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Issue Details: First known date: 1931... vol. 3 no. 9 14 September 1931 of All About Books est. 1928 All About Books
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Notes

  • Cover features pencil sketch of Virgil captioned : The Authentic Virgil followed by a quote from Mackail's edition of The Aeneid describing a Mosaic portrait of the poet.
  • Alan Fraser reviews a crime fiction omnibus edited by Dorothy L. Sayers, Baring's In My End Is My Beginning, Dekobra's Phryne and A Son of Arizona by Charles Alden Seltzer.
  • Includes a letter from English writer and activist Ethel Mannin explaining that a recently released collection of her works is old material sold on by the publisher who held copyright.
  • Includes 'Best Sellers and A.B.A, Recommendations'.

Contents

* Contents derived from the 1931 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Some New Australian Books, Nettie Palmer , single work review
— Review of The Rue Tree : Poems Mary Gilmore , 1931 selected work poetry ; Songs and Poems : With an Introductory Essay on Poetry in Australia Brian Fitzpatrick , 1931 selected work poetry ; Earth Kindred James Devaney , 1931 selected work poetry ; The Getting of Wisdom Henry Handel Richardson , 1910 single work novel ; The Sands of Windee Arthur W. Upfield , 1931 single work novel ; The Butterfly with Big Feet Neville Hawthorn Smith , 1931 single work novel ; (p. 178-179)
The Free-Lance Club, Sydney [Meeting Report], single work column

Report of the Club's August events including Bedford's address on play writing and her donation of a copy of her one-act play Fear and a reading of Oakes' As Between Gentlemen.

 (p. 179)
A Bookseller Talks Shop, W. E. Fuller , single work prose humour
Fuller very briefly uses the supply of Robert Bridges The Testament of Beauty instead of And All That Beauty to illustrate what he perceives as a 'prejudice against Australian authors'.
 (p. 180)
Some Novels Reviewed, George H. Cowling , single work review
— Review of Madam Life's Lovers : A Human Narrative Embodying a Philosophy of the Artist in Dialogue Form Norman Lindsay , 1929 single work novel ;
Professor Cowling takes decency as his theme and emphasises the contrast between the 'decent vulgarity' of Mackenzie's Buttercups and Daisies and Lindsay's Madam Life's Lovers.
 (p. 181)
Everyman Books Some Comments and Queries, Nettie Palmer , single work criticism
Palmer gives a critical assessment of the Everyman Library. Concerned by what she regards as falling standards of production, she asks: "Are misprints in serious printed work a post-war phenomenon?"
 (p. 183)
'The Times' on Australian Stories, extract review (p. 184)
Four Australian Plays, single work column
Announcement for the Society's annual drama night where four short plays chosen from the annual drama competition were performed.
 (p. 184)
Australian Author Passes, single work obituary (p. 185)
Literature and Journalism, single work column (p. 189)
Society of Australian Authors [Meeting Report], single work column
Report of the Society's 'guest night' 29 August, held instead of the annual dinner postponed 'owing to the prevailing conditions'. The Society noted the deaths of Dyson and 'pioneer' member of the Society Williams. Cronin reported on the progress of the Anti-Dumping Committee, a subject first raised at the March meeting.
 (p. 190)
The Henry Lawson Memorial and Literary Society of Footscray [Meeting Report], J. C. Davies , single work column
This is the report of the Society's 15 July meeting. Baker gave an address on Franklin, readings were made from Lawson and others. The Society agreed to forward a donation to the benefit appeal for Steele Rudd.
 (p. 191)
Australian Literature Society [Meeting Report], Vida Lenox , single work column
Report of the 17 August meeting of the Society. The above works were reviewed.
 (p. 191)
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