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Mat Merton, a successful Port Phillip squatter, returns to his grandfather's grange in Yorkshire (and explores England and Europe) winning praise for his horsemanship. Three years later he returns to Australia to find his sister in love with a lawyer, while he falls for the lawyer's sister ... A series of 'thrown' horse races and heavy betting losses cause some minor obstacles. (PB)
A new chum arrives in Australia around 1868 and unable to find a job in Melbourne after several months takes a situation as 'colonial experience youth' on a station past Booligool in outback NSW. The wearying journey there and the harshness of life on the station (from the heat and dryness to the hard, monotonous work) is vividy evoked. (PB)
Tale of the revenge of a magician on an ungenerous monarch through killing his head while allowing his body to live. Probably not a translation, but social satire. (PB)
On the narrator's 'seven years in the wilderness' working on a station on the Lachlan as overseer, until an inheritance allows him to buy his own station. Includes description of rounding up wild cattle. (PB)
Two young girls and a governess at a ladies' educational establishment in Melbourne arrrange tea with their lovers, and an experiment in seeing the spirits of their future husbands. (PB)
A young man, a ward of the Chancellor of Great Britain, leaves the shelter of Rugby school and begins work in a London mercantile house. He falls in love but his plans to marry are foiled ... Light, old-fashioned tale. (PB)
A hunt for lodgings in Melbourne - South Yarra, East Melbourne, Fitzroy. Despite the assistance of a friend visiting from the Wimmera, none of the family establishments prove suitable. (PB)
Tale of two brothers, one honest and plain, one handsome and wild. The latter lives loosely at college until his misconduct causes his mother's death ... Basic, sentimental narrative. (PB)