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  2. DENIZENS OF THE BUSH.

    "BIRD LOVER" (Armadale) is not as friendly towards the kookaburra as was a Mundijong correspondent, who recently suggested that the birds would be ...

    Article : 688 words
  3. ONE THING AND ANOTHER

    "H.C."—Considerable amusement was caused in Barrack-street on Saturday afternoon, when a wedding party stopped at a photographer's studio for a few ...

    Article : 1,441 words
  4. SCULPTURE AND SUNBATHING.

    MR. Bernard Shaw has written a characteristic preface to the catalogue of Professor Sigismond de Strobl's exhibition of his sculptures, which opened ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 619 words
  5. THE NOVEL.

    AUSTRALIAN women novelists are well to the fore nowadays, in broadcasting as in the literary world. Miss Miles Franklin, author of "My Brilliant ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 557 words
  6. FEUDAL ABYSSINIA.

    WHAT one sees in Abyssinia today is practically what took place in England four or five centuries ago. The only real difference is that the Abyssinians ...

    Article : 1,103 words
  7. LIFE and LETTERS

    PUBLISHED by Messrs. Gollancz, Stefan Lorant's book, "I Was Hitler's Prisoner," is probably the best of all the "human documents" that have come out ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,389 words
  8. NEW PUBLICATIONS.

    PROFESSOR TUCKER is one of the most distinguished Helenists of the present day, and his translations of selected passages from the works of the great ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 449 words
  9. Brief Reviews.

    MIKHAIL Sholokhov's new book is a sequel to his previous story of Cossack life, "And Quiet Flows the Don," with a post-revolutionary setting. The ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 212 words
  10. "The Unknown Quantity," by Hermann Brock. Collins, London. 7/6. From the publishers.

    FINELY translated from the German by Edwin and Willa Muir, Hermann Brock's book has to do with the hitherto unknown quantity of love as it reveals ...

    Article : 149 words
  11. "The Vortex," by Jose Eustasio Rivera. Putnam's, London. 7/6. From the publishers.

    SINCE his death in 1928, Rivera's great American novel has gone into many editions, and the English translation by E. K. James will serve to ...

    Article : 168 words
  12. A Woman Afloat.

    MISS Bourne, the writer of this cheerful book of manifold and varied experiences, is the daughter of Sir Roland Bourne. She spent her early life in the ...

    Article : 558 words
  13. THE LIBRARY CORNER.

    THE reason why Chrysippus argues the soul to be around the heart, as do all the rest of his school, is too good to be forgotten: It is, ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 188 words
  14. "Hotel Sinister," by David Whitelaw. Geoffrey Bles, London. 7/6. From the Publisher.

    CONCEIVED somewhat in the manner of Vichi Baum's "Grand Hotel," Mr. Whitelaw's new "thriller" deals with a series of crimes—murder, jewel ...

    Article : 162 words
  15. Advertising

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    Advertising : 579 words
  16. "Lady Georgy's House," by Cecily Hallack. Methuen and Co., Ltd., London. 7/6. From the publishers.

    MISS Hallack's novel is a pleasantly written story of life in a Cornish manor house presided over by a delightful chatelaine in the person of Lads ...

    Article : 232 words
  17. PLAYS AND PLAYERS.

    Sir,—In Life and Letters on October 19 "Adsum" gave some interesting reminiscences of theatrical artists who visited Perth during earlier years. But is it ...

    Article : 307 words
  18. THE LETTERBOX

    G.M. (Trade With Poland): Too dry. "Kookaburra" (The Councillors' Medal): A Little bit weak. M.C. (A Glimpse of the Italian Community). ...

    Article : 539 words
  19. "Ask the Brave Soldier," by Mary Nicholson. Longmans, Green and Co., London. 7/6. From the publishers.

    AS a chronicle of regimental life in an English garrison town, Miss Nicholson's novel is a remarkably able piece of work. The petty intrigues and jealousies ...

    Article : 164 words
  20. DICKENS RELICS.

    MANY relics of Charles Dickens were included in a recent sale in London by Sotheby's. They were formerly the property of Anne Browne, afterwards ...

    Article : 356 words
  21. "The Body in Bedford Square," by David Frome. Longman's, Green and Co., London. 7/6. From the publishers.

    THE colloquialism that it is not so much what he says as the way he says it, is in a sense applicable to Mr. Frome's new mystery story. His characters—even ...

    Article : 184 words
  22. CHRISTMAS NUMBERS.

    Every Christmas, or, more precisely, some weeks before that festival, Australians all over the Commonwealth are made aware with extra force of the ...

    Article : 209 words
  23. "The Ghost of Gaston Revere," by Mark Hansom. Wright and Brown, London. 3/6. From the publishers.

    CONCEIVED somewhat in the spirit of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein," Mr. Hansom's weird story concerns the ingenious Dr. Gale's treatment of a ...

    Article : 105 words
  24. "Rachel Rosing," by Howard Spring. Collins, London. 7/6. From the publishers.

    IN novel writing, sequels are rarely successful; and Mr. Spring's new story can hardly be said to compare very favourably with his first essay in fiction, of ...

    Article : 187 words
  25. "Motor Cruising," by K. M. Miller and John Irving. Seeley, Service and Co., Ltd. 21/. From the publishers.

    THIS, the nineteenth volume in the Lonsdale Library, a collection of handbooks on sports and pastimes that is regarded as the authorititative ...

    Article : 124 words
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    A New translation of Plato's "Symposium," by Michael Joyce, is announced by Dent for this month, when they will also have ready Lewis ...

    Article : 37 words
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