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Issue Details: First known date: 1872... vol. 7 no. 85 June 1872 of The Australian Journal est. 1865 The Australian Journal
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Contents

* Contents derived from the , 1872 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Down to the Dregs: Or, Feeding on his Fellows, Craven , single work short story
On the kismet that drags a young Irishman to his ruin - through Irish 'agitators', a bad marriage, and Australian card sharpers. (PB)
 (p. 537-545)
The End of Judge Harbottle, J. S. Le Fanu , single work short story
A ghostly occurrence raises the tale of the cunning and villainous Judge Harbottle, who died mysteriously in 1748 in Westminister, London. Wronged and convicted men - or their ghosts - seemed to be associated with his end. (PB)
 (p. 546-549)
Stolen from Thomas Tompkins, M. K. D. , single work short story
On the worry cause to Thomas Tompkins by the inheritance of a £300 diamond ring. Set in England and France. (PB)
 (p. 559-560)
The Two Girls with the Golden Hair, Harriet P. Spofford , single work short story
Kate Grey sells her golden hair to the rich Marian Vandecker - who had lost hers in a fever - in order to care for her sick mother. In her doctor Kate finds the lover Marian loses. (PB)
 (p. 561-564)
Separated, George St Claire , single work short story
1870 in Melbourne and a romance between a youthful author and his sweet Lucy blossoms - only to be mysteriously interrupted by a letter. Contrived. (PB)
 (p. 564-565)
Fathers-in-Law, K. (fl.1872) , single work prose
On the capacity of fathers-in-law to be over meddlesome. (PB)
 (p. 567)
Star and Candle, single work short story
A dying mother's love transforms her son's life from one of vice to nobility - and separates him for ten years from the woman he comes to know he loves - but too late. For his heiress hates him and marries another ... (PB)
 (p. 570-573)
Puns and Punsters, single work prose
On puns, wit and the English language. (PB)
 (p. 573)
The Haunted Log Cabin, An Old 'Ledger' Contributor , single work short story
Two young city women on holdiays in the Australian bush are forced to shelter in an old log cabin on a stormy night - and have a ghostly encounter ... Humour. (PB)
 (p. 576)
Two Kinds of Wives, Fanny Fern , single work prose
On the part men play in forming 'the family slave' and 'the fashionable woman'. (PB)
 (p. 585)
A Letter from Johnny at School, single work prose
Humour; phonetic letter purportedly from boarding school boy to his mother. (PB)
 (p. 589)
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