This issue of the Australasian also includes:
An advertisement for various international works from London publisher Cassell, Petter and Galpin, available from George Robertson, 'sole agent for the Australian colonies'.
An advertisement for 'Dickens's works at English price' available from George Robertson, Melbourne. Works advertised are: The Pickwick Papers, Martin Chuzzlewit, Dombey and Son, Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield, The Old Curiosity Shop, Oliver Twist, Christmas Books and Barnaby Rudge.
An advertisement for 'Nimmo's Edition of the Poets', 'the cheapest, the most elegant, and the best adapted for presentation'. Poets include: Longfellow, Scott, Byron, Moore, Wordsworth, Cowper, Milton, Thomson, Goldsmith, Beattie, Pope, Burns, Chaucer and Shakespeare.
An advertisement for Nimmo's library edition of standard works including works by Shakespeare, Burns, Goldsmith, Josephus and the Arabian Nights. All are available from George Robertson, Melbourne.
An advertisement for Nimmo's Pocket Treasures including Epigrams and Literary Follies, Treasury of Poetic Gems, Beauties of the British Dramatists and works by Samuel Johnson and Williams Shakespeare. All are available at George Robertson's, Melbourne.
An advertisement for Nimmo's Crown Library including works by Burns, Longfellow and Byron. All are available at George Robertson's, Melbourne.
An advertisement for Nimmo's Common-place books', published in Edinburgh and available from George Robertson, Melbourne.
An advertisement for the June 1868 issue of the Colonial Monthly.
An advertisement for assorted new books and new editions, including dictionaries, travel, legal and scientific books, and an encyclopaedia of sports and pastimes for boys, available from 'Samuel Mullen, Bookseller, 55 Collins-street east'.
An advertisement for the Melbourne bookseller and stationer, Charles Muskett.
An advertisement for two collections of Irish poetry, ballads and songs, available from Charles Muskett, 78 Bourke-street east.
An advertisement for various collections of material for readings and recitals, and for popular entertainments, available from Charles Muskett, 78 Bourke-street east.
An advertisement for volumes of poetry by Longfellow, Byron, Burns and Shakespeare, available from Charles Muskett, 78 Bourke-street.
An advertisement to printers advising the availability of letterpress, types of all kinds, bookbinders' tools, etc from printer's broker, F. B. Franklyn.
The 'Walking Poster' comments on the unlikely plots conjured by novelists for their works of fiction, and also reflects on the the role of the 'walking poster' (i.e. a 'sandwich man' or a walker who carried advertising billboards).
The writer for the Australasian's 'Topics of the Week' trespasses 'on the province of our respected friend [and theatre reviewer] "Jaques"'. The writer provides an account of a 'meeting' held at St George's Hall on 13 June 1868; the meeting's purpose 'seemed to be to furnish a humourous travestie of an English political meeting'.
