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Issue Details: First known date: 1874... vol. 10 no. 114 November 1874 of The Australian Journal est. 1865 The Australian Journal
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Contents

* Contents derived from the , 1874 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Overboard, R. H. , single work short story
A convict being transported to Botany Bay saves the daughter of an officer from being drowned during the voyage - changing her mother's opinion of him. Workmanlike and brief. (PB)
 (p. 126-127)
Corporal Punishment : One Side of the Question, Ferula , single work prose
A colonial teacher argues for corporal punishment for students on the basis of the incorrigible Robkins whose character was saved by a flogging at a wooden triangle. (PB)
 (p. 127)
Merton's Dream Story, Aurifex , single work short story
Set on the Ovens River, Victoria in 1862 at Beechworth, near another Victorian country town in 1867, and at Hobart town, Tasmania, in February 1868. A dream of danger in three scenes is fulfilled over six years in a government clerk's life. Easy tone of masculine camaraderie - a blokey story of the bush and presentiment. (PB)
 (p. 128-131)
Patience, Myson , single work prose
Patience as a virtue and as inertia. (PB)
 (p. 132)
Example, A. G. D. , single work prose
Example rather than nature determines our life. (PB)
 (p. 133)
The Jeweller of Ascalon, single work short story
Anecdote of a jeweller of Ascalon who honoured his father more than a sale of diamonds. Exemplary folk tale. (PB)
 (p. 134)
The Melbourne Lethe, W. S. Targett , single work short story
Contains an old Melbourne boatman's account of suicides in the Yarra near Prince's Bridge. (PB)
 (p. 134)
Macbeth, C. (fl. 1874) , single work prose
The author's and Sir Walter Scott's opinions on the historical accuracy of Shakespeare's portrait of the Scottish king. (PB)
 (p. 134)
The Pink Heath, W. W. , single work short story
A tragedy of Victori'as Western District where a cattle station owner's daughter disappears. Melbourne detective Dan Scully suspects the owner's nephew who desperately wished to marry her ... (PB)
 (p. 151-155)
Billow's Claim, Anthony Brown (fl.1874) , single work short story
Fraud in a gold mining co-operative by men in Chinese disguise is uncovered. Unwieldy and unclear. (PB)
 (p. 156-157)
Old Glory, Penn Polytale , single work prose
An inmate of a colonial asylum for aged and worn-out men who speaks only in church or prayer. (PB)
 (p. 164-165)
Sympathy, Essayez , single work prose
The effect on other's created by sympathy. (PB)
 (p. 165-166)
Fashionable, single work short story
Satirical account of ball toilettes at a Wyoming Territory ball - 'army-blanket overskirt' etc. (PB)
 (p. 167)
Phrenological Aspect of the Occupants of Prisons and Lunatic Asylums, James H. Hume , single work prose
Author's reflections on phrenology and reminiscences of visits to prisons and examination of inmates' skulls - including Frank Gardiner the bushranger. Includes suggestions for improving education of children and society. There are other articles by Hume but they do not contain the autobiographical content of this one. (PB)
 (p. 168-169)
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