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Issue Details: First known date: 1889... vol. 25 no. 293 October 1889 of The Australian Journal est. 1865 The Australian Journal
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Contents

* Contents derived from the 1889 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
All About the Weather, single work prose
A street-car passenger is loudly taken to task by a fellow passenger to whom he addressed an innocent remark about the weather. Humour. (PB)
(p. 64)
This Was His Revenge, Mrs Alexander Fraser , single work short story
English romance. Friendship is betrayed when Alister Grant's closest friend elopes with the woman Alister was informally engaged to. Alister's threats of revenge are fulfilled when, dying, he rescues Ella's son from a hotel fire ... Slight; thinly realised. (PB)
(p. 66-67)
Treachery, George E. Loyau , single work short story
A London banker's son, already once indebted for gambling, is accused of theft from his father's office and banished to Australia. Finally his innocence is proven but his father's letter requesting him to return falls into the hands of a fellow shepherd and friend on the North Queensland sheep station where they work. His 'friend's impersonation of him fools all but the youth's betrothed - and he finally returns to her on his father's deathbed. (PB)
(p. 68-71)
Her Only Son, Amy Randolph , single work short story
Romance and a mother's views. A mother's opposition to her son's choice of a bride melts away when she overhears the heartless conversation of the girl she would have him marry. (PB)
(p. 72-73)
The Squatter's Sentence, W. W. , single work short story
A cruel squatter who rejected his first born son with a cruel lash and accidentally struck his young son a mortal blow while beating his wife is kidnapped by a small gang of bushrangers who have been robbing him from their cave hide-out. They demand justice from his for his elder son but he is shot by the mother of a worker he had killed years before. The evident sorrow of his elder and the death of his younger son warms his heart and the tyrant dies a man of feeling ... (PB)
(p. 73-80)
Emperor and Prisoner, single work prose
From Presburg, Russia, in the reign of Jospeh III, a tale of that king's discovery of the injustice done to an aged convict and his restitution including sentencing the officials who imprisoned him to gaol. Purportedly factually based. (PB)
(p. 81)
Story of a Will, single work short story
An impecunious young man from London spends time with a rich aged aunt, including courting her malicious pet monkey, in hopes of being remembered in her will. He is - and inherits the monkey. (PB).
(p. 81)
[Brother Gardner], Brother Gardner , single work prose
The club discusses the question of whether the white man is improving and answers it generally in the negative. (PB)
(p. 86)
[Brother Gardner], Brother Gardner , single work prose
Yjr club discusses the question of whether the white man is improving and answers it generally in the negative. (PB)
(p. 86)
Madge Heathcote's Revenge, A. E. Freeman , single work short story
Revenge for a youthful heart betrayed. Philadelphia gentleman Guy Travers trifles with the heart of Madge Heathcote one summer and abandons her. Recovering from brain fever and her mother's death she studies singing and as a brilliantly successful diva wins his heart - only to marry another. Light; predictable. (PB)
(p. 87-88)
A Few Hints to Bicycle Riders, single work prose
Humorous advice on the dangerous sport. (PB)
(p. 93)
Married Miseries, single work short story
A New York husband's sketchy account of his holiday at Saratoga with is wife and sister-in-law; and the ballroom upset which sent them home early. Humour (thin). (PB)
(p. 94-95)
The Mysterious Valise, single work short story
A stranger leaves a valise with a sentry at Hyde Park Gates while he goes for a swim. He does not return for months and by then the Guard has given it to Scotland Yard. They finally retrieve it but an accident and a clever detective reveal jewels in the false bottom. Some individuality to routine style. (PB).
(p. 95-97)
Poor Little Dick : An Annal of the Poor, single work short story
Tale of a widowed mother and son's decline through increasing poverty and ill-health to death. Pathos. Includes struggles to find work and finally theft to assist the dying mother. (PB)
(p. 97-102)
The Two Answers, single work short story
Temperance romance. A woman's refusal to marry the man she loved is changed once he hears of her early life ruined by her father's drinking and resolves to abstain. Schematic. (PB)
(p. 102-103)
Paula, single work short story
Romance and family reunion in New York. A rich girl's natural parents decide not to reveal themselves to her as she seems rich and happy. Her adoptive mother's fatal illness and their shaky financial state; the girl's engagement to an Englishman her father knows to be married from his days in Australia; and the interests of her struggling playwright suitor all combine to reveal to her who she truly is. Plot predictable though unusual in some details; light narrative with touches of sentiment. (PB)
(p. 104-107)
Shopping by Mail, single work short story
US romance of lovers reunited through an order for dresses made through the mail. Orders for some dresses for a younger sister's trousseau help a former suitor locate the woman he had loved but accidentally lost contact with years before when her father died and left her penniless to care for her sister. Pleasant tale of three sisters, and two weddings. (PB).
(p. 108-109)
Our Visitor, single work prose
A newspaper office is visited by an injured man who wishes to see the journalist who inserted a note about sobering a drunken man by pouring water down his back. (PB)
(p. 109)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Notes:
Includes second instalment of Mrs. Harriet Lewis' serial fiction, 'Beryl's Husband; Or, the Hawkhurst Inheritance', pp. 59-64.
Notes:
Includes the twelfth instalment of the novel 'Only Cecil; Or, the Secret of A Crime', pp. 82-86.
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