The Month : a literary and critical journal

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N 059.44 MON
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Sydney : J.R. Clarke, 1857-
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Volume 2 (1859)
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Contents

THE SUPPORT OF LETTERS IN AUSTRALIA. THE MONTH. 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5
OUMBRE. 5
ARTHUR OWEN. AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13
HE’S COMING HAME. 13
THE WANDERINGS OF BRAMBLES, OF BRAMBLETREE. 14 , 15 , 16 , 17
THE OPENING SCENE AND THE SOLILOQUY FROM SCHILLER’S FIESCO. 18 , 19 , 20
No title 22
THE RED HAND. 23 , 24
QUARTZ AND GOLD. 25 , 26 , 27
THE LAND QUESTION. 28 , 29 , 30 , 31 , 32 , 33 , 34
SCHOOL EXAMINATIONS DURING THE MONTH. 34
GREEK MYTHS IN ENGLISH METRES. 35
The Aborigines of Australia. 36
THE HARMONIOUS SOUL. [A FRAGMENT FROM GERMAN.] 37 , 38
AN HOUR’S AMUSEMENT WITH A LUMP OF SUGAR. 39 , 40 , 41 , 42 , 43 , 44 , 45 , 46 , 47
LORD MAMMON. 47
THE WORLD OF BOOKS. GERMAN LITERATURE. 48 , 49 , 50
REVIEWS. 51 , 52 , 53 , 54 , 55 , 56 , 57
HOME CHIMES. 57
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC SUMMARY. 58
No title 60
THE MONTH. THE SURVEY DEPARTMENT OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 61 , 62 , 63 , 64 , 65 , 66 , 67 , 68 , 69
A SONG. 69
ARTHUR OWEN. AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 70 , 71 , 72 , 73 , 74
A DREAM UPON A SUNSHINY DAY. 74
COSAS DE ESPANA; OR, RANDOM NOTES ON SPAIN. 75 , 76 , 77 , 78 , 79 , 80 , 81 , 82 , 83
SONNETS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS. 84 , 85 , 86 , 87
QUARTZ AND GOLD. 88 , 89 , 90
TALES AND SKETCHES OF VILLAGE LIFE IN IRELAND. NO. 1. ROSE KELLY; OR THE WHITE ROSE BUSH. 91 , 92 , 93 , 94 , 95 , 96 , 97 , 98
YE LOGG OF A DEFEATED CANDIDATE. 99 , 100 , 101 , 102 , 103 , 104
THE WORLD OF BOOKS. 105 , 106 , 107 , 108
REVIEWS. 109 , 110 , 111 , 112 , 113 , 114 , 115 , 116
AUSTRALIAN ALMANACS. 116 , 117
OUR PORTRAIT GALLERY. 118 , 119
THE MONTH. 120
TO CONTRIBUTORS. 120
THE MONTH ADVERTISER. 121 , 122 , 123 , 124
THE MONTH. POPULAR SCIENCE. 125 , 126 , 127 , 128 , 129 , 130 , 131 , 132
A CORONAL. 132
TO THE MALEVOLI. 132
QUARTZ AND GOLD. 133 , 134 , 135
LIFE AND LOVE. 136 , 137 , 138 , 139 , 140 , 141
ARTHUR OWEN. AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 142 , 143 , 144 , 145 , 146 , 147 , 148 , 149
TELL ME, WHERE IS FANCY BRED? 149
TALES AND SKETCHES OF VILLAGE LIFE IN IRELAND. NO. II.—MABEL BRADY; OR, THE SCHOOL-MISTRESS. 150 , 151 , 152 , 153 , 154 , 155
SYDNEY AND ITS SUBURBS. 156
No title 158
Mr. Plunkett's Dismissal. 159
THE WORLD OF BOOKS, 160 , 161 , 162 , 163 , 164 , 165 , 166
REVIEWS. 167 , 168 , 169 , 170
POSTSCRIPT. 171 , 172 , 173 , 174
THE MONTH. THE STUDENTS OF LIFE. 175 , 176 , 177 , 178 , 179 , 180 , 181 , 182
BUSH LIFE IN AUSTRALIA. 183 , 184 , 185 , 186 , 187 , 188 , 189
POPULAR SCIENCE. CLIMATOLOGY.-SECOND ARTICLE. 190 , 191 , 192
ARTHUR OWEN. AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 193 , 194 , 195 , 196 , 197 , 198 , 199 , 200 , 201 , 202
HISTORICAL SKETCHES. NO. I. RICHARD CROMWELL. 203 , 204 , 205 , 206 , 207 , 208 , 209
A SONG. 209
STRAY THOUGHTS IN SUNSHINE. 210 , 211
TALES AND SKETCHES OF VILLAGE LIFE IN IRELAND. NO. II.-MABEL BRADY; OR, THE SCHOOL-MISTRESS. 212 , 213 , 214 , 215 , 216
QUARTZ AND GOLD. 216
SYDNEY AND ITS SUBUKBS. NO. VII.—THE BARRACKS AND THE BALL. 217 , 218
THE WORLD OF BOOKS. 219 , 220 , 221 , 222
THE MONTH. THE STUDENTS OF LIFE. 223 , 224 , 225 , 226 , 227 , 228 , 229 , 230
SONG—WHAT IS MUSIC? 230 , 231
QUARTZ AND GOLD. 232 , 233 , 234 , 235 , 236 , 237
“DEATH IS TO US CHANGE NOT CONSUMMATION.” 237
CHARLES WOTTON: OR, BUSH LIFE IN AUSTRALIA. 238 , 239 , 240 , 241 , 242 , 243 , 244 , 245 , 246
THE ISLE OF VINES: A FAIRY TALE FOR OLD AND YOUNG. 247 , 248 , 249 , 250 , 251 , 252 , 253 , 254 , 255 , 256 , 257 , 258 , 259 , 260 , 261
THE WORLD OF BOOKS. 262 , 263
MR. FRANK FOWLER’S LECTURE ON DOUGLAS JERROLD. 264 , 265 , 266 , 267 , 268 , 269 , 270
THE MONTH. THE STUDENTS OF LIFE. 271 , 272 , 273 , 274 , 275 , 276 , 277 , 278 , 279 , 280
THE INDIAN MASSACRES. 280
ARTHUR OWEN. AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 281 , 282 , 283 , 284 , 285 , 286 , 287 , 288
CHARLES WOTTON: OR, BUSH LIFE IN AUSTRALIA. 289 , 290 , 291 , 292 , 293 , 294 , 295 , 296 , 297
CALIFORNIAN ODE ON SPRING. 297
QUARTZ AND GOLD. 298 , 299 , 300 , 301 , 302
THE SYDNEY GRAMMAR SCHOOL. 303 , 304 , 305 , 306 , 307 , 308 , 309 , 310
THE WORLD OF BOOKS 311 , 312 , 313 , 314 , 315 , 316
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC SUMMARY. MISKA HAUSER’S FAREWELL CONCERT. 317 , 318

