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This issue of the Australasian also includes:
- advertisements for books on agriculture, farming, games, sports, pastimes, 'society and the person', and standard reference works (p. 482)
- advertisements for a printed copy of the Old Colonists' Address, presented to to H. R. H. Prince Alfred, the Duke of Edinburgh in January 1868, and published by E. Whitebread & Co. (p. 482)
- advertisements for Rays fro' the Loominary, penny readings in the Lancashire dialect, and for a pamphlet by Manasseh ben Israel titled To His Highnesse the Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland: The Humble Addresses of Menasseh Ben Israel, a Divine, and Doctor of Physic, in Behalfe of the Jewish Nation; (p. 482)
- the text of two sermons preached by the Rev'd C. H. Spurgeon at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington, London (pp. 484, 508-509)
- miscellaneous pars (p. 487)
- a column of English 'Literary Gossip' (p. 503)
Contents
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Popular Editions of Recent Novels,
single work
advertisement
(p. 482)
An advertisement for 'Popular Editions of Recent Novels, just received by George Robertson'. Authors whose works are listed include: Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Edmund Yates, Charles Lever, Thomas Hardy and Elizabeth Gaskell.
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A New Monthly Magazine, Edited by Anthony Trollope,
single work
advertisement
(p. 482)
An advertisement for St Paul's Magazine, 'a new monthly magazine of fiction, art and literature, edited by Anthony Trollope and illustrated by J. E. Millais.
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The Young Ladies' Journal,
single work
advertisement
(p. 482)
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'.
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The London Journal,
single work
advertisement
(p. 482)
An advertisement for the London Journal.
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Burns's Poems,
single work
advertisement
(p. 482)
An advertisement for poetry by Robert Burns and Lord Byron, and for the complete works of William Shakespeare, all available from Charlwood.
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Carpenter's Penny Readings,
single work
advertisement
(p. 482) Section: http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article137571691
An advertisement for Carpenter's Penny Readings 'in prose and verse', published in London by Frederick Warne & Co., and available from Charlwood & Son.
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Dwight, Bookseller,
single work
advertisement
(p. 482)
H. T. Dwight, Bookseller, 'near Parliament, solicits inspection of his stock'.
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The Australian Second Book by M. A. Pitt,
single work
advertisement
(p. 482)
An advertisement for M. A. Pitt's children's reader, The Australian Second Book, published by George Robertson.
- The Falconi"Lillian and Christabel", single work poetry (p. 487)
- Ah! Why!i"Why sits that maiden sad and pale", single work poetry humour (p. 487)
- Our Father's Landi"God bless our Father's land,", single work poetry (p. 487)
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Home Letters : Our London Letter,
single work
correspondence
(p. 488)
An overview of news from England including a paragraph on 'the artistic and literary doings of February'. Newly released biographies and novels are noted, and poet laureate Alfred Tennyson is mentioned as is Algernon Charles Swinburne's William Blake: A Critical Essay.
- Racing Ethics, single work prose (p. 489)
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The Peripatetic Philosopher,
single work
prose
(p. 497)
Q. muses on the business of holiday-making (in the post-Easter period), and on the behaviour and character of 'colonial youth'.
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The Theatres, &c.,
single work
review
— Review of Caste 1867 single work drama ; Paris the Prince and Helen the Fair ; Or, The Giant Horse and the Siege of Troy 1868 single work musical theatre ;(p. 498)A review of the April 1868 Duke of Edinburgh Theatre production of Thomas William Robertson's Caste and the Theatre Royal's production of William Akhurst's burlesque Paris the Prince and Helen the Fair.
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Stillwell and Knight, Printers,
single work
advertisement
(p. 510)
An advertisement for the Melbourne printing firm, Stillwell and Knight.
