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Cover features a photograph of Theodore Dreiser captioned : One of the authors who look as if they would write the kind of books they do.
Includes the regular column 'A Bookseller Talks Shop' and a lengthy reprint from the Times Literary Supplement reviewing works on Wordsworth.
Memoirs and a collection of ghost stories are reviewed in 'Some New Books Reviewed'.
In 'Cricket' John Quill reviews The Tests of 1930 and Don Bradman's Book.
'News and Notes' also includes 'More Cheap Editions', 'Important Development in Publication of Cheaper Books' and photographs of Thornton Wilder and E. V. Lucas.
Also includes reviews of adventure books by Phil Grim.
Wicking very briefly reviews popular fiction title in 'Mystery, Murder and Wild West'.
Also includes a review of the memoirs of Seymour Hicks, and 'The Art of Reading' an extract from a paper by Aldous Huxley.

* Contents derived from the 1931 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.

Two Books Reviewed, George H. Cowling , single work review (p. 34-35)

A Reader's Notebook, Nettie Palmer , single work review
— Review of The Yellow Cygnet Harold Redcliffe , 1930 single work novel ; The Golden Plague : A Romance of the Roaring 'Fifties Wilfred C. Busse , 1930 single work novel ; (p. 36-37)