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.
This short paragraph is published in a column entitled 'Hobart Town Extracts'. It notes that 'We understand, that so soon as the season closes, Meredith with several other performers intend proceeding to Sydney; and that a company of gentlemen are about to undertake the management of the theatre in this town [i.e. Sydney]'. It is taken from Bent's News and Tasmanian Register, 10 February 1838.
This short paragraph is published in a column entitled 'Hobart Town Extracts'. It is taken from the The True Colonist and Van Diemen's Land Political Despatch and Agricultural and Commercial Advertiser, 9 February 1838.
Advertisement for: Performance on 27 February 1838 of: ‘for the 2nd time in this colony, the Mello Drama, of Maurice the Woodcutter’ [Charles A. Somerset, 1829]; and ‘the favourite Musical Burletta called The Married Bachelor, or, Master and Man', [P. P. O'Callaghan, 1821]; ‘To conclude with (first time at half-price,) the Comic Drama, in Two Acts, entitled The Lady and the Devil’, [William Dimond, 1820]
