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Issue Details: First known date: 1868... vol. 4 no. 94 (New Series) 18 January 1868 of The Australasian est. 1864 The Australasian
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Notes

  • This issue of the Australasian also includes:

    • advertisements for: Hanover Square: A Magazine of New and Copyright Pianoforte and Vocal Music; 'Whitehead's new map of Victoria'; a British art journal, Chromolithograph; the official post office Directory of Victoria; an electors handbook; unspecified annuals, almanacs and dictionaries; a 'handbook for the guidance of common schools'; valentines; and The Australian Cookery Book (all on p. 66)
    • miscellaneous pars (p. 70)
    • an announcement stating: 'A new work by Victor Hugo, The Ideas of the Three Revolutions, is announced to appear shortly' (p. 78) [This work has not yet been identified among Hugo's known publications]
    • a list of publications received (p. 80)
    • advertisements for various Melbourne amusements (p. 80)
    • the text of an address presented to the Rev. J. Oswald Dykes on his departure from the colony and Dykes's response (p. 84)

Contents

* Contents derived from the 1868 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Burns's Poetical Works, single work advertisement

An advertisement for a volume of Robert Burns's poetical works, available from George Robertson, 69 Elizabeth Street Melbourne.

(p. 66)
A New Monthly Magazine, Edited by Anthony Trollope, single work advertisement

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.

(p. 66)
Now Ready ... : The Written Word, and Other Essays, single work advertisement

An advertisement for J. Oswald Dykes's collection of essays, The Written Word, and Other Essays, published in Melbourne by Samuel Mullen in 1868.

(p. 66)
A Bird in a Golden Cage : Colonial Story for Christmas Time, single work advertisement

An advertisement for J. E. Neild's novella A Bird in a Golden Cage.

(p. 66)
The London Journal, single work advertisement

An advertisement for the London Journal.

(p. 66)
Shakespeare, Burns, &c., single work advertisement

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.

(p. 66)
Announcement: Read the Hamlet Controvery, single work advertisement

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.

(p. 66)
Literature & Art : Literary and Artistic Gossip, single work column

A collection of short items, largely derived from international newspapers, concerning happenings in the worlds of literature and art. Events mentioned include:

(p. 70)
Two Summer Eveningsi"Thro' the orchard path I wandered", 'Alpha' (fl. 1868) , single work poetry (p. 70)
Home Letters : Our London Letter, single work correspondence

An overview of news from England including a paragraph on 'testimoninals and dinners' for 'our literary men', namely Anthony Trollope and Charles Dickens

(p. 72)
No Thoroughfare, single work advertisement

An announcement that the Australasian will be begin serialising Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins's No Thoroughfare on 25 January 1868, 'the proprietors of this journal having purchased the right of republishing the work in Australia'.

(p. 80)
The Peripatetic Philosopher : No. 9, Q. , single work prose

'Q' deliberates on various political and social matters relating to the colony of Victoria and to Melbourne in particular.

(p. 81)
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Topics of the Week, single work column

The Australasian has pleasure in 'informing our readers that next week we shall commence the publication of a the new story written by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins for the Christmas number of All the Year Round. By an arrangement with the English publishers, early copies have been sent to this journal.'

The column also notes that Bell's Life in Victoria and Sporting Chronicle has now been incorporated with the Australasian.

Further 'Topics of the Week' in this column are largely of a political nature.

(p. 81-82)
The Theatres, &c., single work column

Jaques writes at length on the operas being performed in Melbourne before turning his attention to the theatre. Jacques briefly notes the productions of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's Pizarro and William 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. He then discusses the accomplishments of the Japanese acrobatic troupe, and the literary readings delivered by Walter Montgomery.

Lastly, Jaques comments on progress in establishing a 'Dramatic College' in Melbourne with contributions towards the fund coming from 'the Galatea amateurs', George Selth Coppin, and the proceeds of readings by G. V. Brooke.

(p. 82)
Public Reading, 'Tumulus' , single work correspondence (p. 92)

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