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Issue Details: First known date: 1884... vol. 20 no. 235 December 1884 of The Australian Journal est. 1865 The Australian Journal
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Contents

* Contents derived from the 1884 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
A Memory of New Year's Eve, single work short story
A father who had spurned his daughter for marrying against his wishes is contrite and seeks her out with her sick child and they are reunited. Brief; religious theme. (PB)
(p. 182)
A Christmas Sheaf, M. L. (Mrs) Rayne , single work short story
Neighbouring houses, one rich one poor, are both made happy when the birth of twins and a doctor's hint causes them to share respective riches. Moral tone but avoids over-sentimentality. Northern hemisphere setting (snow, etc). (PB)
(p. 183)
Wanted - A Wife: A College Tale, single work short story romance
A practical joke played on an Australian ('Kangaroo') at Brazenface College, Oxford in 1880 introduces him to Lilian West and romance blossoms from a fictitious matrimonial advertisement. Pleasant. (PB)
(p. 184-185)
A Balloon Journey, single work short story
A scientific association member in London hears a lecture from an intrepid army captain on his balloon journey to the Orkneys. He has a drink with the lecturer and they embark on a flight to France in the morning - concluding with his ejection from the balloon to lighten the ballast. It is of course a dream! Oddly airy humour; low-key. (Linguistic suggestions of a sexual attraction between the men.) (PB)
(p. 186-189)
The Explanation, single work short story humour
A circumlocutory Irish explanation of a horse-theft and consequent hanging. (PB)
(p. 189)
The Dwarf's Twins : A Christmas Story for the Little Ones, Mary Kyle Dallas , single work children's fiction children's
Delightful tale of a German girl's kindness to dwarves on Christmas Eve when she is searching for wood for her grandparents' fire. She takes twin dwarf babies to church to be baptised and is rewarded richly. (PB)
(p. 190)
Keep My Secret, single work short story
A bachelor recounts a journey from France to London and his rapid infatuation with his ingenuously beautiful travelling companion - broken only when he discovers she has stolen his wallet. Ironically self-deprecating tale, slight but wryly told. (PB)
(p. 191-193)
A Christmas Comedy, Margaret Eytinge , single work short story
Rich Miss Eleanor Slinglander scorns the Christmas present sent to her by her swain and despatches it to her sewing girl - once wealthy but now fallen on hard times. It contains an offer of marriage which the girl - Ella - accepts and the suitor decides he has the best bargain after all. Light; unlikely. (PB)
(p. 194-195)
Found in a Wooden Box, Alfred Balch , single work short story western
A US trapper rescues an infant from a wagon train sacked by Indians and raises him as his son. Sixteen years later the boy's mother accidentally meets him on a trip mean his ranch and they are reunited. Slight father/mother - nurturer/blood ties - both valued. (PB)
(p. 195-196)
Links of Holly, Theo March , single work short story romance
Romance of middle-age. A successful businessman returns to the city of his youth to discover the woman he loved has not married another as he thought but has loved him all the time ... Pleasant though full of womanly virtues, 'unspoken pain and smothered passion'. (PB)
(p. 197-198)
An Uninvited Guest, single work prose
Anecdote of Javers I and his different reception by vicar and curate at a country inn to share their lunch. (PB)
(p. 198)
Wainwright's Station, W. W. , single work short story
A scheming governess is to marry her widowed employer until his sister discovers the plot and through her fiancee, a solicitor, reveals that the governess is already married. Her husband warns her and she plays her last card. (PB)
(p. 199-20[4] (Page Missing. PB.))
The Withered Apple, Justin McCarthy , single work short story romance
A salon of literary and artistic women from Great Britain and the US forms in Rome and decide to grant a prize to the most and least handsome man of their acquaintance. A US journalist is given the booby prize but receives it so chivalrously that he eventually wins the fair heiress who presents it to him. Pleasant; international setting for reasonably conventional romance. Group of women but still centred on men ... (PB)
(p. 205-207)
A Christmas Message, single work prose
A grandfather dies on Christmas Eve surrounded with memories of his family and especially his son killed on the battlefield. Pathos and peace combined. Slight. (PB)
(p. 207)
A French Wag, single work prose humour
Practical joke played by the French painter Meissonier on his gardener is repaid in kind. Humour. (PB)
(p. 207)
A Dauntless Woman, single work short story adventure
Tale of heroism from the Belgian coast. A fisherman's wife and a young priest are the only persons willing to put to sea during a terrible storm on 10th October 1843 to rescue the crew of a sinking vessell. The wife is truly rewarded when - unbeknownst to her - her husband and brother are included. (PB)
(p. 215-217)
On Boxing, Bill Nye , single work short story humour
A man is strongly punished by his younger brother during a boxing match arranged for exercise. (PB)
(p. 217)
The Haunted House, Charlotte M. Stanley , single work short story horror
A young nervous bride is brought home to a haunted house which her husband rented cheaply. He refuses to take her away when she discovers it, and she eventually dies from a fall into the cellar. Slight. Overtones of husband's brutal insensitivity. (PB)
(p. 218-219)
The Faithful Shepherd Boy, single work prose
A German shepherd boy's honesty, trust and fidelity to his master win the Grand Duke's admiration, and are rewarded. Brief. (PB)
(p. 219)
Mlle. Eulalie, single work short story romance
An English lawyer returning from a holiday in France without much money befriends a young Frenchwoman journeying to England to be a governess on the channel steamer, and after various delays, a missed train etc., proposes. Lack of money embarrasses them only briefly. (PB)
(p. 220-223)

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Notes:
Includes the tenth instalment of Mrs E. D. E. N. Southworth's serial fiction, 'The Maiden's Vow', pp. 210-215.
Notes:
Includes the sixth instalment of 'Lord Darkwood's Crime; or, The Mystery of Dunholm Castle', p. 175-182.
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