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Issue Details:
First known date:
1896...
vol.
1
no.
26
17 October
1896
of
The Free-Lance
est. 1896
The Free-Lance
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This issue promotes the availability of a 'special poster ... designed and drawn by Australian artists, printed in three colours by Australian printers for the use of Australian agents'. At the foot of the advertisement, a further paragraph states that the Free-Lance has the 'largest circulation of any satirical illustrated weekly in Australasia, bar the Bulletin'.
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Contents
* Contents derived from the 1896 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
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The Play,
single work
column
(p. 4-5)A column canvassing current stage productions in Sydney and Melbourne. Included in the overview are some comments on Alfred Dampier's Robbery under Arms and George Darrell's Convict Once.
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Prose about Pro's,
single work
column
(p. 5)A round-up of personal news about people involved in the world of theatre. This column includes reference to the English critic William Archer who, in a review of Robbery under Arms, revealed that he had been a station hand on an Australian sheep run in his youth.
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The Pathway of the Suni"Do you hear the West a-calling, brother mine?",
single work
poetry
(p. 6)
Note:
- Written as Steele Grey.
- 'From the Bulletin.'
- Colonial Slanguagei"'Tis the everyday Australian", single work poetry (p. 6)
- The Light of Other Days, single work short story (p. 6)
- Flights of the 'Dove'i"A certain man, McLellan, yclept the 'Dove of Ararat'-", single work poetry (p. 9)
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Ye Poete Toe Hys Pypei"You sweet old clay, full many",
single work
poetry
(p. 10)
Note: Illustrated by N. L. [Norman Lindsay].
- In the Chinese Quarter, single work prose (p. 11)
- Satan and a Man, single work short story (p. 13)
- 'Next Please!', single work short story (p. 15)
- Jesusi"I know not my song", single work poetry (p. 15)
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