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419:(which it resembles on the scale of a Peruvian shrunken head), has survived its first year, a period during which most of its kind in Australia generally expire. The current issue, on the contrary, is very much alive, with short stories, humor, critical reviews of paintings, plays, books and films, and a ferocious attack on contemporary values in Australian poetry."
342:'s notes of metropolitan life The writing is amusing, provoking, intelligent and at times almost brilliant. The magazine adopts no pretentious poses, grinds no political axes, and is unselfconciously Australian in its flavor. There are some refreshing sections of literary, art; theatrical and film criticism."
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167:. Discharged convict John Davies also wrote for the paper in 1842-3, and despite Judge Willis' harsh treatment of Arden, commended him; "We like him the better that he has never administered one kind of justice to the rich and another kind to the poor." The Presbyterian clergyman
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while Arden was absent but next year retired from the staff and entered politics, becoming mayor in 1849. Though Arden was a competent writer, his youth and indiscretion led him to criticise the administration of
Melbourne's first police magistrate
218:, deliberately archaic and with a correspondingly vintage copperplate-style masthead, was revived for a literary quarterly in 1952. However, the editorial of the inaugural issue is at odds with the connection to the original publication so named;
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typeface. Its illustrations throughout were drawn in pen, with spot colour for the cover, by
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was increased in size and it appeared semi-weekly. From May–June 1842 Augustus Greeves edited the
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because we rather like our irascible old predecessor,
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