Cirrus@Austlit

How a poor young doctor on the eve of emigrating to Australia from England takes over the urgent case of a duke, and thus makes his name and fortune. Brief. (PB)

A clergyman's daughter makes a visit to her rich aunt, wins two handsome and wealthy suitors, and after a brief misunderstanding marries the preferred option. Sentimental, pleasant, light; pattern of the 'good and pleasing' daughter and wife - spirited and pure, with knowledge of suffering! (PB)

Folk tradition of France where a traveller's kindness to a stranger is rewarded by a warning to avoid the execution secretly planned for him by a despotic cardinal. Brief. (PB)

Entertaining English/Australian romance, set in England. Madge Meredith, bored with her position as governess to a kindly doctor's family in the country, replies to a letter from Dr Percy Meredith in Australia as if she truly is the sister he mistakenly believes her to be. His arrival in England, followed a few weeks later by the appearance of his real sister, place her in an embarrassing situation ... Amusing lively tale which includes the amusing antics of a donkey. (PB)

Practical advice to an aspiring author who visits an editorial office - principally from the horse reporter. (PB)

A retired major and a money-lender arrange an elaborate confidence trick to defraud a legatee of his future inheritance. Confusing and amusing in parts. (PB)

A summer steamer travelling from New York to Liverpool, England, is the setting for a flirtation between the widowed Cora Plover and an eccentric 'cowboy' whom she deigns to associate with despite his lack of class. Positions change when they reach England and he reveals himself as the Honourable James Mayne ... and in love with another woman. Amusing romance with counter-foils of appearance and reality. (PB)

Results of a practical joke when 'S' swtiches bottles of tonic and bay-rum from the barber's shop with absinthe and bitters from the neighbouring bar. US Humour. (PB)

Rural romance, slight. A farmer's daughter resents the lodger who occupies what was once her parlour, but her prejudices are finally overcome ... (A beauty unfit for a farmer's wife in her father's opinion.) (PB)

The discomfort of a boy's haircut. (PB)

An aged mother on the train to St Louis to see her son injured in a foundry accident dies midway, and meets her son who also died. Warm sentiment. (PB)

Humorous tale of an almost abandoned gold mining township, a mean-spirited shoemaker, a mysterious English stranger from California, a spirite dog, a widow lady, and a deathbed vow to bury the bones of a man murdered years before. (PB)

A wife discovers that her husband is not joining the Masons but gambling. Slight. (PB)

A scientific editor crushes an aspiring journalist's hopes of employment very speedily. (PB)