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Notes
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This issue contains no serial instalment. The AWM published an apology on page 5, stating they were still waiting for the manuscript of Dorothy Cottrell's Earth Battle. The apology read as follows:
'We crave the indulgence of readers in regard to the new serial "Earth-Battles" [sic] by Dorothy Cottrell. The elusive manuscript has still not put in an appearance! However, an American mail arriving next week should land it in time for our next issue.
That the story is worth waiting for may be judged from the comment of Messrs. Hodder and Stoughton, who are to publish it in book form. They describe "Earth-Battlers" as "a stupendous piece of work and apparently effortless."
Dorothy Cottrell herself says: "I have tried to do something better than I managed to do in Singing Gold'".'
Contents
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The Silver Tree,
single work
short story
(p. 4, 54 - 55)A woman asks her patronising artist husband to paint a poplar tree that fills her with emotion. He condescendingly agrees, seeing it as no more than a picture of the backyard, but one of his valued buyers does not agree with him.
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Growing Old Gracefully,
single work
short story
(p. 6, 52 - 53)A woman has not seen the man she hopes to marry for five years because he has been working in New Guinea. She fears his reaction when he sees how she has aged.
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The Scar,
single work
short story
(p. 7, 50 - 51)An Adelaide woman, now a countess, tells the story of her first husband, who went missing in action during World War I. When she sees a man who resembles her husband a scar on her arm is the key to solving the mystery of his identity and the fate of her husband.
- If I But Knewi"And has she come,", single work poetry (p. 14)
- A Fairingi"'A singing-bird or a daffodil,", single work poetry (p. 15)
- Sonnet : To Elizabethi"My little laughing babe, how good is God", single work poetry (p. 16)
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Untitled,
single work
review
— Review of As It Was in the Beginning 1929 selected work short story ; (p. 24) Section: Let's Talk About Books -
Untitled,
single work
review
— Review of Bib and Bub in Gumnut Town 1929 single work children's fiction ; (p. 41) Section: Let's Talk About Books - From a Window-Boxi"The vines sprawl over the whitewashed wall,", single work poetry (p. 58)
