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Issue Details: First known date: 1868... vol. 5 no. 118 (New Series) 4 July 1868 of The Australasian est. 1864 The Australasian
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Notes

  • This issue of the Australasian also includes:

    • advertisements for a range of classical and popular sheet music; publications on geology, cookery, medicine, cattle breeding and cordial making; and the Dictionaire de L'Academie Francais (p. 2)
    • the text of a sermon preached by the Rev'd C. H. Spurgeon at the Music Hall, Royal Surrey Gardens, London (pp. 4, 29)
    • miscellaneous pars (p. 7)
    • a review of Gerard Krefft's Notes on the Fauna of Tasmania (1868) (p. 8)
    • several accounts, reproduced from the British press, of the assassination attempt on the life H. R. H. Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh (p. 23)

Contents

* Contents derived from the 1868 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Dickens's Works at English Price, single work advertisement

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.

 (p. 2)
Lacy's Comic Reciter, &c., single work advertisement

An advertisement for various collections of material for readings and recitals, and for popular entertainments, available from Charles Muskett, 78 Bourke-street east.

 (p. 2)
An Entirely New Catalogue An Entire New Catalogue, single work advertisement

An advertisement for a 115-page catalogue 'containing 4,800 valuable lots New and Secondhand Books', available from Dwight's booksellers.

 (p. 2)
Charles Muskett, Bookseller and Stationer, single work advertisement

An advertisement for the Melbourne bookseller and stationer, Charles Muskett.

 (p. 2)
Dwight's Catalogue : 4,800 Lots, single work advertisement

An advertisement for Dwight's catalogue containing 4,800 lots 'forming the best miscellaneous collections, new and secondhand, hitherto published in Australia'.

 (p. 2)
Dwight's Catalogue : Nearly Ready, New and Secondhand Books, single work advertisement

An advertisement for Dwight's catalogue, 'nearly ready', of new and secondhand books 'including History, Biography, Voyages, Travels, Theology, Fine Arts'.

 (p. 2)
Hazlitt's Bibliography of Old English Literature, &c., single work advertisement

An advertisement for William Carew Hazlitt's 'Bibliography of Old English Literature' (probably the Hand-Book to the Popular, Poetical, and Dramatic Literature of Great Britain, from the Invention of Printing to the Restoration (1867)) and Nisard's Histoire des Livres Populaire, available from Dwight's booksellers, 'near Parliament Houses'.

 (p. 2)
London Miscellany, single work advertisement

An advertisement for parts 4-8 of London Miscellany, available from Charles Muskett, bookseller.

 (p. 2)
How We Manage Our Mouse-Trap, 'A Settler's Wife' , single work prose (p. 6)
A Doctor's Story, single work prose

An 'up-country' doctor tells the story of attending a dying farmer. The farmer, a 'native of a small village in Normandy', relates the murderous event that led to his leaving his homeland, escaping on a 'convict vessel' bound for New South Wales. After spending 'a few years' in the colony of New South Wales, the man re-settles and prospers, but never knows 'one minute's peace'.

 (p. 6)
Her Dancingi"But there danced she, who from the leaven", Coventry Patmore , extract poetry (p. 7)
Line Written for a Child : A Birthday Petition to a Butterflyi"'Everybody must kiss me.", Menella Bute Smedley , Elizabeth Anna Hart , single work poetry (p. 7)
Poems of Walt Whitman, single work review
— Review of Poems Walt Whitman , 1868 selected work poetry ; (p. 8)
Essendon Pound, Adam Lindsay Gordon , single work correspondence (p. 11)
The Pleasures of the Chasei"Know ye the county whose soft velvet pastures", single work poetry (p. 11)
The Colonial Monthly, July 1868, single work advertisement

An advertisement for the July 1868 issue of the Colonial Monthly.

 (p. 15)
About Town, 'Lounger' , single work prose

'Lounger' reflects on Melbourne's recent political and social events including the behaviour of women at social occasions.

 (p. 17)
The Theatres, &c., Jaques (fl. 1866-1868) , single work review
— Review of Our City W. B. Gill , 1868 single work drama ; (p. 18)
Note: Print on this page blurred and barely legible.
Spurgeon's Sermons, single work advertisement

An advertisement for Charles Haddon Spurgeon's sermons 'in large quantities', available from Buzzard, Melbourne.

 (p. 29)
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