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Issue Details: First known date: 1877... vol. 13 no. 150 November 1877 of The Australian Journal est. 1865 The Australian Journal
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* Contents derived from the 1877 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Yes or No, M. K. D. , single work short story
A good deed reveals the true character of young Kitty Parker's suitor - and she refuses his proposal. Light tale with moral undertone (PB).
 (p. 120)
The Forged Cheque, VIC) H. B. (Echuca , single work short story detective
A Melbourne clerk forges a bank cheque and when it is detected blames a fellow clerk whom he dislikes. (PB).
 (p. 121-123)
A Story of France, A. T. W. , single work short story romance
Romance begun in Versailles under Louis XVI in 1775 and ending with the Revolution. An heiress' love for a poor clerk is frustrated by her scheming step-mother. (PB).
 (p. 124-131)
Eve's Mistake, M. K. D. , single work short story
A happy wife mending her husband's coat discovers a package of letters which she reads. Believing him to be having an affair she procures what she believes to be rat poison and takes it. (PB).
 (p. 131-132)
Little Barbara, A. S. , single work short story
Fannie Pleasaunton discovers the sick poverty-stricken country girl she nurses loves and was loved by Fannie's fiancee. She reveals to him the girl's situation and renounces their engagement ... Moral tale of true love rewarded. (PB)
 (p. 132-133)
Janet, Thomas Bailey Clegg , single work short story
A foundling rescued from a shipwreck grows up in a fishing village but runs away with a city man just before she marries a good strong fisherman. A few years later she returns to die, leaving her child to Bill. But further tragedy follows ... well-written and at times moving first-person narrative from a rough, honest, sailor persona. Avoids the merely sentimental. (PB)
 (p. 134-136)
Harold Clifton's Secret, G. M. , single work short story
A Melbourne lawyer and his daughter Adelaide return to Sunbury where they meet a neighbouring landowner Harold Clifton. He falls in love with Adelaide and they are to be married until a scorned suitor reveals the secret that Clifton's father was a criminal in the USA ... Some promise but an overly sentimental ending (PB).
 (p. 137-141)
The Selector of the Corra, W. W. , single work short story
A poor villainous selector murders his rival who pegs out the land before him - but a trooper's detective work and his victim's ghost find him out. (PB)
 (p. 141-147)
Wreck in a Woman's Life, E. L. , single work short story
Young Violet Dale is married to a loving 60 year-old doctor when - unaware - she falls in love and her life changes. (PB).
 (p. 147-148)
Mary Ray, G. Herbert , single work short story
An orphan gives up her suitor to care for her two younger sisters and her intellectually disabled brother, but years later it appears she was not completely forgotten. (PB)
 (p. 149)
More Than One Way to Retreat, single work prose
Collection of thoughts, anecdotes and vignettes on military 'retreats'. (PB).
 (p. 149-150)
A Reporter's Ride, single work prose
Satiric account of a wild ride with a Detroit butcher intent on injuring carriages and taking lives. (PB).
 (p. 150)
Truth, single work essay
Adhere to truth but do so pleasingly. (PB).
 (p. 150)
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Notes:
Includes the second instalment of 'Templeside; Or, Which Shall Be Heir?', pp. 109-119.
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