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Advertisement - Includes Melbourne bookseller Robertson & Mullens' advertisement for a range of books and stationary items, here recommended as Christmas gifts. The books listed include : 'Gift Books for All' - A Modern Comedy, by John Galsworthy ; Over the Hills, by Jeffery Farnol ; In Quest of the Sun, by Alain Gerbault ; The Quicksands of the City, by Hartley Withers ; The Destiny of the British Empire and the U. S. A., by 'The Roadbuilder' (W. G. Mackendrick) ; What Can a Man Believe?, by Bruce Barton ; The Wild Swan : Poems, by Mary Gilmore ; Selected Poems, by Bernard O'Dowd ; Solo To Sydney, by F. C. Chichester ; The Australian Gardener, by L. H. Brunning ; Ballads for Broadbrows, by A. P. Herbert ; Guests of the Unspeakable, by (Lt. Col.) T. W. White ; Disraeli, by Andre Maurois (trans. Miles) ; The Native Flowers of Victoria, by E. E. Prescott. 'Gift Books for Men' - The Tests of 1930, by P. G. H. Fender ; Mysterious Waye ; Soldiers of Misfortune ; Beau Geste ; Beau Sabreur ; Beau Ideal ; Good Gestes ; and The Mammon of Righteousness ; all by P. C. Wren ; The World's Population Problems and a White Australia, by H. L. Wilkinson ; The Patriot's Progress, by H. Williamson ; Deadman's Bay, by L. A. Knight ; Mr. Prohack, by Arnold Bennett ; Getting Wickets, by C. Grimmett ; Only the Morning, by John Dalley ; The Virgin and the Gypsy, by D. H. Lawrence ; Salome, or the Wandering Jewess, by G. S. Viereck and P. Eldridge ; The Son Avenger, by Sigrid Undset ; Over the Hills, by Jeffery Farnol. 'Gift Books for Women' - Naked and Alone, by D. M. Hill ; The Millionaire Tramp, by Henry St. John Cooper ; The 'Olio' Cookery Book, by L. Sykes ; The Thunderer, by E. Barrington ; The Plays of J. M. Barrie ; The Letters of Queen Victoria, 1896-1901, edited by George Earle Buckle ; The Letters of Gertrude Bell, selected and edited by (Lady) Florence Bell ; Marri'd, and Other Verses, by Mary Gilmore ; Mad Interlude, by Aylwin Martin, (p. 6).

Other works on Robertson and Mullens' list include : 'Handy Books for the Holidays' - Herald Road Guide, 1931 ; Shell Motor Tours of Victoria (a map) ; Our Own Birds of Australia, by E. A. Vidler. 'Gift Books for Younger People' - The Little Black Princess of the Never Never, by Aeneas Gunn ; The Meeting Pool, and The White Man's Garden, both by Mervyn Skipper ; Bungoona, by Arthur Russell ; Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, by J. M. Barrie ; A Gum Tree Brownie, by T. Quinn ; The Complete History of the Bastable Family, by E. Nesbit ; The Adventures of Tommy, by H. G. Wells ; The Children's John Bunyan, arranged by Arthur Mee ; The Oxford Annual for Children ; The Oxford Annual for Boys ; The Oxford Annual for Girls ; The School Friend Annual ; Collins' Children's Annual ; The Chicks' Own Annual. 'Technical Books' - Shaping Your Career, by William J. Caton Norris ; International Poultry Book, by George Woodward ; Why We Behave Like Human Beings, by George A. Dorsey ; The Willis World-Time Indicator, by J. H. Willis ; A Complete Course of Practical Flying, by G. L. P. Henderson ; Henley's ABC of Gliding and Sailflying, edited by Victor W. Page ; Home-Made Toys for Boys and Girls ; The Young Artist, by W. Foulsham ; Feeding the Child, by I. R. Ross ; The Canine King, by James L. Moore (edited by Frank Russell) ; The Australian Gardener, by Leslie H. Brunning, Livelihood, by (Prof.) J. Alexander Gunn, and the poem/song An Australian Hymn, by J. L. Menzies and Mervyn Woinarski. The magazines listed include : Britannia and Eve ; The Connoisseur ; The Golfer's Magazine ; The American Golfer ; Pictorial Education ; Vogue ; The Economic Record ; Art in Australia ; Miss Modern ; Modern Home ; The Illustrated London News ; Holly Leaves ; The Sketch ; Graphic ; Sphere ; The Tattler ; Australia To-Day, 1931, (p. 6).

Advertisement - Includes Melbourne bookseller H. A. Evans and Son's advertisement for various books and magazines, here recommended as Christmas gifts. Those listed include : Art in Australia ; The Wanderer of Liverpool, by John Masefield ; Miss Emily in Black Lace, by Nina Murdoch ; A Year on the Great Barrier Reef, by C. M. Yonge ; Tinker Tailor, by 'Greenhorn' ; Everybody's Boswell, by Ernest H. Shepard ; The Great Hill Climb, by Alex P. Campbell ; Littlest Ones Peter Pan and Wendy, by J. M. Barrie ; The Bible As Literature, by Kathleen E. Innes ; Seventh Heaven, by Nina Murdoch ; The Story of San Michele, by Axel Munthe ; Angel Pavement, and Good Companions, by J. B. Priestley ; The Lives of a Bengal Lancer, by Francis Yeats-Brown ; and In Search of Scotland, by H. V. Morton, (p. 6).

Advertisement - Includes Melbourne bookseller Will Andrade's advertisement for various plays and marriage guides. These include : Great Modern British Plays, selected by J. W. Marriott ; The Plays of John Galsworthy ; Famous Plays of To-Day ; Manhood and Marriage, by B. A. MacFadden ; Wise Parenthood and Married Love, by Marie Stopes ; and Book of Nature and Marriage Guide, by (Dr.) Thomas Faulkner, (p. 6).