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THE SUPPORT OF LETTERS IN AUSTRALIA.  

THE MONTH.  

There is legend popular in England that all the waiters in Australian  

Cafes—half the breakers of stones on Australian roads,—*and one-third of  

the peripatetic vendors of Australian fruit,—-are “ men” from Oxford and  

Cambridge. “ How jolly,” said stone-mason of some intelligence on  

board the ship in which we made our journey to Port Jackson, “ how jolly  

to be able to bless the eyes of parson for bringing damp screw of to-  

bacco ”  

Experience plays the very Vandal with romance, and residence of  

two years in New South Wales has proved to us that B.A. and XXX are  

not one whit more closely connected in this community than they are in  

the old world our friend of square and chisel has frequented every tap-  

room in the city without stumbling over senior wrangler; we never met  

man breaking stones who could crack XiOos and the whole of the apple  

sellers with whom we have come in contact have been consistently igno-  

rant of the pippins of the Hesperides and the prize russet of Paris.  

There is some modicum of truth, however, at the centre of all fiction; —  

and these strange notions respecting the position of men of education in  

Australia have, unfortunately, rather broader basis of reality than, per-  

haps, even our colonial readers may imagine. The purport of this article  

is to point out the reason of this, and-—Quixotic as the position may ap-  

pear—to suggest remedy.  

Before proceeding upon this task, however, it is necessary that one pre-  

mise should be admitted:—that in any country, old or new, the man of  

education has the same claim upon the state as the skilled or unskilled  

laborer. We might, perhaps, without taking too high or transcendental  

standpoint, maintain that the mind which projects deserves even more of  

community than the hand which constructs, inasmuch as the scope and  

function of the one have glorious immunity from limitation, while the  

mere mechanism of the other, however useful and even honorable in itself,  

is necessarily bounded in its nature and transient in its endurance.  

Corinthian column may moulder into dust, and the labor of hundred  

work-men be scattered to the winds: the Idea of Callimachus, the designer  

of the order, will endure for ever, and furnish employment to myriads of  

future quarriers and masons. But we have no inclination to push this  

point too far—to work it out even to its just limits. We simply demand  

the very fair admission that the man of education has as great right to  

clamor for employment and protest against starvation, as he whose power  

chiefly consists in strong wrist and mastery of the hatchet.  

VOL. 11.  

 

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