This issue of the Australasian also includes:
An advertisement for 'Popular Editions of Recent Novels, just received by George Robertson'. Authors whose works are listed include: Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Edmund Yates, Charles Lever, Thomas Hardy and Elizabeth Gaskell.
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 poetry by Robert Burns and Lord Byron, and for the complete works of William Shakespeare, all available from Charlwood.
An advertisement for Carpenter's Penny Readings 'in prose and verse', published in London by Frederick Warne & Co., and available from Charlwood & Son.
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.
An overview of news from England including a paragraph on 'the artistic and literary doings of February'. Newly released biographies and novels are noted, and poet laureate Alfred Tennyson is mentioned as is Algernon Charles Swinburne's William Blake: A Critical Essay.
Q. muses on the business of holiday-making (in the post-Easter period), and on the behaviour and character of 'colonial youth'.
A review of the April 1868 Duke of Edinburgh Theatre production of Thomas William Robertson's Caste and the Theatre Royal's production of William Akhurst's burlesque Paris the Prince and Helen the Fair.
An advertisement for the Melbourne printing firm, Stillwell and Knight.
