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This issue of the Empire includes a prose article, reproduced from the Imperial Review, on social and economic change.
Contents
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Royal Victoria Theatre : Colonial Experience, &c.,
single work
advertisement
(p. 1)
An advertisement for the Royal Victoria Theatre production of Walter Cooper's Colonial Experience and of Pilgrim of Love on 4, 6, 7 and 8 July 1868.
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To Printers and Newspaper Proprietors,
single work
advertisement
(p. 1)
An advertisement, probably placed by Samuel Bennett (sole proprietor, printer and publisher of the Empire), for the sale of a single cylinder printing machine. The sale is being offered 'to make room for a new machine daily expected from England'.
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Victoria Theatre,
single work
review
— Review of Colonial Experience 1868 single work drama ;(p. 2)A brief review of the 6 July 1868 Royal Victoria Theatre production of Thomas Cooper's Colonial Experience. The reviewer says that, in spite of 'some extraneous slang, the piece is superior to the average productions of London playwrights'.
- 'Up with the Rag!', single work criticism (p. 3)
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To Denis O'Shaughnassey, Drumcondra, Dublin. Per Favor of The Empire,
single work
correspondence
humour
(p. 3)
An epistle on the possibility of raising a contingent of Irish 'Volunteers' in Australia. The letter includes the text of some marching songs, including 'Arrah, Paddy you gander, you're like a Highlander'.
- Phillip M'Carroll. Pitt-Streeti"In Liverpool and Sussex streets, M'Carroll now is there,", single work poetry (p. 4)
