This issue of the Australasian also includes:
An advertisement for assorted English books for adults and children, including works by Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray, available from 'Samuel Mullen, Bookseller, 55 Collins-street east'.
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 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 advertisement for the 'Illustrated London News, London Punch, and other English periodicals', available from Samuel Mullen, Bookseller, 55 Collins-street east.
An advertisement for the newly published Narrative of the Visit of His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh to the Colony of Victoria.
An advertisement for M. A. Pitt's children's reader, The Australian Second Book, published by George Robertson.
An advertisement for the March 1868 issue of the Colonial Monthly containing the first instalment of Marcus Clarke's Long Odds.
Q. muses, among other matters, on the English custom of 'consolation dinners' for defeated candidates in elections and on the fate of a convict named Garratt who continues his criminal ways.
Jaques provides details of John Charles Lambert's decision to quit the Melbourne stage. The full text of Lambert's farewell speech is reproduced.
Jaques also reviews the Princess Theatre's production of Colin Henry Hazlewood's Poul a Dhoil and notes the productions of The Will and the Way and Simon Lee at the the Duke of Edinburgh (aka Haymarket) Theatre.
An account of the annual picnic day provided by the proprietors of the Argus and Australasian newspapers for their printing, literary and editorial staff. Among those in attendance was 'that genial veteran of the Australian press, John Fairfax, of Sydney'.
An advertisement for the Melbourne printing firm, Stillwell and Knight.
