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Column - Includes the Saturday literary feature 'Writers and Readers', a collection of literary articles, book reviews and various literary items, (p. 2).
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Article/Review - Includes the article 'Christina Rossetti Centenary', which reflects on the British writer's life and works, a century after her birth. The article also briefly looks at two works on Rossetti : Woman-Writers of the Nineteenth Century, by Marjory Bald ; and the recently published biography, The Life of Christina Rossetti, by Mary F. Sandars, (p. 2).
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Review - Includes the article 'A Mysterious Elizabethan', a column length review of Allardyce Nicoll's recently published book, The Works of Cyril Tourneur, (p. 2).
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Article - Includes the article 'Fiction, Humanity and Geography', which considers the way in which 'actual geography and fictional humanity are blended in public imagination by works of outstanding authorship'. Notably, the writer mentions one recent instance, in which a railway company in northern England produced an advertising poster that included a map and itinerary of the journeys made by characters in J. B. Priestley's novel Good Companions, (p. 2).
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Article - Includes the item 'Eden Phillpotts's Fairy Story', a brief review of Eden Phillpotts' recently published book, Alcyone, (p. 2).
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Article - Includes the item 'Juvenile Authors', which briefly mentions two recent works by young writers : Tally Ho, by Moyra Charlton, and Caesar : The Life Story of a Panda Leopard, by Patrick Russ, (p. 2).
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Review - Includes the column 'Forthcoming Books', a series of brief reviews of various recent publications. These include : Colossal Blunders of the War, by W. S. Woods ; Information on the Reparation Settlement, by J. W. W. Bennett and Hugh Latimer ; The Fall of Christianity, by G. J. Heering, and the biography, Dr Barnardo :
Physician, Pioneer and Prophet, by J. Wesley Bready, (p. 2).
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Review - Includes the article 'History of Entertaining Vein', which reviews a number of recent publications that treat history and historical subjects in an entertaining or amusing manner. The works mentioned are : 1066 and All That, by W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman ; Biography for Beginners, by E. C. Bentley and G. K. Chesterton ; Potted Biographies, by S. Elliott Napier ; and Meet These People, by Reginald Arkell, (p. 2).
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Review - Includes the article 'The Empire and the Lawyers', which reviews a number of Arthur Berriedale Keith's recent works on government and law within British Empire. These include Responsible Government in the Dominions ; The Sovereignty of the British Dominions ; and Constitutional History of the First British Empire, (p. 2).
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Review - Includes the article 'Two Australian Books', a review of the recently published works, Old Eko's Note-Book, by Nathan Spielvogel, and The Journal of a Jackaroo, by Frank Hives, with Gascoigne Lumley, (p. 2).
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Review - Includes the book-review column 'New Books', a series of brief paragraph length reviews of recent publications. The works reviewed include : A Winter Miscellany, by Humbert Wolfe ; Things That Annoy Me, by E. V. Knox ; It's a Fine World, by Robert Lynd ; Ballads for Broadbrows, and More Misleading Cases, by A. P. Herbert ; The Pleasures of Poetry, by Edith Sitwell ; Selected Poems, by Maurice Baring ; Ronald Firbank. A Memoir, by Kyrle Fletcher ; The Shropshire of Mary Webb, by W. Reid Chappell ; By Range and River, by Victor Kennedy ; Modern French Masters, by Edwin Fagg ; The Moderns, by 'C. J. Staughton' ; and Round Games With Cards, by Basil Dalton, (p. 2).
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Review - Includes the column 'Story of a Ship', a half column review of John Masefield's recently published work, The Wanderer of Liverpool, (p. 2).
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Advertisement - Includes medical bookseller Ramsay's advertisements for the textbooks : A Primer of Dietetics, by W. A. Osborne ; The Health Inspector's Manual, and The Australian Handbook of Meat Inspection, both by John Johnston, (p. 2).
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Review - Includes the article 'The Oxford Press', a series of brief reviews of recent publications on music published by the Oxford University Press. The works mentioned include : The Gentle Art of Singing (abridged edition), by Henry J. Wood ; Music to Shakespeare's Plays, edited by J. S. Wilson etc. ; Violin Technique, by Sydney Robjohns ; The A. B. C. of Music (2 vols.), by T. Campbell Young ; and The Kettle Drums, by Percival R. Kirby, (p. 3).
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Review : Includes the article 'Unveiling the Past : The Spade in Scientific Hands', which includes reviews several recently published works on archaeology. These include : Digging Up the Past, by Leonard Woolley ; A Season's Work at Ur, by H. R. Hall ; and Craftsmen's Measures in Prehistoric Times, by Ludovic MacLellan Mann, (p. 3).
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Review - Includes the article 'British Bird Life', a review of British ornithologist Oliver Pike's recently published book, Rambles in Britain's Birdland, (p. 3).
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Review - Includes the article 'Our Own Birds of Australia', a brief review of Austraian ornithologist Edward A. Vidler's recently published book, of that title, (p. 3).
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Review - Includes the article 'India and the Simon Report', a review of C. F. Andrews' recently published book of that title, (p. 4).
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Review - Includes the article, 'The Mysterious Universe', a review of the recently published book of that title, by British physicist and astronomer, Sir James Jeans. The review also briefly mentions Jeans' earlier work, The Universe Around Us, (p. 4).
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Review - Includes the article 'Recent Religious Literature', a review of various recently published works involving church history, Christian belief, church and society, etc. These include : The Thundering Abbot, by Henri Bremond (trans. Sheed) ; Church, State and Society, edited by Prof. Ernest Barker ; Of Immortality and Other Thoughts, by Lord Wrenbury ; Spiritual Stepping Stones, by Rev. Alfred Thomas ; More Thoughts for the Plain Man, by Rev. L. B. Ashby ; A Converted Pharisee's Open Letter, by Rev. Thomas Walker ; Sunday by Sunday, edited by J. H. Burn ; The Challenge to the Church, by Rev. Bernard Herklots ; The Modern Dilemma, by Hugh Fausset ; and Great Lives Divinely Planned, by Jane T. Stoddart, (p. 4).
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Review - Includes the article 'Dictatorship on Its Trial', a review of the recently published book of that title, edited by Otto Forst de Battaglia, (p. 4).
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Review - Includes the item 'Commonwealth Year Book', a brief review of the 1930 issue of the Official Year Book of the Commonwealth of Australia, which had just been published. Notably, the item also briefly mentions Professor A. R. Radcliffe Brown's article on the Aboriginal population of Australia prior to the arrival of Europeans, which appeared in the volume, (p. 8).
