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Issue Details: First known date: 1886... vol. 21 no. 248 January 1886 of The Australian Journal est. 1865 The Australian Journal
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Contents

* Contents derived from the 1886 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
In the Bottom Drawer, single work prose
The grief of a couple for the dead child. Small daily losses etc. (PB)
(p. 241)
A Glad New Year : Or, the Mystery of Porteth, E. W. P. , single work short story
Light British romance. Elma Morns rescues Clarence Percival, heir to the Manor, from death in a fierce snowstorm on the West Cornwall coast. They are in love but his sister's determination that he should marry his cousin, and Elma's father's refusal to consent prevent them - until a terrible storm on Christmas Eve, the destruction of a lighthouse light, and a mad rescue attempt in the ocean waves and a chance reunion clear the way. Pleasant. (PB)
(p. 242-246)
The Old Shaft, W. W. , single work short story
Constable Mohan riding to the tiny almost deserted diggings of Kyle's Gully falls in with a strange horseman - eventually revealed as Kyle himself returning home. He meets anonymously his bold and beautiful daughter and her drunkared husband, attends the local dance and sees her husband's jealousy, eventually proves he has murdered her. Interesting, for it's theme of a woman who has married the wrong man ... (PB)
(p. 248-254)
With the Old Year, single work prose
A clock counts out the griefs of an old woman over her children's deaths - and as midnight strikes she too is dead. Weak. (PB)
(p. 254)
Caged : A Gaol-Bird's Story, Robert Overton , single work short story
A London cockney is released from Clerkenwell prison and finds and adopts a little boy and his bird in the park. He struggles to find work to support them all but is forced to steal once again and is released in time to hold the child as he dies. Pathos. (PB)
(p. 256-257)
The Fireworks, single work short story
Humorous tale of married life and jealousy. An English couple at Ghent during a fete for the London volunteers quarrel over a pretty American girl - who the husband mistakes for his wife during the fireworks and hoists onto his shoulders for the view. Further fireworks follow. Amusing, mysoginist. (PB)
(p. 273-275)
John Jay's Journey : A New Year's Story, Louise Chandler Moulton , single work short story romance
London romance of suicide and new life. A London journalist resolves to kill himself on New Year's Eve 1879 when the woman he loves unrequitedly will not see him, and he is poor and without family. The care of a poor dressmaker and a drunken cobbler save him and bring him fresh hope. Well-written, sentimentality generally contained, interesting re: suicide. (PB)
(p. 276-278)
Our Telephone Girl, single work prose humour
A switchboard operator interrupts a doctor's phone call with a boilerman's and the resulting advice loses him his practice. Humour. (PB)
(p. 278)
The Rustling of Wings, W. W. , single work short story
A woman's memory of the last time she saw a wise friend of her parents' before the family left England, the story of her sad marriage and the deaths of her children and her discussion of the rustle of angel's wings that comes at death. Slight; exemplary. (PB)
(p. 279-280)
A Boy with a Bulge, single work prose
A father and son surprise each other at the circus - and agree to keep mutual silence. (PB)
(p. 288)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Notes:
Includes the final instalment of P.S.'s serial fiction "The Ship That Never Came: An Australian Tale", p. 258-262.
Notes:
Includes the first instalment of 'Our Christmas Picnic, and the Stories Told at It', pp. 263-273.
Notes:
Includes the seventh instalment of Sarah Parr's 'A Terrible Resolve; Or, Lady Elgar's Child', pp. 233-239.
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