Review - Includes 'Current Literature', the regular Saturday book review and literary column. The works reviewed include : My Early Life, by Winston Churchill ; Red Cross and Iron Cross, by Axel Munthe ; Benn's Sampler (a collection of extracts from works by contemporary writers, from publisher Ernest Benn) ; and Vagabonds and Puppets, by Walter Wilkinson, (p. 10).

Review - Includes the brief book-review column 'Shorter Notices'. The works reviewed include : A History of English Literature, by Emile Legouis and Louis Cazamian (the revised single volume edition) ; and Legends of the Flowers, by Janet Hepworth, (p. 10).

Column - Includes the column 'Publications Received'. The works listed include : West Australian Orchids, by Emily H. Pelloe ; Memories and Vagaries, by Axel Munthe ; Contract Bridge for All, by A. E. Manning Foster ; My Friend Mr. Edison, by Henry Ford (with Samuel Crowther) ; A Book of Lullabies, by F. E. Budd ; The Signature of Pain, and Other Poems, by Alan Porter ; Thirty-Nine Months with the 'Tigers', 1915-1918, by D. V. Kelly ; The Revolver Republic, by G. E. R. Gedye ; Ballads for Broadbrows, by A. P. Herbert ; The Crown of Honour, by William Moodie ; Old Sea Wings, Ways and Words, by R. C. Leslie ; The Animal Mind, by C. Lloyd Morgan ; Rattlin the Reefer, by Edward Howard ; Middlemarch, by George Eliot ; Amelia, by Henry Fielding ; Shorter Novels : Eighteenth Century (Vol. 3), edited by Philip Henderson ; Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann, by Johann Peter Eckermann (trans. Oxenford) ; Richard Cobden, by C. E. Mallet ; The Overseas Empire in Fiction, by Winifred C. Hill ; New Zealand Facts and Figures 1930 ; Portrait of a Dog, by Mazo de la Roche ; Management, by Herbert Casson ; The Resurrection of Rome, by G. K. Chesterton ; Cosima Wagner, by R. du Moulin-Echart, (p. 10).

Advertisement - Includes the Book Trade Co-operative's advertisement 'Give Books this Christmas', (p. 10). This advertisement appeared in The Sydney Morning Herald a number of times in the following weeks.

Contains the eighth instalment of Walter Henderson's serialised novel, Tom Hope, on p. 9.