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Issue Details: First known date: 1881... vol. 16 no. 190 March 1881 of The Australian Journal est. 1865 The Australian Journal
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Contents

* Contents derived from the 1881 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
The New Housekeeper, James B. Marshall , single work short story romance
Humorous tale of a masculine household deserted by its elderly housekeeper and servants. The younger brother mistakes a visiting family friend and heiress for a new maid and she carries on the masquerade until they fall in love ... Lively US romance fueled with comic misunderstandings. (PB)
(p. 346-353)
Not Fond of Work, single work prose
Anecdote of a five year-old's wisdom, advising his mother to marry again rather than look to him for support if his father died. (PB)
(p. 354)
A Little Love Story, Mary Kyle Dallas , single work short story romance
US romance. Adolescents of different social status are separated when their parents discover their engagement but they are faithful to each other. They meet again during the Civil War, she a nurse and he a soldier dying of fever. (PB)
(p. 355)
Two Visits from a Gipsy, Frances E. Wadleigh , single work short story
A gipsy's predictions of a young man's future during a picnic nearly destroys his reputation. Only the woman he loves believes in him until a year later he reveals the gipsy to have been bribed by his rival. Pleasantly unremarkable. (PB)
(p. 356-358)
Fortune's Richest Gift, Mary E. Moffat , single work short story
An orphan is hired as lady's companion to the wealthy Mr Lancaster's mother. The arrival of his pretty ward reveals to her that she loves him and a horse accident prompts him to propose. Slight romance. (PB)
(p. 359-360)
A Dying Child's Last Wish, single work prose
A pupil at a north-west Melbourne school dies comforted by the receipt of school merit cards. (PB)
(p. 360)
Foundered, single work prose
The battle between an ocean steamer and a gale. Vivid. (PB)
(p. 360-361)
The Dove's Tower, single work short story
A newly-married couple on honeymoon in County Kerry, Ireland, find a carrier-pigeon which becomes their own. Eventually it saves the wife when she is trapped in an old tower ... Light, occasionally reflective and improbable romance. (PB)
(p. 361-362)
The Dove in the Eagle's Nest, C. M. Barrington , single work short story
Winter in Picardy, France, in 1870 and a group of German officers bivouack in a French chateau. Captain Max von Rosenheim is attracted to a portrait and when he returns wounded to the chateau, falls in love with the living image (daughter of the original subject). She is already engaged to her cousin and is a patriot - but love and the secret of her birth make all things possible. Well-written and constructed romance. (PB)
(p. 363-367)
Kate Elliot's Last Season, L. R. Munro , single work short story
A poor but beautiful belle at Newport USA becomes engaged to a rich suitor when she discovers her equally poor but true love is courting an heiress. She is drowned while bathing, and he marries his heiress. Patchy but lively and light touch of cynicism. (PB)
(p. 368-369)
Ida's Revenge : A Legend of the Palazzetto, Mary Kyle Dallas , single work short story
A Venetian palace is the scene for an Italian peasant girls' revenge on an unfaithful English artist and his newly married wife. (PB)
(p. 369-370)
Club-Law, J. T. P. O'Meara , single work short story
When a bargeman is caught stealing from a storeowner in the township of Wantamboon, between Bourke and Wilcannia, he is summarily punished rather than incur the expenses of a trial. Takes place in December 1879 when the Darling is in flood and an Adelaide steamer and barge are collecting wool bales as cargo. Strong current of authentic reminiscence. (PB)
(p. 371-372)
The Scout's Last Shot, single work short story
A frontier scout kills nine Indians before they can surround and kill him where his horse lies dead. Brief. (PB)
(p. 372)
A Costly Beverage, single work prose
A ship-owner's tale of the cost of the Jamaica rum he serves one of his crews is jauntily dealt with . Humorous anecdote. (PB)
(p. 372)
The Innocent for the Guilty, Hart Ayrault , single work short story
Bizarre tale of a French soldier who stops at a country inn, is attracted to the keeper's step-daughter, Suzanne, and cuts off the finger of a thief attempting to rob him during the night. On his arrival home he finds his impoverished father is also missing a finger and a trial for attempted murder follows. His testimony, the sacrifice of his own finger and Suzanne's testimony free his father. He parts from Suzanne to die in Africa and she to be faithful until her death. Strange; patchy. (PB)
(p. 373-375)
A Staggering Argument, single work short story
Anecdote of a drunk's interruption of Robert K. Ptter's temperance lecture. Probably US humour. (PB)
(p. 375)
Circumstances Alter Cases, single work prose
A Union soldier dies when he misquotes a countersign password in a drunken joke during the Civil War. (PB)
(p. 375)
Four Scenes in a Child's Life, Effie Hamilton , single work short story
Episodic impressionistic narrative of a child's quarrel with her mother; her mother's death; removal to an aunt's care; and death in hospital from diptheria. Vivid scene of childhood abandonment albeit sentimental. (PB)
(p. 376)
Dropping into Poetry : The Exchange Editor Does it Naturally, single work short story
An unliterary newspaper editor's suggestions for finishing lines to a young lady's verses are finally rejected. Bathetic humour. (PB)
(p. 376-377)
The First Offence, single work short story
A kindly businessman regrets his harsh words to a clerk late to work because he has just become a father - and gives him a £100 cheque. Business and feelings combined. (PB)
(p. 377)

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