Cirrus@Austlit

On Shakespeare's genius, the authorship of his plays and the purity of the text. (PB)

On the origins of funerals and the barbarism of the ostentation of contemporary funerals. (PB)

A resentful old station hand at Newalla shoots the owner's son and casts the blame on a youth who lent him his gun. A young trooper convicts him through stolen money in the pouch of his pet kangaroo. (PB)

Plain tale of a Melbourne bank clerk's visit to a country station, of the hospitable family who entertain him, and his love for the elder daughter, Rose. Uninspiring holiday account. (PB)

On perseverance's importance to victory. (PB)

Two men in a bush hut find a young girl in a tree blown over by a storm and Yankee Jim promises her dying mother to look after her. He sends her to Melbourne to be educated but when he visits and finds her a lady he banishes himself overseas. Tale told by a worker to his employer during a buggy ride. Simple. Touching, in parts. (PB)

A Limerick merchant's wife fearing a tragedy in their Killarney summer cottage borrows a hawker's dog only to have her presentiment fulfilled. Brief. (PB)