This issue of the Australasian also includes:
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 various collections of material for readings and recitals, and for popular entertainments, available from Charles Muskett, 78 Bourke-street east.
An advertisement for a 115-page catalogue 'containing 4,800 valuable lots New and Secondhand Books', available from Dwight's booksellers.
An advertisement for the Melbourne bookseller and stationer, Charles Muskett.
An advertisement for Dwight's catalogue containing 4,800 lots 'forming the best miscellaneous collections, new and secondhand, hitherto published in Australia'.
An advertisement for Dwight's catalogue, 'nearly ready', of new and secondhand books 'including History, Biography, Voyages, Travels, Theology, Fine Arts'.
An advertisement for William Carew Hazlitt's 'Bibliography of Old English Literature' (probably the Hand-Book to the Popular, Poetical, and Dramatic Literature of Great Britain, from the Invention of Printing to the Restoration (1867)) and Nisard's Histoire des Livres Populaire, available from Dwight's booksellers, 'near Parliament Houses'.
An advertisement for parts 4-8 of London Miscellany, available from Charles Muskett, bookseller.
An 'up-country' doctor tells the story of attending a dying farmer. The farmer, a 'native of a small village in Normandy', relates the murderous event that led to his leaving his homeland, escaping on a 'convict vessel' bound for New South Wales. After spending 'a few years' in the colony of New South Wales, the man re-settles and prospers, but never knows 'one minute's peace'.
An advertisement for the July 1868 issue of the Colonial Monthly.
'Lounger' reflects on Melbourne's recent political and social events including the behaviour of women at social occasions.
An advertisement for Charles Haddon Spurgeon's sermons 'in large quantities', available from Buzzard, Melbourne.