Literary material in this issue outside AustLit scope:
Advertisement for: Performance on 13 January 1838 of: 'the Burlesque Nautical Burletta, called Billy Taylor, or, The Gay Young Fellow', [John Baldwin Buckstone,1829] and 'the grand Eastern Romantic Spectacle, in three Acts, called Aladdin, or, The Wonderful Lamp ', [1810]
An advertisement for various books by English writers for sale. The list includes novels, magazines and newspapers, works of biography and non-fiction.
Review and plot outline of an operatic comedy performed at the Theatre Royal, Sydney on 8 January 1838.