Advertisement - Includes an advertisement for The Sunbeams Book (No. 7), the Ginger Meggs annual produced by The Sun, (p. 21).
Includes 'Turns with a Bookworm', the weekly literature and book review page , (p. 29 ).
Review - The books reviewed include : Parliamentary Government : A Failure?, by (Sir) Frank Fox ; The Print Collector's Quarterly (October 1930) ; The Trail of the Buzzard, by Robert J. Horton ; Pearls, Arms and Hashish, by Henri de Monfried and Ida Treat ; Touchstone, by Ben Ames Williams ; The Jazz Widow, by May Christie ; Green Lane : Or, Murder at Moat Farm, by Alec Brown ; Ballads for Broadbrows, by A. P. Herbert ; Billiards, by Walter Lindrum ; The Papyrus Ebers, translated by Cyril P. Bryan ; Rich and Strange, by Dale Collins ; The Freedom of the Seas, by (Lt. Col.) W. G. MacKendrick ; Two Years, by Liam O'Flaherty ; The Maltese Falcon, by Dashiell Hammett ; and Twenty-Four Hours, by Louis Bromfield, (p. 29).
Review - Includes the column 'Short Notices', a series of brief paragraph-length reviews. The works reviewed include : The Emperor Karl, by Arthur (Count) Polzer-Holditz (trans. Tait and Flint) ; The Strange Death of President Harding, by May Dixon Thacker ; Taxi, by Anthony Armstrong ; Pictures and People, by Roger Hinks ; Sunlit Trails, by Archer Russell ; The Blue Vesuvius, by Anthony Wynne ; Account Paid, by Collin Brooks ; and Thou Hast a Devil, by Ray Coryton Hutchinson, (p. 29).
Column - Includes the column 'Books Received'. The books listed include : Fiction - The Secret of High Eldersham, by Miles Burton ; Murder at the Pageant, by Victor L. Whitechurch ; The Mysterious Mademoiselle, by Francis D. Grierson ; Last and First Men, by W. Olaf Stapledon ; Adventures and Fantasy, by Henry A. Hering ; The Rhododendron Man, by J. Aubrey Tyson ; Tares, by (Captain) A. E. Dingle ; Esme's Sons, by A. R. Weekes ; White Raiment, by Cecil H. Bullivant ; Over the Hills, by Jeffery Farnol ; Dumb Animal and Other Stories, by Osbert Sitwell ; To-Morrow, by F. Britten Austin ; Jock the Scot, by Alice Grant Rosman ; Jim Redlake, by Francis Brett Young. General - The Story of Fergie Bey, by V. H. Fergusson ; The Case for the Sea-Serpent, by R. T. Gould ; Biography for Beginners, by C. Bentley and G. K. Chesterton ; Defence at Auction Bridge, by J. R. Adams ; Stories from the Operas, by Gladys Davidson ; The Tests of 1930, by P. G. H. Fender ; For What ?, by Barbara Cartland ; Pam's Own Story, by (Baroness) Bettina Von Hutten ; Morning Sorrow, by John Rothenstein ; Decent Fellows, by John Heygate ; Problems of Life and Existence, by 'Pensulo' ; The World, the House, and the Bar, by (Sir) Ellis Hume Williams ; A Year on the Great Barrier Reef, by C. M. Yonge ; The Jameson Raid, by Hugh Marshall Hole ; The Psychology of Clothes, by J. C. Flugel ; Let's See the Lowlands, by A. A. Thomson, (p. 29).
