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Review - Includes 'Current Literature', the regular Saturday book review and literary column. The works reviewed include : Life's Panorama, by J. A. Gurner ; The Strange Death of President Harding, by Gaston B. Means ; Goldseekers and Bushrangers in New Zealand, by J. R. Elder ; and A Hundred Lyrics, by Eden Phillpotts, (p. 10).

Review - Includes the brief book-review column 'Shorter Notices'. The works reviewed include : An Elementary Textbook of the Laws of England, by (Judge) Alfred Henry Ruegg ; Myths and Legends of Many Lands, by Evelyn Smith ; and Vaino, by Julia D. Adams, (p. 10).

Column - Includes the column 'Publications Received'. The works listed include : Messalina, by H. Stadelmann ; The Victorian Tragedy, by E. C. W. Stratford ; Annals of Crime, by W. H. Williamson ; The Study and Teaching of History and Civics, by C. H. Currey ; Sunlit Trails, by Archer Russell ; The Eagle and the Serpent, by Martin Luis Guzman ; Nation Building and Beyond, by N. M. Butler ; The History and Problems of the Northern Territory of Australia, by A. Grenfell Price ; Military Operations : Egypt and Palestine (3 vols.), by (Capt.) Cyril Falls ; The Modern Dilemma, by Hugh Fausset ; Eight Victorian Poets, by F. L. Lucas ; How it Happened, by Rhoda Power ; My Friend Mr. Edison, by Henry Ford, with Samuel Crowther ; Turkey, by A. T. Waugh ; Theodore Roosevelt, by Owen Wister ; Moliere, by J. L. Palmer ; A Victorian Dean : A Memoir of Arthur Stanley, Dean of Westminster, by A. V. Baillie and H. H. Bolitho ; Palace Plays, by Laurence Housman ; Echoes of the South Seas, by Don Gordon ; Ballads for Broadbrows, by A. P. Herbert ; Kowhai Gold, edited by Quentin Pope ; Captain Banner, by George R. Preedy ; Leaves from the Indian Forests, by S. E. Wilmot ; Letters to Frederick Tennyson, Edited by H. J. Schonfield ; Enchantments of the Field, by H. A. Bryden ; The Collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, by E. Von Claise-Horstenau ; Melody and the Lyric, from Chaucer to the Cavaliers, by J. M. Gibbon ; The Life and Death of Roger Casement, by Denis Gwynn ; A History of Russia, by Nikolai Chaninov ; New Imperial Ideals, by Robert Stokes ; Everyday Marvels of Science, by V. H. L. Searle ; Fly Fishing, by (Viscount) Edward Grey ; A Year on the Great Barrier Reef, by C. M. Yonge ; The Bright World, and Other Poems, by Charles Norman ; The Annual, by Dorothy Wellesley ; and recent issues of the magazines : The Sydneian (the Sydney Grammar School magazine); Berliner Monatshefte ; The World's Health ; and the University of Edinburgh Journal, (p. 10).

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 ; The Beloved Adventuress, by E. B. D'Auvergne ; Imperial Palace, by Arnold Bennett ; The Rake and the Hussey, and The Painted Minx, 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. Paige ; Fire of Youth, by Margaret Pedler ; The Knife Through the Ace, by W. M. Raine ; Tiny Carteret, by 'Sapper' ; 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 ; Golden Dawn, by Peter B. Kyne ; The Duel of the Queens, by E. Barrington ; 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 Joseph C. Lincoln ; Sailors of Fortune, by W. McFee ; The Dean's Elbow, by A. E. W. Mason ; Marivosa, by (Baroness) Emmuska Orczy ; The Passage, by Vance Palmer ; Angel Pavement, by J. B. Priestley ; The Door, by M. 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 ; and 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 John Galsworthy ; The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam ; 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 J. M. Barrie ; and Captain James Cook, R. N., by (Sir ) Joseph Carruthers, (p. 10).

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 ; Jock the Scot, by Alice Grant Rosman ; Speaking Personally, by Walter Murdoch ; Old Eko's Note-Book, by Nathan F. Spielvogel ; Seventh Heaven, by Nina Murdoch ; 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 ; and various children's 'Little Books', by Wilhelmina Stich (p. 29).

Contains the twentieth instalment of Walter Henderson's serialised novel, Tom Hope, on p. 6.