This issue of the Australasian also includes:
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 the July 1868 issue of the Illustrated Melbourne Post. The issue features 'a splendid colour picture, illustrative of Aboriginal customs'.
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 a 115-page catalogue 'containing 4,800 valuable lots New and Secondhand Books', available from Dwight's booksellers.
An advertisement for Dwight's catalogue, 'nearly ready', of new and secondhand books 'including History, Biography, Voyages, Travels, Theology, Fine Arts'.
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 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 advertisement for various books, including some for children, available from Samuel Mullen, 55 Collins-street east. Titles include Merry Tales for Little Folk edited by Madame de Chatelain and The Chimney Corner by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
'Lounger' reflects on Melbourne's recent political and social events.
A review of the performances of Dion Boucicault's The Octoroon, of W. B. Gill's Our City, and of Tom Taylor's The Ticket-of-Leave Man, all at the Duke of Edinburgh Theatre, Melbourne, July 1868.
An overview, including part of the text of Dickens's speech, of Charles Dickens's farewell dinner with New York's gentlemen of the press.
An advertisement for Charles Haddon Spurgeon's sermons 'in large quantities', available from Buzzard, Melbourne.
