Cirrus@Austlit

An advertisement for the London monthly The Young Ladies' Journal. The advertisement states that the magazine 'contains suitable reading for families, ... interesting to everybody at home and abroad'.

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 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 Mark Twain's The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Stories, available from Charles Muskett, 28 Bourke-street east.

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 column enunciating the esprit de corps that exists, or is encouraged, among the journalists and their respective newspapers in Victoria.

After discussing some political issues and noting the departure from Victoria of H. R. H. Prince Alfred, 'Q' comments on the opinion of the prince's equerry, Mr Eliot Yorke, on the subject of poor English pronunciation in Australia. 'Q' also questions the whereabouts of funds raised for a 'Dramatic College' and for a 'Shakespeare memorial'.