'A large assortment of publications of a secular and religious character has just been received from England and is now on sale at the Depot, 31 Park street, and on Saturday evening at the [Working Men's Book] Society’s stand in the Haymarket.'
An advertisement for the 1868 edition of Moore's Australian Almanac and Handbook.
This editorial, on the progress and availability of newspapers in colonial New South Wales (in particular The Empire and The Evening News), ends with a quotation from William Cullen Bryant's 'Thanatopsis'.
Brief review.
The writer includes the following comment: 'Charles Harpur, a name familiar to all readers of poetry in New South Wales, we are glad to see once more in print.'
A brief notice on two newly published 1868 almanacs: Sands Commercial Sheet Almanac and Moore's Australian Almanac and Hand Book.
An imagined conversation between a Sydney resident and Prince Albert, Duke of Edinburgh (who visited the colonies during 1867-1868), about the governance, administration and public architecture of New South Wales.
