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Issue Details: First known date: 1882... vol. 17 no. 204 May 1882 of The Australian Journal est. 1865 The Australian Journal
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Contents

* Contents derived from the , 1882 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
An Accident All Around, single work prose
An attempt to convert a policeman results in the mistaken arrest of a deacon. (PB)
(p. 475)
A Noble Woman, G. B. Richards , single work short story
Sentimental moral tale of a woman who enters a gambling den to save her fiancee from destruction and dishonour. Chief tempter is half Italian, half Spanish. (PB)
(p. 476)
Just in Time, single work short story
A British major saves an Indian boy from being thrashed by a soldier in Northern India and is amply repaid by the boy's loyalty and sagacity during the sepoy mutiny of 1857. British Indian military tale. (PB)
(p. 477-478)
Quiet Virtue and Noisy Crime, single work prose
On the thousand virtues hidden beneath the public crimes, etc. (PB)
(p. 478)
The Mystery of a Holly House, Marie Hazen , single work short story
US murder mystery of 1870s. A beautiful young girl's unexplained death at a holiday house is eventually traced to a runaway ape. Tension well sustained, conclusion a little disappointing. (PB)
(p. 479-480)
The Old Serjeant, single work prose
A ticking clock in a US hospital calls a dying serjeant's last roll-call. (PB)
(p. 480)
The Printer, single work prose
Witty paradoxical aphorisms describe the printer's job. Humour. (PB)
(p. 480)
The Secret Closet, W. H. S. , single work short story
A stranger's mysterious death by poison is proven to be the work of his host for the night through a housekeeper's evidence and the prosecuting lawyer's quick mind and subtle questioning. (PB)
(p. 481-482)
Why I Had Two Wedding Days, Marie Hazen , single work short story
Humorous romance of a bridegroom's resentment of the fuss surrounding his wedding; the misadventure that left him wounded and locked in the vestry for three days; and his eventual reconciliation with his bride. Pleasantly told. (PB)
(p. 483-484)
The Broken Ring, single work short story detective
A New York compositor's daughter about to claim her inheritance in St Louis according to the conditions imposed by her eccentric aunt, is robbed of her ruby ring by a pickpocket on the train. The detective narrator finds the ring by coincidence during another train journey over a year later. Well-written if slight in substance. (PB)
(p. 485-486)
A Railway Episode, single work short story
A tale of misadventure. A clergyman on his way to take up the living at Rorleigh near Birmingham frightens the girl sharing his railway compartment and she falls to her death from the carriage. He covers up the accident but confesses shortly before he dies from overwork. Well written, tension well maintained. (PB)
(p. 488-489)
Sydney Smith's Cold, single work prose
Anecdote of the English clergyman's extreme sense of humour. (PB)
(p. 489)
The Apprentice's Leap : A Story of London Bridge, single work short story historical fiction
Historic tale of Edward Osborne's rescue of his master's daughter from the Thames, his later marriage to her and his fame. Sir Walter Raleigh appears briefly. Slight. (PB)
(p. 490)
The Frozen Heart, Violette Woods , single work short story
A girl apparently rejected by the man she loves determines to have her revenge. She teaches him to hope again after his invalid wife dies, only to marry another man as soon as the first love proposes. But pride had frozen her heart ... Competently written, recipe plot. (PB)
(p. 491-493)
A Happy Home, single work prose
Exemplary anecdote of a poor German family made happy by the children's obedience. Weak. (PB)
(p. 493)
Leaves from a Fallen Tree : A Story for Children, Fidele , single work children's fiction children's
Australian children's story. A little girl's pity for the spirit of a dead tree is repaid as the spirit shows her scenes from its life: kangaroos, an Aboriginal corroboree, a digger's death, settlement, and the growth of a city. Appealing. (PB)
(p. 494-495)
Intensely Utter, single work prose
A grocer's daughter returns from boarding school full of high-flown language and he and his wife decide she will not return but help run the house. Humour. (PB)
(p. 495)
Wooing by Proxy, Grace Bell , single work short story romance
An heiress is wooed by a reluctant eldest son to win her wealth to his poor but noble family. Much of the duty falls on to his younger brother, and thrown together they fall in love. He leaves with his men to fight and die in the Crimean War, and in time she marries his brother "and paid off the mortgage upon Redhall." Well written with nice ironic edge; light. (PB)
(p. 496-501)
Gift, Janet Carroll , single work short story
In the Australian bush a minister finds and adopts a lost motherless girl of 16. He educates her in the city to be a teacher and she returns as governess to his neighbour's children. On her return she discovers not only her love for him but her father, a weak thief whom the minister has redeemed ... Warmly sentimental. Child-like girl-love for guardian. NB Her name is Gift - her mother's gift to her father, and a gift to the minister. Freud/Levi-Strauss, etc. (PB)
(p. 501-504)
A Good Plan, Leola Glenwood , single work prose
Grandmotherly advice to delay before sending an angry letter saves a girl from losing a friendship through gossip. Light moral sketch. (PB)
(p. 504)
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