Advertisement - Includes an advertisement for The Argus Guide to Melbourne, (p. 6).

Advertisement - Includes Melbourne bookseller A. J. Hanley's advertisement for a range of new and second-hand college, high school and university text-books, (p. 6).

Advertisement - Includes Melbourne medical bookseller Ramsay's advertisement for the textbooks : The Health Inspector's Manual, and The Australian Handbook of Meat Inspection, both by John Johnston, and A Primer of Dietetics, by W. A. Osborne, (p. 6).

Review - Includes Ernest Scott's column length review of Bligh of the Bounty, by Geoffrey Rawson, (p. 7).

Review/Column - Includes the Saturday books column 'New Books', which lists the latest publications received, and includes a number of paragraph length book-reviews.

The works reviewed include : Borrowing and Business in Australia, by G. L. Wood ; Dawn in India, by (Sir) Francis Younghusband ; India and the Simon Report, by C. F. Andrews ; H. G. Wells : A Sketch for a Portrait, by Geoffrey West ; Comments and Criticisms, by (Sir) John Simon ; The Adorable Duchess, by Armand Praviel ; Poems for Children, by Walter de la Mare ; Tolstoy : The Inconstant Genius, by Alexander I. Nazaroff ; and Traveller's Luck, by E. V. Lucas. There are also a number of shorter thumbnail reviews of various children's books. These include : Vaino, by Julia Davis Adams ; How it Happened, by Rhoda Power ; The Children's Book of Pantomimes ; Two Legs and Four, by Anthony Armstrong ; Books and Their Story, by R. N. D. Wilson ; The Story of Mr. Punch, by Octave Feuillet (trans. Gable), and The Amazing Adventures of Little Brown Bear, by Dorothy Burroughes, (p. 8).

The list of new publications includes : The Clydesdale Horse ; Christianity and Science in the Twentieth Century, by (Rev.) A. E. Baker ; The Art and Practice of Historical Fiction, by Alfred Tresidder Sheppard ; Sprays from the Bush, Sea, and Mountain, by Arnold Safroni-Middleton ; New Light on the Mysterious Tragedy of the Worcester 1704-1705, by (Lt. Col.) R. C. Temple ; The Moderns, by 'C. J. Staughton' ; Let's See the Lowlands, by A. A. Thomson ; Mary Baker Eddy, by Lyman P. Powell ; Your Marriage, by D. P. Macdonald ; History (the quarterly journal of The Historical Association) ; and United Empire magazine, (p. 8).

Column - Includes the article 'London Book Gossip', which looks at various British best-sellers and forthcoming titles, and also briefly considers recent developments in the British book publishing world. The books mentioned include : Success, by Lion Feuchtwanger ; Angel Pavement, by J. B. Priestley ; The Water Gypsies, by A. P. Herbert ; Imperial Palace, by Arnold Bennett ; Magnolia Street, by Louis Golding ; Martin Make-Believe, by Gilbert Frankau ; Look Homeward, Angel, by Thomas Wolfe ; Castle Gay, by John Buchan ; Tommy Picton and Certain Women, by E. H. L. Watson ; The Story of San Michele, by Axel Munthe ; England Under Queen Anne : Blenheim, by G. M. Trevelyan ; The Victorian Tragedy, by Wingfield Stratford ; The Life of Sir Edward Marshal Hall, by Edward Marjoribanks ; The Lives of a Bengal Lancer, by Francis Yeats-Brown ; The Hamwood Papers of the Ladies of Llangollen and Caroline Hamilton, by E. M. H. Bell ; Memoirs, by Prince von Bulow (then being translated for English publication) ; The Mysterious Universe, by (Sir) James Jeans ; and Science and the Unseen World, by (Sir) Arthur Eddington, (p. 9).

Advertisement - Includes Melbourne retailer Foy and Gibson's advertisement for a range of Christmas gifts, including various children's annuals. Those listed include : Chums Annual ; Tiny Tots ; Puck Annual ; Bubbles Annual ; The Bruin Boys' Annual ; The Schoolgirls' Own Annual ; Tiger Tim's Annual ; The Australian Boy's Annual ; The Australian Girl's Annual ; Mrs Hippo's Annual ; The School Friend Annual ; The Champion Annual ; The Rainbow Annual ; and The Chicks' Own Annual, (p. 11).

Column - Includes the article 'Books for Christmas', which reports on some of the books currently on display in Melbourne book-shops, and also makes a number of recommendations. The books mentioned include : The Brain Worker's Handbook, by Curt Kauffman (trans. Burgess and Herbert) ; Over the Hills, by Jeffery Farnol ; On Forsyte 'Change, and A Modern Comedy, by John Galsworthy ; Claudia, by Arnold Zweig (trans. Sutton) ; The Woman of Andros, by Thornton Wilder ; Shepherd of Israel, by Leonora Eyles ; O Splendid Sorcery, by James Francis Dwyer ; Mysterious Waye, by P. C. Wren ; Three Personal Records of the War, by R. H. Mottram, John Easton, and Eric Partridge ; Guests of the Unspeakable, by (Lt. Col.) T. W. White ; Solo to Sydney, by F. C. Chichester ; Letters from a Flying Officer, by Rothesay Stuart Wortley ; Disraeli, by Andre Maurois ; The Wild Swan : Poems, and Marri'd, and Other Verses, by Mary Gilmore ; Selected Poems, by Bernard O'Dowd ; Alice in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll ; Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, by J. M. Barrie ; The White Man's Garden, by Mervyn Skipper ; and various unspecified Arthur Mee titles, (p. 19).

Review - Includes a two column review of My Friend Mr. Edison, by Henry Ford, (Supp. p. 3).