This issue of the Australasian also includes:
An advertisement for George Robertson's Monthly Book Circular 82 (December 1867). The circular is a 'complete guide to all the New Books published in the Australian Colonies, or imported from Great Britain and America'.
An advertisement for a volume of Robert Burns's poetical works, available from George Robertson, 69 Elizabeth Street Melbourne.
An advertisement for various children's books, available from George Robertson, 69 Elizabeth Street and 23 Collins St East, Melbourne.
An advertisement for 'a cheap library edition' of Walter Scott's Waverley novels, available from George Robertson, 69 Elizabeth Street and 23 Collins Street East, Melbourne.
An advertisement for The Early Years of his Royal Highness the Prince Consort, 'compiled under the direction of Her Majesty the Queen', available from George Robertson, 69 Elizabeth Street Melbourne.
An advertisement for St Paul's Magazine, 'a new monthly magazine of fiction, art and literature, edited by Anthony Trollope and illustrated by J. E. Millais.
An advertisement for the London Journal.
An advertisement for J. Oswald Dykes's collection of essays, The Written Word, and Other Essays, published in Melbourne by Samuel Mullen in 1868.
An advertisement for J. E. Neild's novella A Bird in a Golden Cage.
An advertisement for unspecified volumes of works by William Shakespeare, Robert Burns, Lord Byron and Henry Longfellow, available from Charles Muskett, 78 Bourke Street, Melbourne.
An advertisement for the published collection of newspaper correspondence, Was Hamlet Mad?: Being a Series of Critiques on the Acting of the Late Walter Montgomery, available from the publisher and bookseller H. T. Dwight.
A critical article about the serialised novel Circe by Mary Elizabeth Braddon. The novel, published under the pseudonym Babington White, appeared in the pages of Braddon's journal Belgravia: A London Magazine between March and September 1867.
Among other topics, 'Q' responds 'a gentleman who signs himself "Autolycus", and who writes the theatrical reports for a weekly journal' who took exception to 'Q's' 'humble comments upon Mr. Hollingshead's remarks about dramatic critics'.
Jacques reflects on 'the rapid growth and development of burlesque', the notion of 'combining burlesque and pantomime', and the degeneration of the harlequinade into 'a rough bear-play'. His thoughts on this theme form the prelude to his review of the Theatre Royal's Christmas pantomime, W. M. Akhurst's Tom Tom the Piper's Son, and Mary Mary Quite Contrary; or, Harlequin Piggy Wiggy, and the Good Child's History of England.
Jaques also notes the Japanese acrobatic troupe performing at the Princess Theatre and Van Bree's St Cecilia's Day being performed at the Prahran Town Hall. Grace Egerton's 'amusing evenings' are mentioned briefly.
An extract from the Typographic Advertiser on the subject of 'copyrights or "remuneration to authors"'. The extract provides examples of monies paid to publishers and authors, noting specifically the case of Walter Scott.
