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Issue Details: First known date: 1937... vol. 9 no. 5 12 May 1937 of All About Books est. 1928 All About Books
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Contents

* Contents derived from the , 1937 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
All Sorts of Reading for Everyone, George H. Cowling , M. M. Cowling , single work column (p. 66-68)
List of Literary Pilgrimages, Richard Geraint , single work correspondence
Geraint offers to publish details of pilgrimages in The Australian Authors and Artists' Handbook
 (p. 68)
Honouring the Memory of Grace Jennings Carmichael, Charles R. Long , single work column (p. 68)
New Australian Books, Frederick T. Macartney , single work review
— Review of The Picnic Martin Boyd , 1937 single work novel ; The Tramp and Other Stories Dal Stivens , 1936 selected work short story ; Plaque with Laurel M. Barnard Eldershaw , 1937 single work novel ; Old Man Murray Will Lawson , 1937 single work novel ; Backs to the Wall G. D. Mitchell , 1937 single work autobiography ; (p. 69-70)
Outstanding New Publications and Best Sellers, single work column
Best seller lists from England and America and A.B.A. list of new publications. Plaque with Laurel is "confidently recommended as above the ordinary". The Picnic is listed without comment in the Lighter Popular Novels section of the A.B.A. list.
 (p. 72-73)
Remembering Marcus Clarke and Henry Kendall, single work column (p. 74)
The Australian Poetry Lovers' Society [Meeting Report and] Original Poem Prize Competition, Samson Strong , single work column (p. 75)
Australian Composers and Writers' Association, Melbourne [Meeting Report], Margaret Boyd , single work column
Clinton reads her own work, Edward Turner recites from Harrington and Campbell speaks with "entertaining wit and humour...of the trials and tribulations suffered by authors".
 (p. 75)
Melbourne Writers' Club [Meeting Report], Dorothy Blewett , single work column
Description of the meeting of 29 April where members stories were read (without disclosure of the author) and assessed.
 (p. 75)
The Henry Lawson Memorial and Literary Society of Footscray [Meeting Report], J. C. Davies , single work column
notes from the meeting of 21 April where Long delivered an address and Lawson's influences.
 (p. 75-76)
John o' London's Literary Circle (Sydney Branch) [Meeting Report], Kenneth Batley , single work column
Report of the meetings of 30 March and 27 April. Clunies Ross spoke on 'The Social Function of Fiction' and Batchelor on 'Human Character'.
 (p. 76-77)
Lindsay Gordon Lovers' Society [Meeting Report], single work column
Report of the meeting of 17 April. Includes "a graphic account" of the commemoration for Jennings Carmichael at Orbost; a recitation of 'The Sick Stockrider'; Daley on 'Gone' and the performance of the "playlet" 'The Last Hours of the Poet Gordon' by Robert Khyat.
 (p. 78)
Australian Literature Society [Annual Meeting Report], M. J. (fl. 1937) , single work column
Serle speaks on the first two novels by Velia Ercole (who was in Australia writing her third) followed by Cottman on Lindsay's work. "Attention was directed" to Palmer's work in progress on Stephens.
 (p. 78-79)
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