This issue of the Australasian also includes
An advertisement for 'handsomely bound' gift books available from George Robertson, 'importer of books and stationery'. Titles advertised include Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress and Aesop's Fables.
An advertisement for 'new and popular works' of history and biography available from George Robertson, 'importer of books and stationery'.
An advertisement for 'new and popular books' for the young available from George Robertson, 'importer of books and stationery'.
An advertisement for 'new works, and new editions of standard works' of poetry and drama, available from George Robertson, 'importer of books and stationery'. Titles advertised include poetry by Algernon Charles Swinburne, Walt Whitman, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Burns, Lord Byron, Geoffrey Chaucer and Edgar Allan Poe.
An advertisement for various humorous illustrated works, including pictures from Punch, available from George Robertson, 'importer of books and stationery'.
An advertisement for the Melbourne bookseller and stationer, Charles Muskett.
An advertisement for Dwight's catalogue containing 4,800 lots 'forming the best miscellaneous collections, new and secondhand, hitherto published in Australia'.
An advertisement for an 'Australian edition' of Edgar Allan Poe's poetical works, 'just published' and available from George Robertson.
'Actaeon' provides an account of a day's hunt in Melbourne.
Q. muses on matters political and social. Included in his subjects is an observation on an advertisement placed in newspapers in Victoria by a Miss Talbot. The lady offers, for 'thirty twopenny stamps', to provide full directions for 'the new and beautiful art of getting up the face and eyes in the most brilliant style'.
Q. praises Miss Talbot's endeavours, quoting John Milton's 'L'Allegro' and Algernon C. Swinburne's 'Hymn to Proserpine' in the process.
A review of the performance of John Poole's Paul Pry, Henry Thornton Craven's Milky White and Morris Barnett's The Serious Family at the Theatre Royal, and of Martial, the Adventurer at the Duke of Edinburgh Theatre, Melbourne, August 1868.
An advertisement for Charles Haddon Spurgeon's sermons 'in large quantities', available from Buzzard, Melbourne.
The Melbourne Trade Address Directory lists businesses alphabetically by type. The list, when first published (8 August 1868), included 'Booksellers & Stationers' (T. M. Buzzard, Charlwood & Son, Samuel Mullen, H. T. Dwight and G. Nichols) and 'Printers & Publishers' (Mason, Firth & Co., and Stillwell & Knight). On its subsequent appearances (15 August 1868 onwards), bookseller and stationer A. J. Smith was added to the list.
