Xavier Herbert Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
	General Note on the Text
1	Short Fiction
	Editors' Note	2
	Miss Tanaka	5
	Kaijek the Songman	16
	My Thousandth Death	23
2	Capricornia
	Editors' Note	36
	Chapter 1, The Coming of the Dingoes	39
	from Chapter 10, In the Midst of Life We are in Death	45
	Chapter 14, Peregrinations of a Busybody	50
	from Chapter 15, Machinations of a Jinx	67
	Chapter 22, Song of the Golden Beetle	71
3	Ideas for Stories
	Editors' Note	88
	Ideas for Stories	89
4	The Little Widow
	Editors' Note	94
	Chapter 3	95
5	Seven Emus
	Editors' Note	102
	from Chapter 9	105
6	Soldiers' Women
	Editors' Note	112
	Chapter I, part iii	115
	Chapter V, part ii	121
	from Chapter XXII, part iv	125
7	Disturbing Element
	Editors' Note	136
	from Chapter 2	137
	from Chapter 4	139
8	Poor Fellow My Country
	Editors' Note	146
	from Chapter 1	149
	from Chapter 8	166
	from Chapter 19	168
	from Chapter 25	176
9	Me and My Shadow
	Editors' Note	194
	from Chapter III	195
10	Articles, Speeches, Interviews
	Editors' Notes	202
	Autobiographical Letter, 1928	205
	Lynch 'Em, 1938	207
	Interview by W.J. Miles, 1938	210
	Autobiographette, 1938	212
	A Town Like Elliott, 1962	215
	Editors' Note	224
	Australia Has the Black Pox, 1978	225
	Interview by Peter Corris, 1979	229
11	Letters and Literary Logs
	Editors' Note	240
	To: P.R. Stephensen April 1934	243
	Arthur Dibley c. Easter 1935	247
	Arthur Dibley c. late April-early May 1936	250
	Arthur Dibley 30 June 1936	253
	Jean Devanny 11 February 1939	255
	Walter Cousins 6 February 1940	256
	Ian Mudie 23 November 1940	258
	Ian Mudie 4 February 1941	260
	Clem Christesen 19 October 1941	260
	from Literary Logs, 1950-1955	261
	To: Secretary, Commonwealth Literary Fund September 1956	263
	Sadie 27 June 1966	264
	Sadie 6 September 1968	266
	Sadie 11 October 1968	268
	from Literary Log 22 October 1971	270
	from Literary Log 25 October 1971	271
	To: Laurie Hergenhan 11 December 1971	272
	Beatrice Davis 12 April 1972	273
	Rt Hon. Gough Whitlam 27 January 1973	274
	Select Bibliography	278