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Issue Details: First known date: 1868... 1868 Beautiful for Ever
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'The Peripatetic Philosopher' muses on an advertisement placed in newspapers in Victoria by a Miss Talbot. The lady offers, for 'thirty twopenny stamps', to provide full directions for 'the new and beautiful art of getting up the face and eyes in the most brilliant style'.

The 'Philosopher' praises Miss Talbot's endeavours, quoting John Milton's 'L'Allegro' and Algernon C. Swinburne's 'Hymn to Proserpine' in the process.

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    y separately published work icon The Empire no. 5238 3 September 1868 7278001 1868 newspaper issue 1868 pg. 4
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The Peripatetic Philosopher Q. , 1868 single work prose satire
— Appears in: The Australasian , 29 August vol. 5 no. 126 (New Series) 1868; (p. 273)

Q. muses on matters political and social. Included in his subjects is an observation on an advertisement placed in newspapers in Victoria by a Miss Talbot. The lady offers, for 'thirty twopenny stamps', to provide full directions for 'the new and beautiful art of getting up the face and eyes in the most brilliant style'.

Q. praises Miss Talbot's endeavours, quoting John Milton's 'L'Allegro' and Algernon C. Swinburne's 'Hymn to Proserpine' in the process.
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