Alexander Sutherland (1852–1902) was a Scottish-Australian educator, writer and philosopher. Sutherland did a large amount of literary work. He was responsible for the first volume only of Victoria and its Metropolis, published in 1888, an interesting history of the first 50 years of the state of Victoria. In 1890 he published , the cultured verse of an experienced literary man, but his most important book was , which appeared in 1898 in two volumes.George Sutherland (1855–1905), a writer, was born in Scotland. He was taken to Australia in 1864 and graduated from the University of Melbourne. After teaching for some time he took up journalism and worked for the South Australian Register from 1881 to 1902, after which he joined the Melbourne Age. His works include: (1880), (1886), (1898) and (1901). With his brother, Alexander Sutherland, he wrote (1894), which attained a sale of 120,000 copies.
