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Issue Details: First known date: 1880... vol. 15 no. 178 March 1880 of The Australian Journal est. 1865 The Australian Journal
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Contents

* Contents derived from the , 1880 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
An Accommodating Duelist, single work prose
Anecdote concerning Weston, an English actor, who challenged a noble to a duel for slander. The nobleman surrendered on the field but Weston gave him a flesh wound to save his honour. (PB).
 (p. 344)
Willing To Give It Up, single work short story
A braggart is outsmarted by a clever workman's ruse. (PB)
 (p. 346)
Filius Nullus, Robert Criteur , single work short story
A poor foundling's loveless life and his death saving another's children from a boarding-house fire. (PB).
 (p. 347-348)
Running for Governor, Mark Twain , single work prose
On the newspaper vilifications which follow his decision to run for Governor of New York State. Humour. (PB)
 (p. 349)
The Window among the Willows, W. W. , single work short story
Sinclair is seeking a discharge from the force but becomes involved in the case of a dying friend whose daughter Minnie is secretly meeting a disreputable fellow detective. That detective's discovery that she will be almost penniless after her father's death, and Sinclair's discovery that the unpleasant Dr Annan has brutally and illegally carried out a post-mortem on his friend [graphic] causes further grief. (PB)
 (p. 350-355)
Met His Match, single work short story
The boxing Marquis of Granby is bested by his portrait painter, Francis Hayman, during a warm-up. (PB)
 (p. 356)
Forgiven Trespasses, single work short story
US tale of an old bachelor who meets the woman he had loved and quarrelled with in his youth through the advent of new neighbours - a Quaker widow and her children. Romance is rekindled. Includes a negro cook. (PB)
 (p. 356-359)
Actors' Blunders, single work prose
Two theatre anecdotes of lines mixed by factors in the English theatre. (PB)
 (p. 359)
Short of Wind, single work short story
Anecdote of a French horn player in an orchestra. (PB)
 (p. 363)
All About It, Margaret B. Harvery , single work short story
Tale of Quaker lovers who do not marry because of secterian differences - he becomes a western farmer and millionaire, she a doctor in the east. He proposes to her twice more - after his two wives die, but it is only after 20 years of successful practice that she is willing to accept him despite their religious differences. Unusual theme competently if slightly sentimentally told. (PB)
 (p. 364-365)
Blacking A Stove, single work short story
The unsightly results of a husband surprising his wife by blacking their kitchen stove. Humour. (PB)
 (p. 365)
The Smuggler's Daughter, single work short story
A New Yorker's holiday on the Jersey coast introduces him to a detective acquaintance who tells him of poor Alice Warren. She was driven mad by a detective's masquerade as her suitor and fiancee which resulted in both their deaths. Stormy tale. (PB)
 (p. 366-368)
Centennial Shoes, Augusta De Burna , single work short story

Sprightly US romance centreing around the Centennial Exhibition, and a pair of kid boots which carry the narrator to her meeting with Algernon Sidney Cooper, Englishman. She is already engaged but the comparisons between the two men, their treatment of her, their attitudes to America and to the Exhibition - particularly to the Women's Pavilion - eventually result in a broken engagement and a new one. Interesting, re: the depiction of the Exhibition as a background to romance, and an approving depiction of women's work (though still true to woman's role in the period). (PB)

 (p. 369-374)
Pure as a Lily, King Cole , single work short story
Romance of Sydney and Melbourne. Alice Mervyn is called away from her Sydney girls' school to see her dying father in Melbourne. She arrives too late and flees her step-mother's plot to marry her to an unscrupulous friend. She falls in love with and marries one of her rescuers, eventually winning his wealthy squatters father's approval. Slight. (PB).
 (p. 375-378)
In Print, I. Hebb , single work prose
On the need for spirit and ambition in aspiring writers, especially in the colony. Cites examples of established writers, e. g. Byron, Dickens, Disraeli. (PB)
 (p. 379-380)
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