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Issue Details: First known date: 1885... vol. 20 no. 243 August 1885 of The Australian Journal est. 1865 The Australian Journal
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Contents

* Contents derived from the 1885 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Sudden White Hair, single work prose
A young man of Vienna wins the hand of a sexton's daughter at a very high price - a night spent atop the Cathedral through the old sexton's schemes, its hardships turning his hair white. (PB)
(p. 647)
Mr Fernalde's Ideal, single work short story romance
Romance of youth dispelled in fortunate old age. A happily married couple of 50 years have an irritating guest staying with them - who is eventually revealed as the great love of the husband's life, treasured secretly through his years of otherwise perfect happiness. His wife's quiet scheme removes his last illusion. (PB)
(p. 648-649)
Seven Years, H. Douglas , single work short story
A woman marries against her father's wishes and lives a life of poverty with her drunken husband. She leaves him for the child's sake but in the divorce she only has custody until he is 7. The child dies on the eve of his 7th birthday - as his mother had prayed rather than have him suffer through his father's revenge. Thin but subject strong - women's legal rights, custody etc. (PB)
(p. 650-652)
Our Lark, W. D. C. , single work short story
A grandfather's account of a hoax played in his youth on a farm when he and his brother convinced themselves they had hung a farm hand ... but it was only a Guy Falkes doll. Plain, competent tale. (PB)
(p. 652-653)
Jones' Yarn, single work short story adventure
A pub tale of the narrator's adventures as a fire-brigade volunteer in Melbourne in the 1860s - of a daring rescue of a young woman that resolves into a dream. Thin, with incidental but interesting references to the brigade. (PB)
(p. 659)
Chemistry : Practical and Theoretical, single work prose humour
On the loss of weight and the heating elements in coal - and a practical way to prevent it. (PB)
(p. 659)
For Jack At Sea, M. E. M. , single work short story romance
An officer on a steamer sailing from Madeira to Southampton rescues four sailors and a young woman from a lifeboat on the open sea. Romance follows with the apparently penniless and orphaned girl in the care of the officer and his aunt - and only then does he discover his fiancee to be an heiress, teaching for a time in Malta as a governess to escape fortune hunters. Light. (PB)
(p. 660-665)
Meeting His Match, single work prose humour
Rev. Dr. Ritchie of Edinburgh meets his match in a student he examines. (PB)
(p. 666)
A Double Blunder, single work short story
Escaped madman genre. Two men meeting on an English country path mistake each other for a recently escaped lunatic - and only learn the truth when they meet at Arch Hall. (PB)
(p. 667-668)
An Inquisitive Traveller, single work prose humour
US anecdote of the narrator's surly mood on a train trip from New York to Albany and a farmer's mischievous interchange with him. (PB)
(p. 668)
A Multiplicity of Guides, single work prose humour
The eager reception given two young women visiting a newspaper office. (Change from the cynical stance usually taken.) (PB)
(p. 668)
Henry Liversedge's Model, single work prose
Account of the British painter's failure to finish a portrait of Christopher Sly because of the substitute model's head for alcohol. (PB)
(p. 668)
Behind the Tapestry, L. T. Mead , single work short story
English 'ghost' story. A widow's visit to an English country house is disturbed by a thief's entry into her bedroom - but most put it down to the ghost which supposedly haunted the room. Ten years later she recognises the thief in court and he is convicted. (PB)
(p. 678-680)
They Weren't Sandwiches, single work prose humour
A landlord's revenge on a railway traveller who complains about the food. Probably Australian. (PB)
(p. 680)
A Witless Thing, single work short story romance
Lady Mary Pettigrew and Lord Grayton meet at a dance in a lunatic asylum, each mistaking the other for an inmate. Fanciful, lightly amusing. (PB)
(p. 680-682)
A Story of Russia, single work short story
US tale. A Russian emigre tells his American lodging-house neighbour the secret of his aged face and bitterness - betrayal by the wife he had loved when an officer in the Russian army. He dies on the night he hears from his wife, herself dying, that she had sacrificed herself for his release from prison. Slight. (PB)
(p. 682-684)
The Proposal, single work short story romance
A young girl's first entry into society introduces her to Captain Chichester and to the enmity of several women. A cruel trick leads her to declare her feelings to him in a note - which he answers with the news that he is engaged. Several months of seclusion pass - but all ends happily. Slight main interest is in the bitchiness of the women. (PB)
(p. 684-685)
Too Considerate, single work prose humour
A boy reveals the truth of his mother's sale of their chickens to the visiting minister. (PB)
(p. 686)
Saved by a Dream, single work short story
US tale of precognition. A Vermont farmer's dreams of the murder of his wife and children by thieves causes him to return home early from a trip - in time to save them. (PB)
(p. 686)
The Power of a Word, single work prose
The influence of a mother's requst to her son, a sailor, not to drink spreads beyond his own life. Sentimental moral! (PB)
(p. 693)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Notes:
Includes first instalment of W. W.'s short story, 'Joe Silverton's Ghost', pp. 653-658.
Notes:
Includes the third instalment of P.S.'s serial fiction "The Ship That Never Came: An Australian Tale", p. 669-678.
Notes:
Includes the second instalment of Sarah Parr's 'A Terrible Resolve; Or, Lady Elgar's Child', pp. 639-647.
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