An advertisement of over a column consisting of an extensive list of overseas magazines and books for sale by international writers including works by George Gordon (Baron) Byron, the poet William Cowper, John Milton, and Robert Southey.
Review of performances of the plays at the Royal Victoria Theatre, Sydney on 26 July 1838.
A brief comment complaining that the 'performance at the Theatre last Thursday was advertised as Shakespeare's play of Katherine and Petruchio when it should have been the Taming of the Shrew.'
A further brief comment under the heading 'Theatrical Errata' apologises for typographical errors in a review of the performance at the Royal Victoria Theatre published in the Commercial Journal and Advertiser on 25 July 1838 (2). The column also advises that 'the drama of Gil Blas will be produced on Monday next [30 July 1838]'.
Advertisement for a performance at the Royal Victoria Theatre, Sydney, on 28 July 1838 of the 'laughable Farce, called No Song No Supper' and the 'grand Romantic Drama, entitled The Jewess.
A column probably reprinted from an international newspaper or magazine. The article opines that writers such as Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan, Henry Brougham, Francis Bond Head, and Walter Scott are unfit for the higher duties of statesmen.