This issue of the Australasian also includes:
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 'enlarged and illustrated' Colonial Monthly. The 'present management ... will not restrict themselves entirely to colonial productions' and intend, from time to time, 'to offer to their readers specially-made translations of the most noteworthy articles in current French and German literature'. The proprietors further commit themselves to presenting 'a worthy representative of the literary talent of the Australian colonies.'.
An advertisement for the London Journal.
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 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 C. Wade Browne's Overlanding in Australia, available from George Robertson, Elizabeth-street, Melbourne.
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.
The writer of 'The Slave Songs of the Sunny South' characterises 'negro' culture, especially music, prior to the Civil War.
The Australasian's review of the March 1868 issue of the Colonial Monthly concludes: 'the Colonial Monthly is undeniably the best thing of the kind that the colonies have seen yet, and marvellously cheap at a shilling. The proprietors deserve success, and we hope that they will get it.'
An account of an expedition from Colac to the Gellibrand River for a day's flying fishing.
Q. reflects on a rift between George Seth Coppin and Walter Montgomery, and also comments on some recent political and social events.
In addition to the two reviews, Jaques also reports on the serious stage accident at the Duke of Edinburgh (aka Haymarket) Theatre befalling the actor Mr Hill.
An advertisement for the Melbourne printing firm, Stillwell and Knight.
