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Issue Details: First known date: 1891... vol. 27 no. 318 November 1891 of The Australian Journal est. 1865 The Australian Journal
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Contents

* Contents derived from the 1891 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
The Prairie Mirage, single work prose
A US wagon-bourne emigrant and his wife are momentarily fooled by a mirage of a lake - and she dies of disillusion. Frontier pathos. (PB)
(p. 135)
He Rode to Win, single work short story
Romance of the British army in India. A horse race decides the issue of who pretty Leila Marsden is to marry: the rich elderly officer favoured by her sister or penniless sub-lieutenant Charles Willoughby. Light. (PB)
(p. 135-136)
Golden Cross Inn, Camilla , single work short story
English tale of an old man's murder near Manchester solved ten years later and avenged through the courts. The victims's nephew and a helpful landlord at the local inn figure prominently. Slight. (PB)
(p. 137-138)
Presence of Mind, single work prose
A quick-thinking London clerk avoids his employer's ire with a flower and a fictional lady admirer. Slight. (PB)
(p. 138)
An Old Actor's Story, single work short story
Set in the English Midlands, a beautiful young actress wins the love of the famous husband she has separated from years before, jealous of his acting. The narrator befriends her. Includes scenes where they play Romeo and Juliet together, he still unaware of her identity. Light; rough warmth. (PB)
(p. 139-141)
A Daughter-in-Law, single work short story
Quiet study of a loving mother's ruthless supplantation in her own home by her son's wife, eventually killing her with a broken heart. Well-paced, quiet inexorable tone. Interesting. (PB)
(p. 142-144)
The Boatman's Daughter, single work prose
Set near Paris in 1814, a coatman and his daughter help save a wounded French officer, and he marries the girl from gratitude. Brief and basic. (PB)
(p. 144)
Too Late, single work short story
Domestic misunderstanding and jealousy created by a wife's secret separate a couple for ten years. Too late the husband discovers the secret was of his wife's mother's fall from respectability and her death ... Slight; unlikely plot poorly realised. (PB)
(p. 144-145)
Taken at His Word, single work short story
Domestic misunderstanding is soon settled when a wife forsakes jealousy and decides to join her husband in flirtng at parties. Her success soon teaches him to honour his wife ... Slight. (PB)
(p. 154-155)
The Warneford Ghost, single work short story
Understated English ghost tale narrated by sensible Florence who is given the first night alone in a restored haunted room. She prevails upon her sister to sleep with her, and awoken by ghostly footsteps is visited not by a spirit but a mad and murderous housekeeper. Light, amusing. (PB)
(p. 156-157)
Human Nature, single work prose
The characters and sights at the departure of a large ocean steamer. Lively, slight. (PB)
(p. 157)
George the Nun, Jean Richepin , single work short story romance
Romance and brotherly honour in the Franco-Prussian war. A Jesuit novice carries out his dead brother's dying request from the battlefront and seeks and marries the innocent girl he had seduced. Then 'George the Nun' seeks his own death in the war ... Slight; ironic twists. (PB)
(p. 158-159)
An Ocean Diary, single work prose
Departing from Liverpool, a gentleman's stormy, foggy and seasick week at sea, told in form of diary. Slight. (PB)
(p. 159)
A Great Opportunity in his Grasp, single work prose
A shy young man is skillfully drawn to propose to an artful young lady. Humour. (PB)
(p. 160)
The Last Dance, W. W. , single work short story
In rural Victoria, Bella Woodruff ignores her mother's and her aunt's pleading and attends a ball to dance one last time with her seducer and betrayer Brian Coyn who is to marry another. He does not return alive from the ball, and soon after Bella marries his partner. One year later harsh justice is done to the murderer ... (PB)
(p. 160-166)
For Women, single work prose humour
A yacht captain's fruitless attempts to educate ladies in the peculiarities of ships. (PB)
(p. 167)

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Notes:
Includes twelfth instalment of Eve Smith's serialised novel, 'A Woman's Battle With the World. A Story of Hospital Life', pp. 146-154.
Notes:
Includes final instalment of 'Doctor Graeme: An Australian Story', p. 131-135.
Notes:
Includes seventh instalment of Annie S. Swan's 'The Ayres of Studleigh : A Tale of Love and War', pp. 117-123.
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