Advertisement - Includes Sydney bookseller Angus & Robertson's two-column advertisement for Christmas gift book suggestions. These include : 'Just Out Books' - Mary Baker Eddy : A Life Size Portrait, by Lyman P. Powell ; Pick and the Duffers, by Kay Glasson Taylor ; Great Short Stories of the War, edited by H. Cotton Minchin ; An Anthography of the Eucalypts, by Russell C. Grimwade ; Speaking Personally, by Walter Murdoch ; Seventh Heaven, by Nina Murdoch ; Jock the Scot, by Alice Grant Rosman ; Old Eko's Note-Book, by Nathan F. Spielvogel ; Let's See the Lowlands, and The Happy Windmill, both by A. A. Thomson. The Best 2/6/Gift Books - Miss Emily in Black Lace, by Nina Murdoch ; The Great Hill Climb, by Alex P. Campbell ; Lady - This is Love!, by Irene Bueno de Mesquita ; Expectant Fathers, by D. V. Martin ; Story Time, by Sonia Hardie, (p. 29).
Advertisement - Includes Sydney bookseller Dymock's two column advertisement 'Give Books This Xmas!' The books listed include : 'Outstanding Novels' - The Good Companions, and Angel Pavement, both by J. B. Priestley ; Golden Dawn, by Peter B. Kyne ; Imperial Palace, by Arnold Bennett ; The Painted Minx, and The Rake and the Hussy, both by R. W. Chambers ; Only the Morning, by John Dalley ; The Folded Paper Mystery, and The Viper, both by Hulbert Footner ; The Trail to Paradise, by Jackson Gregory ; The Bracelet, by Robert Hichens ; Swan House, by (Baroness) Bettina Von Hutten ; The Town of Tombarel, by W. J. Locke ; Jacaranda Nield, by Sheila Macdonald ; Rice, by Louise Jordan Miln ; The Lover of Lamballe, by H. G. Page ; Fire of Youth, by Margaret Pedler ; Tiny Carteret, by 'Sapper' (H. C. Macneile) ; All Our Yesterdays, by H. M. Tomlinson ; The Autocracy of Mr. Parham, by H. G. Wells ; Shallow Seas, by Richard Dehan ; The Fool of the Family, by Margaret Kennedy ; Out of Great Tribulation, by H. A. Vachell ; The Beloved Adventuress, by E. B. D'Auvergne ; The Duel of the Queens, by E. Barrington ; Green Timber, by J. O. Curwood ; Storm Drift, by Ethel M. Dell ; The Fire Within, by George Gibbs ; Fighting Caravans, by Zane Grey ; Pilgrim's Ford, by Muriel Hine ; Blowing Clear, by J. C. Lincoln ; Sailors of Fortune, by W. MacFee ; The Dean's Elbow, by A. E. W. Mason ; Marivosa, by (Baroness) Emmuska Orczy ; The Passage, by Vance Palmer ; The Door, by Mary R. Rinehart ; Mistress of Ceremonies, by N. K. Strange ; The Dark Secret, by Alison Vivian ; Exit, by Harold Bell Wright ; Belshazzar, by H. Rider Haggard ; The Calendar, by Edgar Wallace ; Over the Hills, by Jeffery Farnol. 'General Literature' - Great Essays of All Nations, edited by F. H. Pritchard ; Human History, by G. E. Smith ; My Mystery Ships, by G. Campbell ; A Scandinavian Summer, by H. A. Franck ; New Worlds to Conquer, by Richard Halliburton ; Seeing Germany, by E. M. Newman ; Glimpses of the Great, by G. S. Viereck ; The Romance of a Modern Airway, by Harry Harper ; Turning Points in History, by Frederick E. S. (the Earl of) Birkenhead ; The Plays of J. M. Barrie ; Jock the Scot, by Alice Grant Rosman ; Potted Biographies, by S. Elliott Napier ; The Outline of History, by H. G. Wells ; Ends of the Earth, by R. C. Andrews ; In Quest of the Sun, by Alain Gerbault ; The Home of the Blizzard, by Douglas Mawson ; Queen Elizabeth, by Katherine Anthony ; Great Italian Short Stories, edited by D. Petoello ; Great Sea Stories of All Nations, edited by H. M. Tomlinson ; The Plays of John Galsworthy ; and Loyalties, both by John Galsworthy ; The Wanderer of Liverpool, by John Masefield ; The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam ; The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson, (p. 29).
