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.
The author calls the presence of a recently bereaved widow and family, her husband the victim of a murder, at a performance at the Theatre Royal, Sydney as 'illustrative of the low state of feeling which a brief residence in this Colony is almost certain to produce'. The play performed was the Tower of Nesle, portraying 'almost fiendish murders'.
Advertisement for performance at the Theatre Royal, Sydney, on 24 February 1838 of Gustavus and the Lady and the Devil. The performance of the Lady and the Devil is advertised as ‘for the third time in this colony.' The advertisement in the Commercial Journal gives advance notice of a forthcoming production of the 'Grand Romantic Drama of Faustus'.
