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Issue Details: First known date: 1933... vol. 5 no. 6 10 June 1933 of All About Books est. 1928 All About Books
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Notes

  • On cover (in place of photograph): We commend to you an excellent review of eight novels by W.F. Bishop, some sound advice to Australasian authors by Prof. G. H. Cowling, Nettie Palmer's 'Notebook' of new Australian Books, a sample of the work of James Joyce, and some interesting topics in reports from Literary Societies.
  • Issue includes a photograph of Edith Wharton.
  • Also includes "What is a Bohemian?", Grim's review of Walter Starkie's Raggle-Taggle: Adventures With a Fiddle in Hungary and Roumania.
  • Includes Nettie Palmer's review of a biography of Russian exiles.

Contents

* Contents derived from the 1933 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Pot-pourri, W. F. Bishop , single work criticism
Bishop suggests that the output of some publishers has dropped in standard.
 (p. 82-83)
Novelists Should Read This, George H. Cowling , single work criticism
Cowling recommends Cather's Obscure Destinies and Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra to Australian authors.
 (p. 86)
A Reader's Notebook, Nettie Palmer , single work review
— Review of Bring the Monkey : A Light Novel Miles Franklin , 1933 single work novel ; Quartette Leslie Meller , 1932 single work novel ; A Leaf of Laurel : A Novel Leslie Meller , 1933 single work novel ; Among the Reeds 'Jane Laker' , 1933 single work novel ; Pageant G. B. Lancaster , 1933 single work novel ; (p. 87)
Best Sellers and A.B.A. Recommendations, single work column (p. 88)
Super-Thrillers, G. W. Wicking , single work review
— Review of Spies Are Abroad J. M. Walsh , 1933 single work novel ; The Chief Carlton Dawe , 1933 single work novel ; (p. 90)
The Henry Lawson Memorial and Literary Society of Footscray [Meeting Report], J. C. Davies , single work column
Davies reports on Will Craig's paper "Life and Literature in Australia" in which he suggests that a government body be established so that Australians "might have some security against rubbish" in the guise of literature.
 (p. 92)
Fellowship of Australian Writers [Meeting Report], Neil J. Myers , single work column (p. 93)
Neglected Australian Authors, Doris Hayball , single work column (p. 94-95)
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