This issue of the Australasian also includes:
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 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 the London Journal.
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.
An (unflattering) account of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton's farewell speech to Charles Dickens prior to the latter's departure for the USA.
An extensive report on the Lyster Opera Troupe is followed by reviews of the productions of Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan's Pizarro, a Tragedy and the 'burlesque portion' of 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 at the Theatre Royal.
Jaques' theatre round-up concludes with some comments on the performances of the Japanese acrobatic troupe at the Princess's Theatre.
A round-up of the international activities of actors, musicians, singers and other theatrical folk who at some point spent time in Australia. The column also reports on singer Julia Mathews' Covent Garden debut.
