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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, cattle breeding and cordial making; and the Dictionaire de L'Academie Francais (p. 34)
- the text of a sermon preached by the Rev'd C. H. Spurgeon at the Music Hall, Royal Surrey Gardens, London (pp. 36, 61)
- miscellaneous pars (p. 39)
Contents
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Lacy's Comic Reciter, &c.,
single work
advertisement
(p. 34)
An advertisement for various collections of material for readings and recitals, and for popular entertainments, available from Charles Muskett, 78 Bourke-street east.
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No Ready, the Country Edition of the Illustrated Melbourne Post for the July Mail,
single work
advertisement
(p. 34)
An advertisement for the July 1868 issue of the Illustrated Melbourne Post. The issue features 'a splendid colour picture, illustrative of Aboriginal customs'.
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The Young Ladies' Journal,
single work
advertisement
(p. 34)
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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An Entirely New Catalogue
An Entire New Catalogue,
single work
advertisement
(p. 34)
An advertisement for a 115-page catalogue 'containing 4,800 valuable lots New and Secondhand Books', available from Dwight's booksellers.
Note: With title: An Entirely New Catalogue -
Dwight's Catalogue : Nearly Ready, New and Secondhand Books,
single work
advertisement
(p. 34)
An advertisement for Dwight's catalogue, 'nearly ready', of new and secondhand books 'including History, Biography, Voyages, Travels, Theology, Fine Arts'.
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Dwight's Catalogue : 4,800 Lots,
single work
advertisement
(p. 34)
An advertisement for Dwight's catalogue containing 4,800 lots 'forming the best miscellaneous collections, new and secondhand, hitherto published in Australia'.
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Hazlitt's Bibliography of Old English Literature, &c.,
single work
advertisement
(p. 34)
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'.
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London Miscellany,
single work
advertisement
(p. 34)
An advertisement for parts 4-8 of London Miscellany, available from Charles Muskett, bookseller.
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The Following Books, Post Free,
single work
advertisement
(p. 34)
An advertisement for various books, including some for children, available from Samuel Mullen, 55 Collins-street east. Titles include Merry Tales for Little Folk edited by Madame de Chatelain and The Chimney Corner by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
- Woman's Sphere, single work single work prose (p. 39)
- Take the Train Awayi"Go, cut it off, my daughters dear,", single work poetry humour (p. 39)
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Memoir of Baron Bunsen,
single work
review
— Review of A Memoir of Baron Bunsen, Late Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary of His Majesty Frederic William IV at the Court of St. James, Drawn Chiefly from Family Papers 1868 single work biography ; (p. 40) - A Day with the Melbourne Hounds, single work prose (p. 43-44)
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About Town,
single work
prose
(p. 49)
'Lounger' reflects on Melbourne's recent political and social events.
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The Theatres, &c.,
single work
review
— Review of The Octoroon; or, Life in Louisiana 1859 single work drama ; Our City 1868 single work drama ; The Ticket-of-Leave Man 1863 single work drama ;(p. 50)A review of the performances of Dion Boucicault's The Octoroon, of W. B. Gill's Our City, and of Tom Taylor's The Ticket-of-Leave Man, all at the Duke of Edinburgh Theatre, Melbourne, July 1868.
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Mr. Dickens at New York,
single work
column
(p. 60)
An overview, including part of the text of Dickens's speech, of Charles Dickens's farewell dinner with New York's gentlemen of the press.
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Spurgeon's Sermons,
single work
advertisement
(p. 61)
An advertisement for Charles Haddon Spurgeon's sermons 'in large quantities', available from Buzzard, Melbourne.
