An advertisement for the Royal Victoria Theatre production of Augustin Daly's Under the Gaslight and John Palgrave Simpson's An Atrocious Criminal on 17 June 1868.
An advertisement for the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts production of Charles Thatcher's Life on the Goldfields on 18, 19, 20 and 22 June 1868. The production included Thatcher's 'new musical medley, "The Fight in the Assembly", written expressly for the occasion'.
A brief column noting the 17 June 1868 Royal Victoria Theatre production of Augustin Daly's Under the Gaslight and announcing the 'patronage and presence' of the Governor at the 19 June 1868 performance.
A collection of thoughts on disparate literary subjects. Barton includes references to William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, William Congreve's 'The Mourning Bride' and Edgar Allan Poe's 'A Dream within a Dream'. He also reflects on death scenes in literature and appears to offer a translation, in poetry form, of the death of the young wife in Honoré de Balzac's Le Medicin de Campagne [The Country Doctor] (1833). (Poem indexed separately.)
