A detailed report on the 15 July 1868 meeting of the Goulburn Catholic Literary Association. The evening took the form of an entertainment to aid the association's library fund. The musical program was interspersed with recitations. The latter comprised an excerpt from William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and the following poems: George Henry Boker's 'The Black Regiment', 'Hodge and the Vicar', Campbell's 'The Battle of Hohenlinden', Coates's 'The Gamber's Wife' and J. M. Knowles's 'Tell's Address to His Native Mountains'.