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Issue Details: First known date: 1871... vol. 6 no. 72 May 1871 of The Australian Journal est. 1865 The Australian Journal
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Contents

* Contents derived from the , 1871 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Making a Mark in Life, Henry Ward Beecher , single work prose
Moral instructions on succeeding in life - Protestant work ethic. (PB)
 (p. 485)
Portraits and Memoirs, single work prose
Account of the performance of a play to help found the London 'Guild of Literature and Art', involving particulalrly The Duke of Devonshire; Sir Joseph Paxton; Charles Dickens; Mark Lemon; Augustus Egg, R. A.; Robert Bell; Douglas Jerrold and Queen Victoria. (PB)
 (p. 486-487)
Cora, Frances Tyrell Gill , single work short story
Victoria, a beautiful talented woman, sacrifices her own desires to care for her orphaned step-sister and brother and her older brother's bush property. She saves money for the errant younger brother she still hopes to save - and they are briefly reunited before her death. A familiar theme well-told and with fresh interesting side-comments, as for instance on English types, religion and character. (PB)
 (p. 488-492)
Chased by a Railway Train : A Fact, A. S. Carne , single work short story adventure
During a period boring for oil in Pennsylvania in the 1860s, the narrator decides to use a train track to ride along during a snow storm. He and his horse escape death by inches. (PB)
 (p. 499-500)
Odd People, single work prose
On the decline of eccentrics and the increasing similarity of the population. (PB)
 (p. 500)
The Walpurgis-Night, Hoffmann , single work short story thriller
A man on business in Prague, impatient to return to his beloved wife, loses his pocketbook with nearly $1400 in it. It is restored to him by a man he takes to be Satan, and shortly after another meeting - on Walpurgis Night - he is unfaithful to his wife, a murderer, an arsonist, a highway robber and a fratricide. This resolves itself into a dream ... but the force of the tale is in cultivating faith and strength of character. (PB)
 (p. 501-506)
The Oblong Box, Edgar Allan Poe , single work short story (p. 506-508)
My First Sweetheart, Mercutio , single work short story
Reminiscence of a six year old boy's first love. (PB)
 (p. 523)
Their Majesties at Meat, Dr. Doran , single work prose
Collection of anecdotes of the eating customs, feasts etc of royalty around the world and throughout history. (PB)
 (p. 524-525)
Sorrow at Switzers, Susan Nugent Wood , single work short story
Scarlet fever strikes a small town near Otago New Zealand, killing many children. A mother stricken down with inflammation of the lungs worries for her children and others. Pious. (PB)
 (p. 527-528)
Lieutenant Gavell, V. C., Charles L. Money , single work prose
Reminiscence of two meetings with Gavell where he emerged victorious - against Indians at Lucknow, and one against a gold miner at Tuapeka, New Zealand. (PB)
 (p. 528-529)
Mr Lumpkin's Modern Fairy Story, single work children's fiction children's
Of an everyday fairy princess who scorns the everyday faithful prince and marries the dashing ogre who brings her to misery. Told by a portly cigarsmoking fairy 'godmother'. (PB)
 (p. 532-533)
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