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Set in NSW, a pedler and his daughter find shelter in a friendly farmer's house - but the peddler's sudden disappearance brings a charge of murder to the family ... Simple tale, slightly unusual subjects. (PB)
On the Aborigines of the Warego tribe - their customs, social relations, etc. Depicts them as degraded savages. Anecdotes of Old Billy predominate, including his death - in self-defence. (PB)
Records the 14 months from the narrator's arrival in Melbourne with his friend Duke from England; their acquaintance with local relatives and the parasite family (to one of whom the Duke becomes engaged), country picnics, balls etc. - concluding with Ralph's own marriage. Pleasant and humorously written. (PB)
Jerky account of the narrator's wanderings - spending a £500 legacy, auctioneering, and gold-digging on the Crystal Valley fields where he and his mates 'adopt' an eight-year-old orphan. (PB)
A case set 'in one of our largest towns, and in one of the finest houses in its most aristocratic quarter.' The second wife of a rich merchant confined to a mental asylum attempts to recover a stolen deed of gift granting her his property ... (PB)
A woman unable to speak her heart, regarded as a statue by society, at last confesses her love as the steamship in which she is travelling to England sinks. (PB)