y separately published work icon The Sydney Mail newspaper issue  
Issue Details: First known date: 1885... vol. 39 no. 1278 3 January 1885 of The Sydney Mail est. 1860-1938 The Sydney Mail
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* Contents derived from the , 1885 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Some Australian Christmas Books, single work review
— Review of Boodgery Yabber Boodgery Gaws , 1884 single work prose ;
'They are not bright - they are not merry; only one can profess to furnish any original wit, while the majority seem like efforts to trade off juvenile or amateur work at a time when anything will "go down"... The Sydney Christmas Annual... contains a great many stories whose merit is not conspicuous... The Sydney Punch Almanac is perhaps the only book really redolent of and welcome to the season...'
(p. 7)
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