Last week I wrote about Canadian librarian, George Locke, commissioning Australian critic and journalist AG Stephens to compile the "best 100 imaginative Australian and New Zealand books" to be sent for exhibition in Toronto's public library". I ended on the commission having been completed, but I did not include his list because, not only had … Continue reading Monday musings on Australian literature: on 1923: 4, Austra-Zealand’s best books and Canada (2)

For my third post in my Monday Musings 1923 series, I'm moving away from publisher initiatives, like the NSW Bookstall Co and the Platypus Series, to something a bit different. It's an intriguing story about what one paper called "inter-Imperial amity". It goes like this ... Mr. George H. Locke (1870-1937) - as the newspapers … Continue reading Monday musings on Australian literature: on 1923: 3, Austra-Zealand’s best books and Canada (1)