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Issue Details: First known date: 1934... vol. 6 no. 5 12 May 1934 of All About Books est. 1928 All About Books
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Notes

  • On cover: Picture of Leonard Slade from a pastel drawing by Sybil Craig.
  • Three brief announcements about the formation of a bookplate society in Melbourne, Dale Collins' return to Australia and Sydney writer C. D. Rooney's success with Stanley Paul Ltd. under his pen-name Grafton Bernard.

Contents

* Contents derived from the 1934 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Leonard Slade, single work column (p. 91)
A Reader's Notebook, Nettie Palmer , single work review
— Review of Australian Rhodes Review periodical (4 issues); Essays : Imaginative and Critical Chosen From Australian Writers 1933 anthology essay ; Maiden's Prayer Louise Mack , 1934 single work novel ; Princes Terrace Effie Marie Ford , 1934 single work novel ; God in the Sand : An Australian Mystical Romance Theodore Price , 1934 single work novel ; Threebrooks George Berrie , 1934 single work novel ; Where Gods Are Vain Frederick J. Thwaites , 1934 single work novel ;
Editor's Note: Mrs Palmer reviews the Australian Rhodes Review, a new collection of Australian Essays, a new book on the Constitution of Australia, and some new novels, and criticises the production of some of the books.
 (p. 96-97)
Best Sellers and A.B.A. Recommendations, single work column (p. 100)
Should Poets Be Subsidised?, M. H. MacFarlane , single work correspondence (p. 101)
The Henry Lawson Memorial and Literary Society of Footscray [Meeting Report], J. C. Davies , single work column

Society passes a motion praising the Herald for publishing Lawson's prose on a daily basis; Ford delivers an address on thought and the creative process.

 (p. 102-103)
Fellowship of Australian Writers [Meeting Report], Ronald G. McCredie , single work column
Angus and Robertson promise to sponsor an authors' dinner to conclude Book Week; Mackaness announces a monograph series; the first Fellowship handbook is released; O'Harris donates a portrait and joins the Fellowship.
 (p. 106)
Australian Literature Society [Meeting Report], single work column
"On Monday, 16 April, the programme dealt with the aims and functions of the A.L.S. and three papers on the subject were given." (p.106) Also includes report of a reception for Lang, Marlowe, Hatfield and Leslie Jauncey author of Australia's Government Bank and another for Kennedy.
 (p. 106-107)
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