Bohemia : the all-Australian literary magazine

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Nf 059.45 BOH
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Melbourne : Bohemia, 1939-1967
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Fourteenth Issue (May 1940)
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Bohemia  

Reply To E. J. Brady s™ og  

Registered at the G.P.0., Melbourne, tbr  

transmission through the Post as Periodical.  

3°;  

M&teship  

Art  

Letters  

THE ALL-AUSTRALIAN LITERARY MAGAZINE  

FOURTEENTH ISSUE.  

MELBOURNE.  

MAY, 1940.  

Bohemia  

IS PUBLISHED MONTHLY.  

Subscription 3Z- per annum,  

plus 1Z- postage.  

NEWSAGENTS and CLUBS please note:  

DISTRIBUTING AGENTS: Messrs. George  

Batchelor Pty. Ltd., McKillop St., Mel-  

bourne, to whom all applications for par-  

cels must be addressed.  

LITERARY CONTRIBUTORS: Please ad-  

dress your contributions to The Editor,  

“Bohemia,” J. Roy Stevens, 1-7 Knox  

Place, Melbourne. Literary and Art Fel-  

lowships’ reports must be in at least  

days before date of publication, which  

will be on the first of each month.  

Other communications should be ad-  

dressed to—  

THE MANAGER, Osborne House, 399  

Little Collins Street, Melbourne.  

The Bread and Cheese Club does not  

identify itself with the views of any writer  

expressed in these pages. As Literary Club,  

it has no political opinions nor ecclesiastical  

leanings.  

IN THIS ISSUE  

JOHN BENNETT ON AUSTRALIAN  

CULTURE  

MR. GROUCH; NELLIE A. EVANS—  

Verse  

J. A. V. STEVENS—Burlesque ....  

D. HILDA CUE Literary Sketch;  

MARTIN HALEY—Verse  

EDITORIAL; E. WINIFRED KNIGHT—  

Verse  

CON LINDSAY Bread and Cheese  

Club Personalities  

COLE TURNLEY—Short Story; LYLE  

GEDDES—Verse  

W. H. MALLOCH ON VERBAL SOLE-  

CISMS; P. T. FINDLAY—Verse ..  

P. B. CARNE ON MODERN VERSE;  

MYALL O’MALLEE—Verse 10  

PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS; LETTERS 11  

C. J. DENNIS POETRY COMPETI-  

TION; MARY GILMORE—Verse .. 12  

RICHARD ROSS ON AUTHORS’ MIS-  

TAKES; AILSA DAWES—Verse .... 13  

JOCK SORENSEN Verse; LITTLE  

THEATRE REVIEW ..  

REPORTS OF SOCIETIES; K. DAL-  

ZIEL—Verse 15  

Paul Maguire- An Appreciation  

By FRANCES FLYNN.  

THE other day came upon book  

called “Australian Journey” by  

Paul Maguire. The copy had was  

presented by Mr. Hume Cook to the  

Australian Literature Society, so am  

indebted to him for the joys of read-  

ing it and writing an appreciation of  

it.  

Apart from this book, and the few  

press comments on his visit to Aus-  

tralia, know nothing of Paul Maguire,  

whose birthplace was Peterborough,  

not far from Pt. Pirie.  

His mother, as young woman, was  

teacher at Wallaroo on Spencer Gulf,  

and his father, at 20, in charge of  

group of railway linesmen. He eventu-  

ally became director of S.A. railways.  

His parents were pioneers in part  

of South Australia which is now  

link between East and West, North  

and South of our continent.  

At the age of seven Paul Maguire  

came to live in Adelaide and was the  

only child in his school who had seen  

snow.  

Paul Maguire views our problems  

through Australian eyes, with the wid-  

er vision of the travelled, cultured man  

who knows America and Europe, and  

so has more accurate perspective  

than many of us who are less favour-  

ed.  

His book has the purpose of arous-  

ing Australians to sense of responsi-  

bilities chiefly .that we cannot con-  

tinue to hold this land of 3,000,000  

square miles, equal in area to the  

United States, with dwindling popu-  

lation of less than millions  

(6,600,000 according to Sir Jas. Bar-  

rett, whose graphs at an A.L.S. meet-  

ing recently were most enlightening),  

while near neighbours, Java to the  

N. W. has an increasing crowded popu-  

lation of 42,000,000 and Japan to the  

North 84,000,000.  

He thinks it wise to let the Japan-  

ese luggers, pearlers etc., visit our  

North if they truly report what they  

observe that much of Australia  

is not the fertile land generally sup-  

posed, and that wind erosion of soil  

is creating more desert lands. Mostly  

he seems to be writing for non-Aus-  

tralian readers.  

His book begins by tracing the vari-  

ous sea-routes to Australia and com-  

pares the different features and char-  

acteristics of Australian capital cities  

with each other. They are not uni-  

formly alike. Their rivalries, particu-  

larly Melbourne and Sydney, spring  

from notable differences in tempera-  

ment. Sydney belongs to the sun, but  

Melbourne possesses its own soul in  

sturdy earnestness.  

When Melbourne’s first settler land-  

ed on the muddy banks of the Yarra,  

he looked on the scene and said: “This  

will be the place for village.” He  

was already citizen of Melbourne,  

and with no nonsense about him. Mel-  

bourne still has that tempered, sober  

mind, and it rolls Batman’s phrase  

on its tongue with enduring relish.  

But when the first colonists landed  

in Sydney, they all, convicts and sol-  

diers, got uproariously drunk. Ido  

not mean to suggest that Sydney con-  

tinues to get drunk ...”  

Here are some brief extracts from  

the book:  

“A culture is not soulless. It must  

be informed by spiritual values and  

(Continued on Page 10).  

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