Cirrus@Austlit

On married couples who have either been everywhere and done everything, or who extol each other's virtues publicly. (PB)

The unfortunate first night of two amateur actors and a pianist in an up-country Victorian township. Concludes with a moral on working hard at a profession. (PB)

A good but silent servant, John Strong, is employed by Zechariah and Mrs Dipple, the latter not being able to contain her curiosity about the contents of a box he carries. One day she arranges for another to open it, and her daughter, Selina, helps comfort John when he discovers the breach. (PB)

A poetic and a prose depiction of a fire on a US steamer and a heroic deed by 'Jim Bludso' in the poem and John Maynard in the prose. Curiosity. (PB)

On the life and career of this US humorist. (PB)

Recollections of tragedy on the Victorian diggings (Green Hills) in 1857. The narrator's two mates fall in love with a store-keeper's daughter which leads to jealousy, murder and madness. (PB)

Romance of Blanche Wells, daughter of an English country doctor who marries an elderly baronet and goes with him to New Zealand. Her young lover, Jack Loring, follows her, she eventually leaves her cruel husband, but on the eve of her marriage to Loring he is killed. She dies, a wrecked woman, a few years later in Melbourne. (PB)

On the types of men not wanted in Victoria. E.g., men of utopian ideas, extravagant expectations, those who live fast or are without energy, etc. (PB)

On eccentric gastronomists like Mrs Jeffreys of Bath, and strange dishes like dog. Including a brief discussion of the burial customs of 'Thibetan' nobility, and a longer one on the eating habits of Australian Aborigines. (PB)

First hand description of the pain experienced when a surgeon cuts a nerve. (PB)

Hezekiah Spaulding outsmarts the owner of a hotel in an Ohio village - eats his full breakfast and has the coach brought back to the door when he is ready. (PB)

A Kentucky native catches a tiger in India with the help of his cousin Ezra, without gun or knife. (PB)