Cirrus@Austlit

On the restrictions of ecclesiastical, legal and conventional tethers - inspired by a tethered goat. (PB)

A 'new chum' the son of a Birmingham iron manufacturing firm selling rolling stock to thr railway tells the story of his engagement to Charlotte West, his Melbourne's landlady's 'daughter' - and his discovery of her infamous past including a murder in Sydney.

A zealous Crown Prosecutor succeeds in obtaining a murder conviction but is convinced by his wife that the prisoner is innocent. How he circumvents the execution in the subject of the confession ... (PB)

Two gold-diggers, mates for six years, part on Christmas Day - one to try his luck one last time on the diggings and one to seek employment on a station. The latter finds a station where the owner's wife turns out to be his own wife who had deserted him five years before. A murder and a suicide follow ... Interesting in parts. Lockhart is improving slowly. (PB)

Description of an aspiring writer's efforts to prevent her literary endeavours from leading to eccentricity in behaviour or dress, or from intefering with her attention to the everyday duties which her marriage to Charlie Bright would entail. A little over-placating but lightly amusing too. (PB)

A pretty young widow determines to make an old farming widower fall in love with her - and then must decide whether or not to marry him. Set in a small town - probably USA. (PB)

Character study of Maximilian Robespierre and the French Revolution. (PB)

On a holiday on an English farm on the Mendip hills in the narrator's youth, a terrible storm and a strange dream, and a chance encounter years later in South Australia. (PB)

A mother's impatience is cured through the death of her baby and illness of her older daughter. (PB)

Set in Manheim [Germany], tale of psychic manifestations, and the death of the narrator on the eve of her wedding as predicted by her sister ... (PB)

On the annoyance caused by a fly. (PB)

Set in a township on the Goulburn River, young love is tested by doubt and proved by a rock in the river. (PB)

Set in an English coastal township, an encounter by the sea prompts a tale of the love match between a man of 70 and his wife of 23. (PB)

Three young ladies choose an escort to a ball on the basis of his evening clothes - and live to regret it. (PB)

On the difficulty of responding to slights - and the wounds they cause. (PB)

An aspiring writer in an Australian city (Melbourne or Sydney?) discovers a bank robber attempting to dupe him, collects the rewards and setles down to the pork business. Light. (PB)

On time-wasting in useless ease. (PB)