Advertisement for Tegg's New South Wales Pocket Almanac and Remembrancer 1838.
Column on the English author, traveller and journalist J. S. Buckingham. This column may have been reproduced from Murray's Review (the Austral-Asiatic Review), 30 January [1838].
Advertisement for a lengthy list of books for sale including, Cook's (Capt.) Voyages Round the World and other works of biography, autobiography, and travel. Shakespeare's Dramatic Works (1 vol.), Aesop's Fables, Nights of the Round Table, and the Life and Exploits of Don Quixote. Novels include Coelebs in Search of a Wife, by Mrs Hannah More, works by Mrs Hemans [Felicia Hemans] and Mrs Hofland [Barbara Hofland]. Works for children are advertised including Original Tales for Infant Minds, Rhymes for the Nursery, Juvenile Everyday Book, Mrs Leslie and her Grandchildren [by Mrs Hamerton] and Tales for Winter Evenings. Other titles include, Sir Frizzle Pumpkin, Nights of Mess, and Other Tales [by James White], Encyclopaedia of Romance, by [the Rev. Henry] Martineau, Anecdote Library, Seymour's Comic Album, Mirror of Literature [Amusement and instruction], Sherwood Forest and Other Poems [by Robert Millhouse], Bowdler's Poems and Essays, and London Minstrel, a Collection of Songs Set to Music. Non-fiction titles include encyclopaedias and dictionaries, works on history, domestic sciences, religion, the animal and plant kingdoms, Redding on Wines, medicine, phrenology, temperance and books for the school room.
Advertisement for: the '[r]emainder of Mr. Tawell's well chosen Library ... etc. ... [t]he Library comprises some of the best Standard Works of the day ; amongst the rest there are, viz.-'
The 'best Standard Works' are not listed, books for sale listed as 'amongst the rest' include Middleton's Dictionary of Arts, etc with plates; Penny Magazines (5 vols) for 1832, 1833, 1834, 1835 and 1836; Anson's and Sir Edward Parry's Voyages; Blair's Lectures [on Rhetoric and Belles-Lettres]; Parents Cabinet [of Amusement and Instruction]; Paley's Works; Sketches in London [by James Grant] and works of non-fiction.
An advertisement for performance at the Royal Victoria Theatre, Sydney, of 'the Comedy in 3 Acts, called Married Life', [John Baldwin Buckstone,1834] and 'the Serious Drama, in 3 Acts, called Therese, or, The Orphan of Geneva', [Henri Joseph Brahaim Ducange Victor, translated and adapted for the English stage by John Howard Payne, 1821].
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