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Issue Details: First known date: 1930... vol. 2 no. 3 17 March 1930 of All About Books est. 1928 All About Books
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Notes

  • Includes an extensive review of Portrait of a Chinese Lady by Lady Hosie.
  • Also includes a reprint from The Sunday Times of Desmond MacCarthy's review of Edward Wagenknecht's The Man Charles Dickens. This includes an overview of the controversial works on Dickens published in the previous year.
  • Also includes 'Charles Lamb's Opinion of Daniel Defoe' and 'Why Novel Reading Matters to You' by Shaw Desmond.
  • MacFarlane recommends Colette's Cheri, Rahel Sanhara's The Lost Child, Charles Alden Seltzer's The Red Brand and The Methodist Faun by Anne Parrish in her column 'Novels I Think You Would Like to Read'.
  • 'Best-seller' lists from England, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand are included under the title 'What England and America are Reading'.
  • Includes a brief article 'War Books on Talkies' about the filming of All Quiet on the Western Front.
  • Includes an announcement of a course of twelve lectures on Australian poetry by C.R. Long by arrangement with the Workers Educational Committee.

Contents

* Contents derived from the 1930 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Annual Report 1929, E. C. Davidson , single work column
Davidson in her capacity as secretary reports on the Society's activity for the year. Includes acknowledgement of increase in membership due to exposure in All About Books.
 (p. 60)
Australian Plays, E. C. Davidson , single work review
Each play is reviewed separately. Davidson on the one hand praises Tennant's 'gift of humour and satire - rare things in a woman' but, on the other hand, laments Australian playwrights' insistence on 'stressing the sordid note when portraying a scene outback'.
 (p. 61)
A Reader's Notebook, Nettie Palmer , single work review
— Review of The Difficult Art Georgia Rivers , 1930 single work novel ; Ten Creeks Run : A Tale of the Horse and Cattle Stations of the Murrumbidgee Brent of Bin Bin , 1930 single work novel ; (p. 63-64)
A Bookseller Talks Shop, W. E. Fuller , single work column (p. 66-67)
Two Plays By Sir Arthur Pinero, E. C. Davidson , single work review (p. 71)
Some New Books Reviewed, Alan Fraser , single work review
— Review of Hilarities : The Thirty-Nine Indefinite Articles Hal Eyre , 1929 single work short story ; (p. 74, 76)
Some Odds and Ends, single work review
— Review of Story Time Sonia Hardie , 1929 single work poetry ; (p. 78)
Old Omar in a New Light, William Craig , single work criticism
Craig compares translations of The Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam including one by 'Sydney writer' Francis Dyson.
 (p. 80-81)
The Land of Dohori, single work review
— Review of In the Land of Dohori Alice Jeannetta Keelan , 1929 single work autobiography ; (p. 82-83)
Henry Kingsley, single work column
Brief item to mark the centenary of Kingsley's death.
 (p. 85)
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