p. 15).

Review - Includes the article 'Art in Australia', a review of the December 1930 issue of Art in Australia (featuring Norman Lindsay), by The Herald's art critic Blamire Young, (p. 15).