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Issue Details: First known date: 1930... 7 December 1930 of The Sunday Sun [Sydney] est. 1903-1953 The Sun
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Notes

  • Advertisement - Includes Gordon and Gotch's advertisement for Arthur Mee's The Children's Encyclopedia (10 volumes), here recommended as a Christmas gift, (p. 23).
  • Includes 'Turns with a Bookworm', the weekly literature and book review page, (p. 25).
  • Review - The books reviewed include : David Golder, by Irene Nemirovsky ; The Greatest Game, by C. Lestock Reid ; The Bracelet, by Robert Hichens ; Jacaranda Nield, by Sheila Macdonald ; Backdoor Guest, by James Lennox Kerr ; Gone North, by Charles Alden Seltzer ; Twelve Men, by Theodore Dreiser ; The Red Head from Sundog, by W. C. Tuttle ; Revelation, by Andre Birabeau (trans. Una 'Lady' Troubridge) ; The Fire Within, by George Gibbs ; The Hollywood Murder Mystery, by Herbert Crooker ; and The White Man's Garden, by Mervyn Skipper, (p. 25).
  • Review - Includes the column 'Short Notices', a series of brief paragraph-length reviews. The works reviewed include : Don't Be Tired, a health rejuvination manual, by (Dr.) Peter Schmidt (trans. Chadwick) ; Twice Dead, by Ethel Mary Channon ; The Mystery on the Moor, by J. Jefferson Farjeon ; Sir John Hawkins, by Philip Gosse ; and The Peering One, by Evander Murray, (p. 25).
  • Column - Includes the item 'Give a Book!', which makes a number of children's Christmas book suggestions. These include : The Jolly Book for Boys and The Jolly Book for Girls, both edited by Edwin Chisholm ; The Railway Book for Boys, by Ellison Hawks ; The Chummy Book (Nelson's) ; The Girls' All-Round Book of Stories, Sports and Hobbies, by Mrs Walter Wood ; Jean's Two Schools, by Ethel Talbot ; Who Goes There?, by Harold Avery ; The Children's Book of Pantomimes (Cassells) ; A Child's Charles Dickens, edited by Patrick Braybrook ; The Hostages, by Naomi Mitchison ; Tales of the Norsemen, by Arthur F. Wallis ; Greek Nature Stories, by E. Illif Robson ; Roy Chapman Andrews : Dragon Hunter, by Fitzhugh Green ; Tales and Legends from India, by Dorothy M. Belgrave and Hilda Hart ; Legends of Animals Far and Near, by Rose Yeatman Woolf ; The Little People's Annual (Raphael Tuck) ; Father Tuck's Annual ; Bunny and Brownie, by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite ; The World's Best Stories for Children, selected by Winifred Biggs ; The Country Church, by Washington Irving ; Mrs Battle's Opinions on Whist, by Charles Lamb ; The Golden Forest, by Edith Howes ; The Gang on Wheels, by D. Lindsay Thompson ; Haunted Island, by Isabel M. Peacocke ; There Came a Call, by Lilian Turner ; Forty Stories a collection of stories by Hans Christian Andersen ; The Four Leaf Clover, by Owen Rutter ; Mostly Mary, by Gwynned Rae, and Jim and the Dragon, by Susan Charlotte Buchan (Baroness Tweedsmuir), (p. 25).

  • Column - Includes the column 'Books Received'. The books listed include : Fiction - The Dragon Tree, by Rachel Swete Macnamara ; The King's Curate, by Dorita Fairlie Bruce ; Where Will You Fall?, by Leo Perutz (trans. Singer) ; Jim Redlake, by Francis Brett Young ; Susan Price, by Edith C. Brown ; The Isle of Dreames, by H. F. Birkett ; Mr Scribbles, by Oliver Sandys ; The Gladiator, by Nikolai Gubsky ; A Middle-Class Man, by Leonhard Frank (trans. Brooks) ; The Parson and Clerk, by George Woden ; They Die Young, by John Sommerfield ; A Woman with White Eyes, by Mary Borden ; Rich and Strange, by Dale Collins ; The Lady of Ascot, by Edgar Wallace ; Rynox, by Philip Macdonald ; The Elephant's Head, by 'Bartimeus' ( Lewis Anselm da Costa Ricci / Lewis Ritchie) ; Chaffee of Roaring Horse, by Ernest Haycox ; Outlaws of Chilberg's Valley, by Charles Wesley Sanders. General - Verney Letters of the Eighteenth Century from the MSS at Claydon House (2 Vols.), by (Lady) Margaret Verney ; Mahatma Gandhi : His Own Story, by C. F. Andrews ; Management : The Secret of Increased Net Profits, by Herbert N. Casson ; Thy Servant a Dog, by Rudyard Kipling ; The Revolver Republic, by G. E. R. Gedye ; Charing Cross Bridge, by Arthur Keen ; Hunters' Moon, by (Capt.) E. G. Roberts ; The Best of Low (Low was a cartoonist with The Evening Standard) ; The Story of the Gypsies, by Konrad Bercovici ; Selected Poems, by Maurice Baring ; Jesus : Lord or Leader?, by Frank Lenwood ; Combined Figure and Ice-Valsing, by (Col.) H. Vaughan Kent ; Letters to Frederick Tennyson, edited by Hugh J. Schonfield ; Old Sea Wings, Ways, and Words, by R. C. Leslie ; The Man They Couldn't Escape, by Prosper Buranelli ; This Human Nature, by Charles Duff ; New Wars : New Weapons, by (Commander) Joseph Montague Kenworthy ; My Friend Mr. Edison, by Henry Ford ; The End of the World, by Geoffrey Dennis ; The Adventure of Paul of Tarsus, by (Rev.) H. F. B. Mackay. Children's Books - The Heroes of Asgard, by A. and E. Keary ; True Tales of an Old Shellback, by Stephen Southwold, (p. 25).
  • Advertisement - Includes the item 'Give Book Presents', an advertisement for Dymock's 72 page Christmas Catalogue. This advertisement appeared in The Sun a number of times in the following weeks, (p. 25).

Contents

* Contents derived from the 1930 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
More Tales from Borneo, single work review
— Review of The White Man's Garden : A Tale of Borneo Mervyn Skipper , 1930 selected work children's fiction ;
(p. 25)

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