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Issue Details: First known date: 1934... vol. 6 no. 7 12 July 1934 of All About Books est. 1928 All About Books
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Notes

  • On cover photograph captioned: Lady Hilton Young's bust of Adam Lindsay Gordon in Westminster Abbey.
  • Editor's note (p.132): Professor Cowling writes of England in reviewing a book on British fascism and another on war, and then reviews several novels.
  • Includes the first of Phil Grim's series of articles on dictionaries.

Contents

* Contents derived from the 1934 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
An All-Australian Bookshop, single work column
Announces the opening of Cottman and Laws' "all Australian" Waratah Bookshop in Melbourne.
 (p. 131)
A Reader's Notebook, Nettie Palmer , single work review
— Review of Starry Pages W. A. Amiet , 1934 selected work prose essay ; Collected Poems of John Shaw Neilson John Shaw Neilson , 1934 selected work poetry ; Old Days : Old Ways : A Book of Recollections Mary Gilmore , 1934 single work autobiography ; Tooth and Talon : Tales of the Australian Wild Henry G. Lamond , 1934 selected work short story ; Full Moon Bay William Pengreep , 1934 single work novel ;
Editor's note: This contribution illustrates not only the increasing output of Australian work, but also how diverse it is. The books reviewed include the collected poems of Shaw Neilson, Mary Gilmore's recollections, stories of Australian wild animals, a book of scientific essays, a book on fossils, a war record, and a novel!
 (p. 134-135, 142)
Adam Lindsay Gordon - English Opinions, Mary E. Fullerton , single work criticism
Editor's note: Such diverse opinions of the merit of Gordon's poems are held in Australia that the following judgments, given by English literary critics because of the placing of a bust of Gordon in Westminster Abbey, should interest all those concerned with Australian work. Reprints of criticism attributed to English papers and a letter recounting the unveiling from Fullerton to A.L.S. president James Booth.
 (p. 136-137)
Norman Lindsay's Banned Novel, K. G. R. Browne , single work review
— Review of The Cautious Amorist Norman Lindsay , 1932 single work novel ; (p. 137)
Praise for Philip Lindsay, single work review
— Review of London Bridge Is Falling : A Novel Philip Lindsay , 1934 single work novel ; (p. 137)
Best Sellers and A.B.A. Recommendations, single work column (p. 140)
Literature and the Law, Ronald G. McCredie , single work column (p. 144)
The Henry Lawson Memorial and Literary Society of Footscray [Meeting Report], J. C. Davies , single work column
Davies reports on: a change of president; the Sydney Society's fund-raising night of one act plays; the National Literary Fund (In Memory of Henry Lawson) and readings.
 (p. 146-147)
The Short Story, Doris Hayball , single work column (p. 147)
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