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Issue Details: First known date: 1937... vol. 9 no. 2 12 February 1937 of All About Books est. 1928 All About Books
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Notes

  • Cover photograph captioned: Edward Harrington Whose Poems are Reviewed
  • Includes a very brief note of congratulation to Mary Gilmore on being made a Dame of the Order of the British Empire (p.24).
  • Includes payment details of the agreement on broadcasting from copyright books between the Publisher's Asscoiation of Great Britain and Ireland and the BBC.

Contents

* Contents derived from the 1937 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
All Sorts of Reading for Everyone: Literature in the U.S.A., single work review
While discussing van Wyck Brooks' The Flowering of New England the reviewer (probably Cowling) compares the development of American and Australian literatures concluding that Australian literature 'will not develop until 1950 or 1960'.
 (p. 18)
Play Competition, single work correspondence
Details of entry into the Club's annual competition to be judged in London and 'open only to Australian-born dramatists'.
 (p. 20)
New Australian Books, Frederick T. Macartney , single work review
— Review of Poems Lyrical and Descriptive James Kennedy , 1936 selected work poetry ; White Magic : Nature Fantasies and Other Poems M. Hamlyn-Harris , 1936 selected work poetry ; Boundary Bend and Other Ballads Edward Harrington , 1936 selected work poetry ; Big Timber 'William Hatfield' , 1936 single work novel ; Seed and Stubble Margaret Herron , 1936 single work novel ; Seeing the World Twice 1926-1935 T. Allan McKay , 1936 single work autobiography ; Through Darkest Pondelayo : An Account of the Adventures of Two English Ladies on a Cannibal Island Serena Livingstone-Stanley , 1936 single work novel ; (p. 21-23)
French Prizes for Articles, Kenneth Binns , single work correspondence
Includes a translation of a letter from the Secretary General of the Commissariat General au Tourisme (France) offering three annual cash prizes to 'foreign writers, journalists, or publicists, who have published, outside of the French frontiers, a work, a study or a series of articles on France from the tourist, health or climate viewpoint'.
 (p. 23)
Outstanding New Publications and Best Sellers, single work column
Best seller lists from England and America and A.B.A. list.
 (p. 29, 31)
Angus & Robertson in London, single work prose (p. 31)
'The Times' on The Sentimental Bloke, single work review
— Review of The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke C. J. Dennis , 1915 selected work poetry ;
Reprint of a review attributed to the Times on the release of the Selwyn and Blount imprint.
 (p. 31)
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