This issue of the Australasian also contains:
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 'Illustrated London News, London Punch, and other English periodicals', available from Samuel Mullen, Bookseller, 55 Collins-street east.
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'.
H. T. Dwight, Bookseller, 'near Parliament, solicits inspection of his stock'.
An advertisement for M. A. Pitt's children's reader, The Australian Second Book, published by George Robertson.
H. T. Dwight, Bookseller, 'near Parliament, solicits inspection of his stock'.
A review of volume two of Despatches, Correspondence, and Memoranda of Field Marshal Arthur, Duke of Wellington.
An overview of news from England including a paragraph on 'the publishers' list' to see 'what we have had in the way of new books during the past month'. As regards 'literary gossip there is but little, except that Tennyson has taken to writing some very inferior verses for Once a Week and Good Words'.
Q. begins his column with the bold assertion: 'I am not a Fenian' before going on to 'say a few words regarding Fenians' in general (written in the light of Irishman Henry James O'Farrell's assassination attempt on H. R. H. Prince Alfred, the Duke of Edinburgh).
In the latter part of the column, Q. reflects on his 'recent accession to the ranks of authorship'. He is probably referring to the publication of his serialised novel Long Odds: A Novel, the first instalment of which appeared in the March 1868 issue of the Colonial Monthly.
A review of the March 1868 production of Dion Boucicault's Collen Bawn at the Theatre Royal and W. B. Gill's Red Island at the Princess's Theatre. Francis Cowley Burnand's Acis and Galatea is also mentioned; it was being produced simultaneously at the Theatre Royal and at the Princess's Theatre.
Jaques also notes other theatrical happenings in Melbourne and records news of the death of English actor Charles Kean who had performed on the Melbourne stage in 1863.
In addition to many political matters, 'Notes of the Month' includes a section on the latest literary offerings in England. Among the books referred to are Queen Victoria's Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands ... and Algernon Swinburne's essay on William Blake. Mention is also made of Alfred Tennyson's poetry contributions to English journals.
An advertisement to printers advising the availability of letterpress, types of all kinds, bookbinders' tools, etc from printer's broker, F. B. Franklyn.
An advertisement for the Melbourne printing firm, Stillwell and Knight.
