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Notes
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This issue of the Australasian also includes:
- advertisements for a range of classical and popular sheet music; publications on geology, cookery, medicine and cattle breeding; and a range of 'Nimmo's Handy Outlines of Useful Knowledge' (p. 802)
- the text of a sermon preached by the Rev'd C. H. Spurgeon at Exeter Hall, The Strand, London (pp. 804, 829)
- miscellaneous pars (p. 807)
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'The Vice-chancellor (Dr. A. C. Brownless, M.D.) offers a prize of twenty guineas for the best English poem, open to all matriculated students of the University not of standing for the degree of master of arts. Subject – "Prince Alfred's Visit to Australia". The composition to be in the Spenserian stanza, or in rhymed heroic verse, and not be less than 200 lines, nor more than 400.' (p. 820)
Contents
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Dickens's Works at English Price,
single work
advertisement
(p. 802)
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.
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Nimmo's Edition of the Poets,
single work
advertisement
(p. 802)
An advertisement for 'Nimmo's Edition of the Poets', 'the cheapest, the most elegant, and the best adapted for presentation'. Poets include: Longfellow, Scott, Byron, Moore, Wordsworth, Cowper, Milton, Thomson, Goldsmith, Beattie, Pope, Burns, Chaucer and Shakespeare.
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Nimmo's Library Edition of Standard Works,
single work
advertisement
(p. 802)
An advertisement for Nimmo's library edition of standard works including works by Shakespeare, Burns, Goldsmith, Josephus and the Arabian Nights. All are available from George Robertson, Melbourne.
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Nimmo's Pocket Treasures,
single work
advertisement
(p. 802)
An advertisement for Nimmo's Pocket Treasures including Epigrams and Literary Follies, Treasury of Poetic Gems, Beauties of the British Dramatists and works by Samuel Johnson and Williams Shakespeare. All are available at George Robertson's, Melbourne.
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Nimmo's Common-Place Books,
single work
advertisement
(p. 802)
An advertisement for Nimmo's Common-place books', published in Edinburgh and available from George Robertson, Melbourne.
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The Young Ladies' Journal,
single work
advertisement
(p. 802)
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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Charles Muskett, Bookseller and Stationer,
single work
advertisement
(p. 802)
An advertisement for the Melbourne bookseller and stationer, Charles Muskett.
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Emerson's Complete Works,
single work
advertisement
(p. 802)
An advertisement for 'Emerson's Complete Works' (comprising two volumes), available from Samuel Mullen, 55 Collins-street east.
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Lacy's Comic Reciter, &c.,
single work
advertisement
(p. 802)
An advertisement for various collections of material for readings and recitals, and for popular entertainments, available from Charles Muskett, 78 Bourke-street east.
- Moss on a Walli"Dim dreams it hath of singing ways,", single work poetry (p. 807)
- A Lesson on Physicsi"You see her in the merry dance–", single work poetry (p. 807)
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Pains and Pleasures of Reporting,
extract
prose
(p. 807)
This extract from 'Our Own Reporter' focuses on the trials of accurately reporting politicians who speak rapidly. The writer prefers orators such as Gladstone and Disraeli who pronounce every word distinctly.
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Our Indian Heroes,
single work
review
— Review of Lives of Indian Officers, Illustrative of the History of the Civil and Military Services of India 1867 selected work biography ; (p. 808) -
The Theatres, &c.,
single work
column
(p. 818)
In his weekly overview of Melbourne's theatrical life, Jaques concentrates on the return to Melbourne of operatic soprano Anna Bishop and on the farewell performances of actor Walter Montgomery. Jaques also notes the performance of Dion Bouciault's Rip Van Winkle at the Duke of Edinburgh Theatre, mentions the upcoming production of W. B. Gill's Our City ('having been six weeks in preparation'), and comments briefly on the Gourlay family's entertainments at the Polytechnic.
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Cassell, Petter, and Galpin's Popular and Illustrated Publications,
single work
advertisement
An advertisement for various international works from London publisher Cassell, Petter and Galpin, available from George Robertson, 'sole agent for the Australian colonies'.
