This short poem, presented as an epigraph to 'A Literary Controversy at Sea', is a parody of Beverley Suttor's verse.
An overview of performances for the last part of the 1838 season at the Royal Victoria Theatre in Sydney. People mentioned include John Lazar and the machinist James Belmore. Three short reports on the performance of the actor Jacobs, the play to be presented that evening (All for Love; or, The Lost Pleiad), and the welfare of Maria Taylor, who had fallen through a trap door on the stage of the Royal Victoria, appear at the end of the main column.
'Poem "Gale at Sea" by Whimsa is derided for a supposed pleonasm, actually misunderstood as E. L. points out in a "Pindaric Epistle, To the Editor of 'the Traveller', in refutation of certain allegations".' (Webby)
The poems are separately indexed.
Advertisement for a performance at the Royal Victoria Theatre, Sydney, on 26 December 1838 of a 'Grand Romantic Drama, in three Acts, entitled All For Love' and a 'laughable and favorite Farce, called The Turned Head'. The performance included the ballad 'The Groves of Blarney' sung by Arthur Falchon and a dance by Miss Lazaar.
