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Issue Details: First known date: 1879... vol. 15 no. 174 November 1879 of The Australian Journal est. 1865 The Australian Journal
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Contents

* Contents derived from the , 1879 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
The Shaft in Wild Gully, W. W. , single work short story
A loyal wife journeys on foot to join her husband prospecting in the Victorian ranges. He is planning to marry a rich man's daughter and murders her with his pick and buries her in the mine. Another man had met her before she joined her husband and he asks where she is as the miner is about to marry. All is revealed. (PB)
 (p. 122-126)
A Shower of Rain, Charlotte M. Stanley , single work short story
A man's chivalry in helping a woman across a puddle costs him his pocket-book but restores to him the woman he thought had married another. Colonial romance. Slight. (PB)
 (p. 127-128)
Anecdote of Sir William Stains, single work prose
Showing how the Lord Mayor, once a bricklayer, outfaces the sneers of a titled guest at a city banquet. (PB)
 (p. 128)
The Rose, J. R. L. , single work short story
A man breaks his engagement when his fiancee teasingly refuses to tell him who gave her the beautiful rose she wears. Smug exemplary tale to women not to annoy their lovers - for she never married though he did. (PB)
 (p. 129)
A Few Varieties on Widowhood, single work short story
Three widows' statements of marriage, each determined to marry again. Three widowers, each determined not to. (PB)
 (p. 129)
Mrs. Gooch's Tongue, M. K. D. , single work short story
A businessman cures his wife's gossiping by telling her he has murdered a grocer he quarrelled with - and she obligingly spreads the tale, causing his arrest. Worn humour. (PB)
 (p. 130-131)
Larry's Choice, S. C. , single work short story
An Irish soldier in Paris, formerly on the staff of Marshal MacDonald, falls in love with his new washerwoman, herself the orphan of a soldier. They marry and live happily in Ireland, Napoleon having given the bride away. Semi-historical romance. (PB)
 (p. 131-132)
Training up a Boy, M. Quad , single work prose
Suggestions for bringing up a boy by thrashings and denial. Humour, irony. (PB)
 (p. 132)
The Legend of the Ivy, single work short story
German legend of a lady who forces her lover to wait until his heart turns to stone and he makes her wait until she dies. The new plant - ivy - grew out of her grave, creeping its faithful way to his castle. (PB)
 (p. 133)
Mr Poke's Neighbour, single work short story
Prying Mr Poke determines to discover what his inventor-neighbour is working on. The inventor takes his revenge by asking Mr Poke to be the living test of his new patent cremator. Humour. (PB)
 (p. 134)
A Persuasive Parent, single work prose
A tall colonel explains to his shorter neighbour how he married off all eleven daughters in two years - with the persuasion of a cocked pistol. Humour. (PB)
 (p. 135)
Holding a Dog with His Eye, single work prose
Judge Cooley decides to outface a bulldog in order to collect a bill - but comes off a poor second. (PB)
 (p. 136)
My Heart is Right!, single work prose
An illiterate wife has the truest education - of the heart. Sententiously sweet. (PB)
 (p. 136)
His Only Petty Theft, single work short story
A boy decides to steal a neighbour's melon. Inconclusive. (PB)
 (p. 136)
Poets and Poetry, single work prose
Advises aspiring poets to strive first to be understood and to study A. L. Gordon. (PB)
 (p. 136)
Wholly Thine, Henry H. Torr , single work short story
A young Melbourne lawyer falls in love with a beautiful, dashing heiress during a holiday at Sorrento but finds she is already engaged when he proposes. Five years later, now a successful man wary of women, they meet again in Melbourne and he is convinced she is not the coquette he thought. Well-written though the concluding paragraphs (about a runaway carriage) are confusing (and the themes suspect). (PB)
 (p. 137-140)
Minding a Treasure, single work short story
A bachelor's misadventures minding his sister's baby; includes the purchase of milk and an encounter with dainty Harriet Ellis. Probably US. Predictable but better than some of the genre. (PB)
 (p. 140-141)
A Curious Circumstance, Sylvanus Cobb (Jnr) , single work short story
Probably US; an army captain's account of his colonel's premonition of the one time he would be wounded in battle. Psychic curiosity. (PB)
 (p. 142-143)
A True Old Love Story, single work short story
Tale of English lovers in Oxfordshire in 1717 killed by lightning on the eve of their wedding - and immortalised in verse by Lady Mary Wortley Montague. Historical. (PB)
 (p. 143)
A Dear Little Kitten, single work short story
A newly-married wife's wish for a kitten is soon met by relatives' kindness - several times. Humour. (PB)
 (p. 144)
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