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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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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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