AustLit

Review - Includes the Saturday literary column 'Mainly About Books', by 'Autolycus', which this week includes reviews of Fox-Hunting, by (Sir) Charles Frederick, and others ; Life of Milton, together with Observations on Paradise Lost, by the eighteenth century French writer Louis Racine (trans.John) ; Memories and Vagaries, by Axel Munthe ; Whistler, by James Laver, and also briefly mentions Ariadne in Mantua, by Vernon Lee, and Mrs. Gaskell and Her Friends, by Elizabeth Haldane, (p. 4).

Review - Includes the Saturday column 'Book Reviews', comprising lengthier reviews of recent publications. The works reviewed include : Heinrich Heine, by Herman Walter ; Impressions and Recollections, by (Brig.-General) F. P. Crozier ; and The Modern Dilemma, by Hugh L'Anson Fausset, (p. 4).

Review - Includes the Saturday column 'Some Recent Fiction', a series of brief paragraph length reviews of recent publications. The works reviewed include : Roc. A Dog's Eye View of War, by Edmund Vale ; Mysterious Waye, by P. C. Wren ; The Splendour of the Dawn, by John Oxenham ; Mr. Pottermack's Oversight, by R. Austin Freeman ; and Faber ; Or, the Lost Years, by Carl Jacob Wassermann, (trans. Hansen), (p. 4).

Review / Column - Includes the book-review column 'Australiana', by 'Telamon'. The works reviewed include : Myths and Legends of the Australian Aboriginals, by W. Ramsay Smith ; and Kowhai Gold : An Anthology of Contemporary New Zealand Verse, edited by Quentin Pope. 'Telamon' also notes that Vance Palmer's novel The Passage was published in England and America during September, (p. 4).

Advertisement - Includes a notice from the Perth Literary Institute, listing various recent additions to the Institute's library. The works include : And the Greeks, by Charles Graves ; The Englishman and His Books in the Early Nineteenth Century, by Amy Cruse ; A Modern Symposium, by G. Lowes Dickinson ; The Goslings, by Upton Sinclair ; The Golden Ape, by Herbert Adams ; Trio, by P. Bentley ; The Mink Coat, by Edith Brill ; Sea Loot, by A. D. Divine ; The Valiant Jester, by Maribel Edwin ; Nothing to Pay, by Caradoc Evans ; The Bainbridge Murder, by Cortland Fitzsimmons ; The Green Valley, by Norman Giles ; The Big Ben Alibi, by Neil Gordon ; The Selbys, by Anne Green ; The Shepherd of Guadaloupe, by Zane Grey ; Ten Days' Wonder, by Muriel Hine ; Not Without Laughter, by J. Langston Hughes ; Days of Her Life, by Wallace Irwin ; The Link, by Philip Macdonald ; The Little Town, by Heinrich Mann (trans. Ray) ; At the Back O' Beyond, by Richard Remnant ; Fishes All Alive ; by Margaret Scott Smith ; A Woman on Her Way, by John Van Druten ; Certain People, by Edith Wharton ; Credit-Power and Democracy, by C. H. Douglas ; Australia, by W. K. Hancock ; The Reconstruction of India, by Edward Thompson, (p.4).

Column - Includes the column 'New Books and Reprints', which lists a number of recent publications. The works listed include : Sunlit Trails, by Archer Russell ; The Empire Crusade, by (Senator) R. C. D. Elliott ; Bapu Gandhi, by A. B. Piddington ; Sentimental Essays, by James R. Pound ; The Story of Princess Elizabeth, by Anne Ring ; More Points of View : A Second Series of Broadcast Addresses, by The Archbishop of York, etc. ; An Economic History of Australia, by Edward Shann ; Dream Days, by Kenneth Grahame ; The Book of Howlers, by H. Cecil Hunt ; The Conquest of Happiness, by Bertrand Russell ; Social Control of Sex Expression, by Geoffrey May ; A Year on the Great Barrier Reef, by C. M. Yonge ; The Practical Dog Book, by Edward C. Ash ; A Book for Mothers, by Margaret Gordon ; Let's See the Lowlands, by A. A. Thomson ; Mary Baker Eddy, by Lyman P. Powell ; Winter Sports, edited by Neville Lytton ; Empire Free Trade, by Lord Beaverbrook ; The Magic and Mysteries of Mexico, by Lewis Spence ; Mary of Scotland, by Grant R. Francis ; God and Everyman, by (Rev.) Desmond Morse-Boycott ; Over the Hills, by Jeffery Farnol ; Outlaws of Chilberg's Valley, by Charles W. Sanders ; Caesar, by Mirko Jelusich ; Wife of Hess, by F. E. Mills Young ; The Rhododendron Man, by J. Aubrey Tyson ; Fortune of War, by Duncan Grinnell-Milne ; Certain People of Importance, and Saturday's Child, both by Kathleen Norris ; Horror Comes to Thripplands, by Gilbert Collins ; Then A Soldier, by George Braham ; and Strange Marriage, by Netta Syrett, (p. 5).

Column - Includes the item 'Novels Worth Reading', a list of recently published books, nominated by The Australian and New Zealand Booksellers' Association, 'as a guide to fiction of merit'. The list is divided into three categories, and includes : (under 'General Literature') - Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, by Siegfried Sassoon ; As We Were, by E. F. Benson ; The Village Book, by Henry Williamson ; Travellers' Luck, by E. V. Lucas ; Must England Lose India?, by (Lt. Col.) A. Osburn ; Speaking Personally , by Walter Murdoch ; Life's Panorama, by J. A. Gurner ; Bligh of the Bounty, by Geoffrey Rawson ; War Letters of Fallen Englishmen, (ed. Housman) ; Through Unknown Africa, by William Jaspert ; Night Raiders of the Air, by A. R. Kingsford ; The White Man's Garden, by Mervyn Skipper ; (under 'Novels of Literary Merit') - : Roads to Glory, by Richard Aldington ; The Wooden Woman, by Alexander Townsend ; Her Father's House, by Hilda Vaughan ; (under 'Novels for Popular Reading') - The Minion, by Rafael Sabatini ; Sailors of Fortune, by William McFee ; The Middle Watch, by Ian Hay and Stephen King Hall ; Jacaranda Nield, by Sheila Macdonald ; To What Green Altar?, by W. B. Maxwell ; The Calendar, by Edgar Wallace ; Golden Dawn, by Peter B. Kyne ; Masquerade, by Cecily Sidgwick ; Exit, by Harold Bell Wright ; That Wild Lie, by Naomi Jacob ; Behind the Lines, by W. F. Morris ; The Trail to Paradise, by Jackson Gregory ; Adrian Glynde, by Martin Armstrong ; Me and Francis, by A. Armstrong ; The Beloved Adventuress, by Edmund D'Auvergne ; Backwater, by T. S. Stribling ; The Millionaire Tramp, by Henry St. John Cooper ; Nothing to Pay, by Carodoc Evans ; The Passage, by Vance Palmer, (p. 5).

Column - Includes the column 'Stories New and Old', by 'John Faithful', a series of brief iterary items and humorous anecdotes. Includes references to the books : Taxi!, by Anthony Armstrong ; Musical Laughs, by Henry Finck ; Hims Ancient and Modern, by Jimmy Glover ; Practically True, by Ernest Thesiger ; and Ghost Tales and Legends, by Drummond Gauld, (p. 5).