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An orphaned niece is a household drudge for her aunt and her daughters - but the rich squatter sees through her lowly position ... Slight, schematic. (PB)
Jerky tale of a half-brother and sister, children of a Tasmanian convict, who meet coincidentally in Kilmore, Victoria, and of their subsequent lives. (PB)
A letter is directed to Mr John Smith instead of Mrs Smith, and he is convinced his wife is carrying on an affair. There is another mistake to discover, however ... (PB)
Childhood sweethearts marry and are happy sailing together. He has to leave her in England when she has a child and he is lost on an island for three years. He returns after four months with a fortune from Australia's goldfields to find that poverty has driven her to the altar with another ... (PB)
The meeting of the Land Board in a country district of Victoria precipitates a quarrel between two suitors for the same girl. Several hours later one of them is feared murdered and suspicion rests on the other. Tom Turner, a boy hired from Victoria's Industrial (Reform) schools helps find the real killer. (PB)
Tale of a goddess reared by doves and shepherds, married to a noble warrior whom she assists and eventually leads in battle, separated from by a jealous king to whom she returns her husband's sufferings. The mythic and the sentimental combined. (PB)
A clergyman's sermons against the devil repeatedly and mysteriously disappear. With the help of two deacons it is proved not to be the devil's own work but a somnambulistic feat ... Light. (PB)
Set in Dumbley, Clayshire, a satiric tale of fishing for a husband. A newly appointed coast-guard captain is hooked at billiards, reeled in at a picnic, and landed at the rectory. (PB)