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- Prince of Wales Opera House : Cramond Brig, or, The Gude Man of Ballengeish, &c., single work advertisement (p. 1)
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Working Men's Book Society,
single work
advertisement
(p. 1)
'A large assortment of publications of a secular and religious character has just been received from England and is now on sale at the Depot, 31 Park street, and on Saturday evening at the [Working Men's Book] Society’s stand in the Haymarket.'
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Moore's Australian Almanac,
single work
advertisement
(p. 1)
An advertisement for the 1868 edition of Moore's Australian Almanac and Handbook.
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Untitled,
single work
column
(p. 2)
This editorial, on the progress and availability of newspapers in colonial New South Wales (in particular The Empire and The Evening News), ends with a quotation from William Cullen Bryant's 'Thanatopsis'.
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The Colonial Monthly Magazine,
single work
review
— Review of Colonial Monthly : An Australian Magazine no. January 1868 periodical issue ;(p. 2)Brief review.
The writer includes the following comment: 'Charles Harpur, a name familiar to all readers of poetry in New South Wales, we are glad to see once more in print.'
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Almanacs,
single work
column
(p. 2)
A brief notice on two newly published 1868 almanacs: Sands Commercial Sheet Almanac and Moore's Australian Almanac and Hand Book.
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The Prince in Sydney,
single work
prose
satire
(p. 3)
An imagined conversation between a Sydney resident and Prince Albert, Duke of Edinburgh (who visited the colonies during 1867-1868), about the governance, administration and public architecture of New South Wales.
- P. M'Carrolli"The new year before us has merry come in", single work poetry (p. 4)
