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This issue of the Australasian also includes:
- the complete text of a sermon preached by Charles Haddon Spurgeon at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington, London. The reproduced sermon serves as an advertisement for a volume of Spurgeon's sermons available at Buzzard's, Collins St, Melbourne (pp. 324, 347)
- miscellaneous pars, including notes on 'Negro Journalism in America' and 'Editorial Troubles' (p. 327)
- a recommendation for the purchase of the print version of the Old Colonists' Address, presented to to H. R. H. Prince Alfred, the Duke of Edinburgh in January 1868, and published by E. Whitebread & Co. (p. 338)
- a detailed report on the assassination attempt in Sydney on H. R. H. Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh (p. 339)
- advertisements for Hanover Square: A Magazine of New and Copyright Pianoforte and Vocal Music; a British art journal, Chromolithograph; the official post office Directory of Victoria; a range of dictionaries and horticultural guides; a set of 43 volumes of the Illustrated News; a reprinting of a pamphlet by Manasseh ben Israel titled To His Highnesse the Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland : The Humble Addresses of Menasseh Ben Israel, a Divine, and Doctor of Physic, in Behalfe of the Jewish Nation; various dictionaries and manuals and The Australian Cookery Book (p. 347)
Contents
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An Old Homestead,
single work
prose
(p. 327)
Note: Author not acknowledged in this source.
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Poor Carlotta!i"Are there tears enough in the main?",
single work
poetry
(p. 327)
On the heartbreak experienced by Carlotta (aka Charlotte, Carlota), wife of Maximilian I of Mexico, when she learned of her husband's execution.
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Memoirs of Sir Philip Francis,
single work
review
— Review of Memoirs of Sir Philip Francis, with Correspondence and Journals 1867 single work autobiography ; (p. 328) - A Shooting Trip to Lake Korangamite, single work prose (p. 332)
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The Peripatetic Philosopher : No. 15,
single work
prose
(p. 337)
Q. offers his views on a court case involving Isaac Coleman, proprietor of Melbourne's Tattersall's Hotel. He also takes a satirical swipe at employees of government ministers, ponders the divide between Roman Catholics and Protestants, and reacts to the news of the attempted assassination in Sydney of H. R. H. Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh.
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The Theatres, &c.,
single work
review
— Review of Acis and Galatea ; Or, The Nimble Nymph and the Terrible Troglodyte 1863 single work musical theatre ; Who Killed Cock Robin? 1865 single work drama ; The Hidden Hand 1864 single work drama ;(p. 338)A review of the March 1868 productions of Tom Taylor's The Hidden Hand at the Theatre Royal and Charles Mathews' Who Killed Cock Robin? at the Princess's Theatre. Francis Cowley Burnand's Acis and Galatea is also reviewed; it was produced simultaneously at the Theatre Royal and at the Princess's Theatre.
- A Trip to Moama, single work prose travel (p. 344)
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A New Monthly Magazine, Edited by Anthony Trollope,
single work
advertisement
(p. 347)
An advertisement for St Paul's Magazine, 'a new monthly magazine of fiction, art and literature, edited by Anthony Trollope and illustrated by J. E. Millais.
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The London Journal,
single work
advertisement
(p. 347)
An advertisement for the London Journal.
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Announcement: Read the Hamlet Controvery,
single work
advertisement
(p. 347)
An advertisement for the published collection of newspaper correspondence, Was Hamlet Mad?: Being a Series of Critiques on the Acting of the Late Walter Montgomery, available from the publisher and bookseller H. T. Dwight.
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Christian Pioneer,
single work
advertisement
(p. 347)
An advertisement for the Baptist periodical, the Christian Pioneer, printed every Thursday by Stillwell and Knight.
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Dwight, Bookseller,
single work
advertisement
(p. 347)
H. T. Dwight, Bookseller, 'near Parliament, solicits inspection of his stock'.
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Illustrated London News,
single work
advertisement
(p. 347)
An advertisement for the 'Illustrated London News, London Punch, and other English periodicals', available from Samuel Mullen, Bookseller, 55 Collins-street east.
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Overlanding in Australia : Written by a Bushman,
single work
advertisement
(p. 347)
An advertisement for C. Wade Browne's Overlanding in Australia, available from George Robertson, Elizabeth-street, Melbourne.
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The Australian Second Book by M. A. Pitt,
single work
advertisement
(p. 347)
An advertisement for M. A. Pitt's children's reader, The Australian Second Book, published by George Robertson.
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Stillwell and Knight, Printers,
single work
advertisement
(p. 349)
An advertisement for the Melbourne printing firm, Stillwell and Knight.
