''The Critic'' was an

Adelaide Adelaide ( ) is the capital city of South Australia, the state's largest city and the fifth-most populous city in Australia. "Adelaide" may refer to either Greater Adelaide (including the Adelaide Hills) or the Adelaide city centre. The dem ...

weekly magazine that ran from 1897 to 1924. It is remembered as the paper in which

C. J. Dennis Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis (7 September 1876 – 22 June 1938), better known as C. J. Dennis, was an Australian poet and journalist known for his best-selling verse novel ''The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke'' (1915). Alongside ...

began his literary career, and was later its editor.

History

The first issue was published 25 September 1897, of 18 pages price 6d. The first two pages consisted of advertisements and the rest summaries of the week's news, a gossip page, sports, theatre reviews, and a page devoted to mining investment and a full page editorial cartoon by

Amb Dyson Ambrose Dyson (1876 – 4 June 1913), often known as Amb Dyson was an Australian illustrator and political cartoonist, born at Alfredton, near Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, the son of George Dyson, then a hawker and later a mining engineer, an ...

. The publishers' offices were in 71, Brookman's Building, Grenfell Street, Adelaide. The last issue, subtitled "The Federal Weekly" was published 28 May 1924. Its head office was at 110 Franklin Street, Adelaide. It was of 26 pages and priced at 6d. On page 1 was an announcement that the next issue was to be on sale 5 June priced 4d. This turned out to be a new weekly "Gossip", and an attempt to recover the fortunes of a style of newspaper, described by a contemporary as a "society paper", which had been largely displaced by the larger dailies, which had their own gossip and society pages, sports, theatre and investment pages at a lower price. Editors included C. J. Dennis c. 1904, succeeded in 1905 by

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.Conrad Constantine Eitel (c. August 1880 – May 1947), who was born in Hong Kong to a naturalised German-born father (a minister and lecturer at University of Adelaide) and English mother née Eaton, was later (August 1911) appointed secretary for

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's Antarctic Expedition, enlisted in 1914, two days after war was declared, joined the Expeditionary Force (a six month contract) and embarked for

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on 19 August 1914. He applied for a commission, but was barred from service on account of his German parentage. He changed his name to Lionel Lambert Eaton and enlisted in August 1915. He was discharged in February 1916 on the grounds of giving a false answer in his application.

Digitization

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are available on-line and accessible via

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History

Digitization

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