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Issue Details: First known date: 1891... vol. 26 no. 315 August 1891 of The Australian Journal est. 1865 The Australian Journal
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* Contents derived from the 1891 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
A Story of the French Revolution, single work short story historical fiction romance
Marie Antoinette and her maid-of-honour Jeane de Choiseul visit a famed necromancer and learn their fates - Marie to the guillotine, Jeane to be saved by a man of the people whom she will marry. Jeane's story is told ... Basic tale. (PB)
 (p. 647-648)
The Nun of Killeen, Waif Wander , single work short story mystery
A stranger's death on the goldfields in 1854. The fate of his bones and his life as a wanderer are revealed in the diary he left, recounted by the narrator. As a youth he journeyed from England to Ireland in 1815 to gather relics from the evacuation of some ancient Christian graveyard for his antiquarian father. He disturbs a nun's bones and relics, and true to an old Irishman's curse, is haunted by her ghost till the day of his death. Capable. (PB)
 (p. 649-652)
Leading to Death, single work prose
A New Mexico Indian tracks a white man, a prospector, up a gorge and kills him. Suspense. (PB)
 (p. 652)
The First Chew of Tobacco, William Dean Howells , single work prose

'US exemplary sketch. A boy poling a canal-boat reacts strongly to his first chew of tobacco.' (PB)

 (p. 658)
Live for Something : A Sketch for Youth, Sylvanus Cobb (Jnr) , single work short story
US exemplary tale - espousing the work ethic. A young man is refused by his prospective father-in-law on the grounds that he has no direction and could not provide for a wife. He finally undertakes medicine and work prospers. After performing an amputation in his home town he is finally accepted by his sweetheart's father ... Predictable. (PB)
 (p. 659-661)
Maud Willoughby's Inheritance, Southern Cross (fl. ca.1887-1890) , single work short story
Melbourne detective tale of robbery, romance and impersonation. A clergyman is robbed of £500 given to him for charity and a detective comes to live with his family for several weeks to solve the crime. Fortune-telling and character assessment show that much is the reverse of what it seems: the governess and the rebellious step-son suspected; the light-hearted daughter and the English cousin she must marry to inherit a fortune apparently motiveless. Robbery and attempted murder follow ... Well written tale. (PB)
 (p. 662-666)
The Cry in the Darkness, single work prose
Western US account of an Indian spy shot by a watchful sentinel at a wagon camp near the Loup River. (PB)
 (p. 666-667)
A Boston Parisienne, Rose Eytinge , single work short story
Woman's friendship ruined by jealousy and betrayal in Paris in the 1870s and Boston in the 1880s. Prudence Wingate of Boston and Delphine Beaupre of New Orleans are inseparable until Prudence discovers her husband and Delphine have been having an affair for 2 years. Knowing of her friend's heart condition, Prudence kills her with chloroform, confessing to her husband 10 years later on her own deathbed. Nice study of jealousy and passion behind the facade of New England righteousness. Smoothly written. (PB)
 (p. 667-670)
His Little John, J. L. Harbour , single work short story
A father's grief for his dead four year-old son softens the heart of a newspaper editor. Pathos. (PB)
 (p. 670)
The Baggageman's Story, Charles N. Hood , single work short story thriller
US ghost tale. A railway baggageman's account of his encounter with a spirit while transporting a coffin one night. The spirit was eager to let his grieving poor son know where a will leaving all his wealth to him was. His nephew was rejoicing ... Slight. (PB)
 (p. 677-678)
The Cellarton Mystery, W. W. , single work short story

The death of a miser in a small town stirs up the trooper to demand an inquest. A rollicking young man's flirting with the maid of the miser's daughter, the eminent local doctor's eagerness to avoid an inquest, the drugging of the trooper and the theft of the old man's gold and his corpse reveal greed and vivisection. (PB)

 (p. 684-691)
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Notes:
Includes final instalment of L. T. Maude's serial fiction, 'A Life for a Love', pp. 653-658.
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Includes ninth instalment of Eve Smith's serialised novel, 'A Woman's Battle With the World. A Story of Hospital Life', pp. 671-677.
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Includes fourth instalment of Annie S. Swan's 'The Ayres of Studleigh : A Tale of Love and War', pp. 639-645.
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Includes final instalment of Ruth Annabel's 'William Steel', pp. 682-683.
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