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Issue Details: First known date: 1870... vol. 6 no. 66 November 1870 of The Australian Journal est. 1865 The Australian Journal
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Notes

  • Includes an instalment of Theresa Tasmania's novella Clari, pp.147-150.
  • Includes the ninth instalment of Leon Lewis' 'The Trapper's Last Trail', pp. 138-145.
  • Includes ninth instalment of Marcus Clarke's serial fiction 'His Natural Life', pp. 121-130.
  • Includes the first instalement of serial fiction 'The Unlucky Investment', pp. 162-165.

Contents

* Contents derived from the 1870 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Bush Lyrics : No. II : Camped by the Creeki"All day a strong sun has been drinking", Henry Kendall , single work poetry (p. 130)
Note: With title: 'Bush Lyrics : No. II : Camped by the Creek'
Blackballed by the Bachelors, A Would-Be Saunterer , single work short story
A young country doctor in England is blackballed from joining the gentleman's cricket club, but they are repaid by the heiress who becomes his wife. (PB)
 (p. 131-134)
Miss Pelham's Lovers, single work short story
A judge decides between two suitors for his daughter's hand by their treatment of a poor Irishwoman to whom they owe money. (PB)
 (p. 136)
The Spider and the Fly, Waif Wander , single work short story satire
On the fifty female applicants for a position of trust and the man who interviewed them at a Melbourne hotel. (PB)
 (p. 145-147)
Finding a Substitute, H. K. , single work short story
On the diggings near Ballarat in 1857, a police officer loses a prisoner between the lock-up and the court. He persuades another to take his place. (PB)
 (p. 146)
Adventures among the Arabs, Leon (Colonel) Lafitte , single work short story adventure
A tale of two meetings with an American sheik in the Syrian desert. The American narrator hears of his exile from his native land following two duels in Virginia; visits his sister and his beloved there; and is saved by the sheik during a fierce desert battle after his return. Very dramatic, perhaps factually based. (PB)
 (p. 150-152)
The Broken Vase, J. Clark , single work short story
A widow meets her second husband through her maid's ruse to cover up a breakage caused while dusting. (PB)
 (p. 153)
The Last Scene, W. W. , single work short story
A bigmaist, thief and murderer is discovered in an heiress' disguise in the same house as a woman he had falsely married years before in England. Disguise and flirtation interesting. (PB)
 (p. 154-159)
A Bottle of Wine, M. K. D. , single work short story
An old man narrates the tale of his youth to three young men who ask him to share a drink; of his motherless wild childhood and the death of his fiancee through his drunkenness. A well told moral tale - sentiment is not overwhelming. (PB)
 (p. 170-171)
A Church Parade in India, single work prose
Reflections on preparations for an army church parade on a Sunday in India - the contrast between lives of battle in a foreign land and the refreshment of the service. (PB)
 (p. 171)
The Cobbler of Messina, single work short story
Tale, apparently factual, of a humble workman in Messina, Sicily, who became a vigilante, assassinating local criminals etc. (PB)
 (p. 175)
How I Planted My Sister, Alice Tredgold , single work prose
The narrator's attempts to assist her younger sister to grow during her childhood in Jamaica. (PB)
 (p. 176)
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