Some Australian Christmas Books single work   review  
Issue Details: First known date: 1885... 1885 Some Australian Christmas Books
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'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...'

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  • A review of several books and periodicals, including Boodgery Yabber, The Sydney Christmas Annual (Sydney: Tortonville and Co., 1884?), The Australian Portrait Gallery No. 2 (Sydney: Southern Cross Publishing, 1884-1885), and The Sydney Punch Almanac (Sydney: 1884?).

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    y separately published work icon The Sydney Mail vol. 39 no. 1278 3 January 1885 Z1252723 1885 newspaper issue 1885 pg. 7
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