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Issue Details: First known date: 1859... 13 April 1859 of My Note Book est. 1856 My Note Book
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* Contents derived from the , 1859 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Social, single work column
Considering the paucity of genuine 'periodical literature' in the colonies, the writer for My Note Book advances the argument that because 'English books are now sold in Melbourne at a very trifling advance on home prices', the book-buying colonial public prefers to purchase items from 'home'. This then forces 'the general absorption of the ltierary talent of the colony into the staff of the various newspapers'. The writer concludes: 'Should these obstacles and difficulties even [sic] be surmounted, it is more than probable that with the men of ability already amongst us, the literature of Australia may yet be able to take a respectable place beside that of much older countries.'
 (p. 965)
Frank Fowler, single work review
— Review of Southern Lights and Shadows : Being Brief Notes of the Three Years' Experience of Social, Literary, and Political Life in Australia Frank Fowler , 1859 single work prose ; (p. 966)
The Sylphsi"Reason is wrong sometimes; its beams", Beranger , C. F. A. (translator), single work poetry (p. 969)
Sistersi"Within a shadowy chamber", Cicala (fl. 1858-1859) , single work poetry (p. 969)
Ophelia : A Dirgei"Softly to the earth restore", C. W. (fl. 1858-1859) , single work poetry (p. 969)
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