Of this remarkable man not much is known since he left these shores, other than that a periodical was conducted by him in London under the title of “Redbeard’s Review,” which ran for about four years. After leaving Great Britain he conducted “The Eagle and the Serpent,” and “The Lion’s Paw,” as the necessary adjuncts to a wholesale publishing house in Chicago, U.S.A., the same being used as advertising mediums for the books sold by the firm. Desmond subsequently had a large tract of land (a ranch), which was stocked with deer, moose and venison-giving animals, in the vicinity of the large copper district of Kalispell, Montana, U.S. America. A couple of freelance Australian journalists who knew him in Sydney Desmond entertained right royally for a few weeks, going out on hunting and shooting parties. To many another person seeking his acquaintance Desmond held aloof, and to a great extent surrounded himself—“behind the veil” as it were—by a “mystery halo” and a sacrosanctness hard to penetrate. Desmond Redbeard was an all-round man in the business sense of the term, as is proved by reference to copies of “Hard Cash,” a journal of finance and politics, published in Sydney in the early nineties. Desmond was clever as an accountant, and his articles on “How Money Rules the World” were well watched by business men. This little journal, “Hard Cash,” had as a sub-title “The Standard Bearer,” and was printed during 1893-1894, and came out each week for forty issues or so. Up to No. 23 was privately circulated, and the price was 6d. a copy. “Hard Cash” later became the organ of the Active Service Brigade, also connected the late William McNamara, secretary of the first Socialist organisation formed in Australia; the late John A. Andrews, afterwards of “The Tocsin,” Melbourne; John Dwyer, happily “still on deck”; Captain Douglass, Peter Emslie, and many another. “Hard Cash” was printed at a secret press located in a cave near West’s Bush at Paddington, and during the latter part of its existence the then Minister for Justice, New South Wales (Slattery), had the myrmidons of the law eagerly but vainly trying to find Desmond, as it was well known that he was the editor. However, some of the prominent men of to-day stood trial in connection with the paper, for they were charged with two offences—libelling the Minister, and for selling the copies from the newsagencies they conducted. Thomas Routley (of the Board of Trade, New South Wales), William McNamara and S. A. Rosa (of “Truth” newspaper, Sydney) were then conducting newsagencies. They all received sentence. Later they were similarly charged of the little Sydney sheet called “Justice,” and were awarded and served six months’ sentences. Much of interest will be in the lot of those who may have the facilities to look through the files at the Mitchell Library of “The Bulletin,” “The New Order,” “Hard Cash,” “Justice,” and “The Socialist,” Sydney (the latter founded by Harry E. Holland and Tom Batho—the latter now, alas! After years of self-sacrifice as a teacher of revolutionary “Socialism,” is not getting along too well through approaching blindness).