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Issue Details: First known date: 1868... vol. 4 no. 115 (New Series) 13 June 1868 of The Australasian est. 1864 The Australasian
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Notes

  • This issue of the Australasian also includes:

    • advertisements for a range of classical and popular sheet music, and publications on geology, democratic government, medicine and cattle breeding as well as Rays fro' the Loominary, penny readings in the Lancashire dialect, (p. 738)
    • a translation from the German of a section of theologian Friedrich Wilhelm Krummacher's Elijah the Tishbite (p. 740)
    • miscellaneous pars (p. 743)
    • a review of 'Democratic Government in Victoria', an article that appeared in the Westminster Review, 33.2 (April 1868): 480-523 (p. 744)

Contents

* Contents derived from the 1868 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Dickens's Works at English Price, single work advertisement

An advertisement for 'Dickens's works at English price' available from George Robertson, Melbourne. Works advertised are: The Pickwick Papers, Martin Chuzzlewit, Dombey and Son, Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield, The Old Curiosity Shop, Oliver Twist, Christmas Books and Barnaby Rudge.

(p. 738)
The Young Ladies' Journal, single work advertisement

An advertisement for the London monthly The Young Ladies' Journal. The advertisement states that the magazine 'contains suitable reading for families, ... interesting to everybody at home and abroad'.

(p. 738)
The Colonial Monthly, June 1868, single work advertisement

An advertisement for the June 1868 issue of the Colonial Monthly.

(p. 738)
Australasian : The First Three Volumes, single work advertisement

An advertisement for the first three volumes of the Australasian, available from Samuel Mullen, bookseller, Melbourne and Ballarat, Victoria.

(p. 738)
Books for Readings, single work advertisement

An advertisement for Caprenter's Penny Readings, Comic Reciter and Sunday Readings, all available from Charlwood, Bourke-street.

(p. 738)
Spurgeon's Sermons, single work advertisement

An advertisement for Charles Haddon Spurgeon's sermons 'in large quantities', available from Buzzard, Melbourne.

(p. 740)
The Warrigali"Through forest boles the storm-wind rolls,", Henry Kendall , single work poetry (p. 742)
1865-1866i"I stood on a tower in the wet", Alfred Tennyson , single work poetry (p. 743)
1867-1868i"I sat in a 'bus in the wet,", single work poetry humour

A parody of Alfred Tennyson's poem '1865-1866'.

The poem includes references to the English periodicals Good Words and Once a Week.

(p. 743)
The Theatres, &c., Jaques (fl. 1866-1868) , single work review
— Review of Richelieu; or, The Conspiracy Edward Bulwer Lytton , 1839 single work drama ;

A review of the performance of Edward Bulwer Lytton's Richelieu at the Duke of Edinburgh Theatre, Melbourne, June 1868.

Jaques also notes briefly productions at the Theatre Royal.

(p. 754)
Our London Letter, single work correspondence

An overview of news from England including the latest from London's theatres and opera houses, and the titles of book publications for the month of April 1868.

(p. 757-758)

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