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Issue Details: First known date: 1877... vol. 12 no. 140 January 1877 of The Australian Journal est. 1865 The Australian Journal
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Contents

* Contents derived from the 1877 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Sybil's Pride, R. A. , single work short story
Tale of how a daughter's pride lost her a fiancee and how a mother's humility gained her a son's health and a husband. Slight, fast-paced. (PB)
(p. 227)
Going to the Dentist's, single work prose humour
Desperation at last drives the narrator to the dentist. Humorous. (PB)
(p. 228)
Love or Money?, single work short story
A poor schoolteacher marries a rich but older squatter for his money - and learns to love him. (PB)
(p. 229)
Courted by Mistake : A Christmas Story, Europa , single work short story
A Melbourne family spend the Christmas week with a wealthy aunt at Brighton, in 1874. The son from Mr Marshall's first marriage courts his aunt's poorer-looking female visitor, his step-brother courting the apparent heiress. Pleasant romance; entertaining study of social relations. (PB)
(p. 237-238)
Strangely Betrothed, single work short story
Romance of a coffee-planter's daughter in Ceylon. Vivid descriptions especially of nature and the Minary Lake. Recounts her resource in rescuing her lover from the palunga snake, and his in return. (PB)
(p. 237-238)
American Jottings [2], M. Walsh , single work prose humour
His experiences as a naval musician on a US steamer looking-out for slave ships, destination Havana, Cuba. Description of the sailors drinking and thieving, of incidents in Cuba, at Key West and the Tortugas ... (PB)
(p. 239-240)
From the Depths, M. E. M. , single work short story
Moral tale of a husband's decline through his wife's determination to break his vow of total abstinence on their wedding day - and his recovery. Sententious. (PB)
(p. 240-244)
Love's Sacrifice, Jenny Wren , single work short story
Romance of a marriage begun for duty but ending in love - though nearly lost. Generalised upper class setting. (PB)
(p. 242-243)
Mr Mumchance Mystified, single work short story
Short humorous tale about a merchant's daughter who avoids marrying the rich dandy and gains her young lawyer through acting Lady Macbeth and being presumed mad. (PB)
(p. 243-244)
Little Tessa's New Year : A Story for the New Year, Waif Wander , single work short story
Set on the Victorian diggings. Norman Brent adopts a poor orphaned brother and sister on their arrival at Sandridge pier and takes them to his tent on the diggings. Tessa sickens and Ernest falls in love with Norman's girl - plotting murder as reward for his care ... Particularly interesting for its opposition of the young Tessa, and Laura, 'The Bad Woman' who is appropriately punished. (PB)
(p. 245-253)
Sylvia's New Year, single work short story
Society romance: pretty Sylvia, disinherited by the marriage of her rich aunt, discovers that the man she has been avoiding in her two years of poverty had proposed to her in a mislaid letter. Slight. (PB)
(p. 254-255)

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Notes:
Includes the fourth instalment of serial fiction, 'Nina Cavallon; Or, the Foundling's Bride. A Persian Romance'. pp. 217-226.
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