A series of biographical articles by various authors. The series appears in issues of Once a Month, a literary journal published in Melbourne by William Ingliss from 1884 to 1886. As well as critical biographies on Adam Lindsay Gordon, Henry Kendall, Marcus Clarke and Brunton Stephens, the series includes biographies on Alexander Stuart; James Service; John Colton; William Bede Dalley; Adye Douglas; Samuel Walker Griffith; Graham Berry; John William Downer; John Dunmore Lang; George Briscoe Kerferd; Charles Meredith; John Robertson; Duncan Gillies; Samuel Marsden.