 The journal became the most successful literary magazine of the time, supposedly found "in every club, hotel and reading-room throughout Australasia".Charles Nalder Baeyertz was born on 15 December 1866 in Richmond, Victoria.His father, Charles Bayertz, was an Anglican bank manager for the National Bank of Australasia and his mother was Emilia Baeyertz, a Welsh-Jewish woman who had been disowned by her family for marrying outside her religion.