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The Sydney Monitor's correspondent decries the claims of the Sydney Herald in relation to colonial literary publications. The Monitor's correspondent says: 'It is quite ridiculous to tell the people here, that "works of magnitude" are published in England regarding New South Wales; and that "a large portion of the reading public" are interested in these works'.
The correspondent continues: 'With the exception of a few London merchants, or people who have relations or correspondents here, the Colony is little known or thought of in England, except as Botany Bay ; a name which sticks to it like a burr, and will stick to it for many a long year.'
In the correspondent's opinion, Cunningham's Two Years in New South Wales is 'the only readable work which has been published in this Colony'.
