 Settling again in Melbourne, Strong did some tutoring and lecturing, and published a volume of verse, "Sonnets and Songs" (1905).In 1910 Strong was president of the Literature Society of Melbourne and his presidential address, 'Nature in Meredith and Wordsworth', was printed as a pamphlet in that year.Strong was a long-term literary critic for the "Herald" newspaper and in 1911 republished some of his earlier writings for this journal under the title of "Peradventure, A Book of Essays in Literary Criticism".