y separately published work icon The Australasian newspaper issue  
Issue Details: First known date: 1868... vol. 4 no. 95 (New Series) 25 January 1868 of The Australasian est. 1864 The Australasian
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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. 98)
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. 98)
The Young Ladies' Journal, single work advertisement

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'.

 (p. 98)
The London Journal, single work advertisement

An advertisement for the London Journal.

 (p. 98)
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. 98)
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. 98)
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. 98)
A Carol of Carolus : Echoes from the Clubsi"Right, Lytton, right. The English tongue", single work poetry (p. 102)
Reminiscences of a Septuagenarian, Emma Sophia Edgcumbe Cust Brownlow, Countess , extract autobiography (p. 104)
Australian Discovery, single work review
— Review of The History of Discovery in Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand: From the Earliest Date to the Present Day William Howitt , 1865 single work non-fiction ; (p. 104)
The Dinner to Dickens, 'The Tatler' , single work column

An (unflattering) account of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton's farewell speech to Charles Dickens prior to the latter's departure for the USA.

 (p. 104)
Murrin and Wonga, single work review (p. 104)
The Theatres, &c., Jaques (fl. 1866-1868) , single work single work review
— Review of Pizarro, A Tragedy Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan , 1799 single work drama ; Tom Tom the Piper's Son, and Mary Mary Quite Contrary ; Or, Harlequin Piggy Wiggy, and the Good Child's History of England W. M. Akhurst , 1867 single work musical theatre ;

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.

 (p. 113-114)
Theatrical Memoranda: English, American, &c., 'The Prompter' , single work column

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.

 (p. 114)
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