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Issue Details: First known date: 1880... vol. 15 no. 185 October 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.
How To Go A-Courting?, single work prose
Advice on winning the approval of a girl's parents. (PB)
(p. 68)
The Jewel Robbery, C. M. Barrington , single work short story
Detective story and romance set in London and Yorkshire. A lawyer helps solve a theft in his friend's country house, clearing the name of his host's sister and proving the detective wrong. Pleasant, though resolution less satisfactory than the mystery. (PB)
(p. 69-75)
A Publisher's Blunder, single work prose
Anecdote of Murray, the London publisher, and how he nearly refused to publish the 'Life of Pitt'. (PB)
(p. 75)
The Athelons, Janet Carroll , single work short story
A noble English family own a Murray River station to which the son is returning with a friend after two years abroad. The son falls in love with his sister's beautiful companion and the sister with her brother's friend. But a mystery must first be solved involving the companion's long lost sister and the friend's wife. Begins better than it ends. (PB)
(p. 75-78)
Jim's Smart Trick, Mary Kyle Dallas , single work short story
An April-fool's joke precipitates a romance between a bachelor of 50 and his mature neighbour, thereby doing his mischievous nephews out of his inheritance. (PB)
(p. 78-79)
Presence of Mind, single work prose
Sir James Thornhill is saved from falling off the scaffold from which he painted St Paul's cupola by an assistant deliberately painting over his work. (PB)
(p. 79)
La Serinissima : A Tale of Venice, single work short story
A rash young Englishman decrying the theft of a lace handkerchief, is shown the power of Venice's secret police sitting in masked tribunal and with the thief executed. Historical adventure, chiefly atmospheric. (PB)
(p. 80-81)
Carmela, single work short story
Tragedy of lovers crossed by fate near the Austro-Italian border in 1866. A brigand father accidentally kills his daughter's suitor after saving his life earlier. Good opera plot; thin but dramatic. (PB)
(p. 81-82)
A Striking Resemblance, single work prose humour
Two brothers practicing law in the same town prove almost indistinguishable. Humour. (PB)
(p. 83)
Miss Hartley's Story, M. B. , single work short story
Two Australian girls beg a story from Miss Hartley who tells them a ghostly murder story from her youth in England. A stay at a country cottage is shortended by her vision of a murder, and the owner's enquiries into the whereabouts of his former tenants reveal a murder and 10 years unfounded blackmail. Structurally irrelevant, Australian introduction; story intricate. (PB)
(p. 84-90)
The Blood of the Grape, Waif Wander , single work short story detective (p. 90-95)
Mabel's Lovers: A Heart Sketch., Sylvanus Cobb (Jnr) , single work short story
Mabel's guardian transfers the love he once felt for her mother to her ward, resolving never to tell. She has a rich young suitor for several years but just as the guardian is about to leave her to his rival, he discovers that she loves him instead. Competent, predictable. (PB)
(p. 95-97)
A Story of Witchcraft, single work short story
A story of a judge of the King's Bench and his evidence clearing an old woman from a charge of witchcraft. Plain. (PB)
(p. 100-101)
The Curate's Table, single work short story
A poor English curate orders a meal for 12 as a light revenge on the bishop who bade him order a meal at a nearby inn without inviting him to join in - the bishop having 12 titles. Slight interest. (PB)
(p. 101)
Charles Summers, Sculptor, James Parton , single work short story biography
Summers was born in England, attained success there, lived for a time in Australia and executed many large works for the Victorian government including statues of royalty outside the public library. He died at 51 from overwork. Narrative interesting and lively sketch in general. (PB)
(p. 103)
He Never Committed Himself, single work prose
Brief anecdote of a Portsmouth Captain's reticense - here, in relation to the price of pigeons. (PB)
(p. 105)
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