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Issue Details: First known date: 1874... vol. 9 no. 108 May 1874 of The Australian Journal est. 1865 The Australian Journal
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Contents

* Contents derived from the , 1874 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
The Murderer's Claim, W. W. , single work short story
Two Irish new chums lose their way and find themselves at the Gap Diggings. They soon come to suspect their landlady and her son, their digging partner, of murdering their predecessor. A ghostly manifestation and a vengeful fiancee follow. (PB)
(p. 477-482)
Wayward Fancies : Men I Do Not Like, E. (fl.1874) , single work prose
Drunken men, beggars, pretenders to learning, overdressers, extreme conservatives, larrikins etc. And such women as the very dressy girl, the pretended innocent, the woman trying to be a girl, etc. (PB)
(p. 483)
Children Come Home Again, Henry Ward Beecher , single work prose
On the joys of grandchildren. (PB)
(p. 483)
False or Natural?, Amy Randolph , single work short story
Flippant story of 19-year-old Geraldine Grey's escape from her engagement to 49 year-old Carson Fortescue. Slight; probably not Australian; military background. (PB)
(p. 488-489)
Only the Key Wanted, Frances Henshaw Baden , single work short story
An old mysoginist is healed by the appearance of his once-beloved's daughter and her child at his cottage door. Set in a township. (PB)
(p. 490)
Miss McDermott : A Tale of Misplaced Attachment, single work short story
A handsome bachelor loses two heiresses through the pursuit of mistaken beauty. Silly social snippet. (PB)
(p. 491)
The Knave of Diamonds, Gay Gerald , single work short story
The arrival of a very rich stout old bachelor at a boarding-house throws the laadies into confusion and competition until his arrest reveals all ... (PB)
(p. 492)
A Father's Fatal Mistake, M. K. D. , single work short story
A minister's conviction that his son stole a pound note is proved wrong, but not before the punishment he administers turns the boy into an imbecile. (PB)
(p. 499-500)
Reverie, Myson , single work prose
A gentleman's evening reverie while awaiting his wife's return from shopping gives him a vision of the world's poor begging for food - and it is traced to a fly buzzing in a jug. (PB)
(p. 500-501)
Christmas Eve in the Swell Tent, Will , single work short story
Christmas Eve on one of the largest colonial goldfields, and two English gentlemen and a friend exchange idle chatter and a tale of a grief-stricken German mother. (PB)
(p. 501-503)
A Chinese Practical Joke, Harper's Rover , single work short story
Recounts the story told by a Chinese merchant after a San Francisco dinner. Full of anti-Chinese stereotypes (eg, eating dogs and cats etc), it is the tale of the farcical plottings surrounding the long-awaited birth of a male child to a rich merchant in China. (PB)
(p. 504-506)
Pen and Ink Sketches : No. I - Hokitika and Greymouth, Henry Lapham , single work prose travel
A visit to these New Zealand goldfield townships. (PB)
(p. 506)
How the Manager Made His Escape, Quilp , single work short story
Arthur Sefton, after long delay, is to marry beautiful Miss Hetty in the Victorian mining township of French's Gap where he is manager of the Grand Constrictor Company. On the eve of the wedding his drunken wife appears ... and he makes a final escape. Well-written romance. (PB)
(p. 509-513)
The Rev. Dr Hall on 'Wisdom's Holiday', Henry Ward Beecher , single work prose
Of wit and humour. (PB)
(p. 514)
The Forger's Return, M. K. D. , single work short story
A forger asks and is refused her brother's help after his release. He joins a gang of burglar's when he finds their target is the home of his sister, and that his former beloved is visiting her ... (PB)
(p. 515-516)
Saved on the Brink, Sylvanus , single work short story
A Melbourne broker's clerk, well-positioned and happily-married, is saved on the brink of the long slide to alcoholism. Light, 'sensible' moral tale. (PB)
(p. 516-517)
Making and Marring, Louise S. Dorr , single work short story
A Christmas amidst snow in a small northern hemisphere township (probably US.) True romance and calculating plots interweave in a pleasant, well-written tale of old and young maids, fortune-hunters and restorers. (PB)
(p. 518-522)
Prince Albert Reef : Wattle Flat, J. B. Mummery , single work short story
Set on the Turon River diggings near Sofala NSW in 1859. A near-penniless doctor determines to try his luck on Wattle Flat but his enterprise is cut short when his mining partner's mistress is followed to their hut by her long-term lover, knife in hand ... Smoothly told without the excesses usually associated with such melodrama - though gory enough. (PB)
(p. 523-525)
A Solemn Subject, single work prose
On marriage and the lightness with which it is often entered into. (PB)
(p. 525)
Little by Little, single work prose
On improvements in savings, knowledge and character day by day. (PB)
(p. 527)
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