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Issue Details: First known date: 1877... vol. 12 no. 142 March 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.
A Social Lesson, single work short story
Moral tale on the desirability of forgiving friends quickly. Based around a widow, her brother, and the refusal of a neighbour to lend his team of horses. Sententious. (PB)
(p. 334-335)
How a Queen Ran Away, single work short story
On Queen Matilda of England and her marvellous escapes from her enemies. (PB)
(p. 335)
A Lover's Device, single work short story
Set in early 19th Century England, a nephew persuades his uncle to consent to his marriage by a ruse. (PB)
(p. 336)
The Three Damsels : A Tale of Halloween, single work short story
The Countess of Moray, Scotland, recounts the tale of a Halloween from her youth to her grand-daughters. Three young noblewomen use the old Scottish traditions to discover who would be their husbands - and sadly influence their lives forever. (PB)
(p. 337-338)
Sue's Mother-in-Law, single work short story
A fiancee's fears of her potential mother-in-law prove to be groundless. Really an essay on the topic in dramatic form. (PB)
(p. 338-340)
A Prince Finds his Heart, single work short story
Humorous tale of Prince Stuffwell who marries plain Midge Chilliwilli for her apple pudding. (PB)
(p. 340)
What Her Pride Did, Nellie Carnegie , single work short story
Maud Chalmer's pride prevents her accepting Everard Tennant's explanation of a private conversation with his previous finacee - and Maud loses him. (PB)
(p. 341-342)
Laughing Brook, single work short story
A broken engagement in an English village is restored two years later. The heartsore clergyman is injured attempting to rescue his lover from a fire, and she nurses him in the guise of a Japanese servant. (PB)
(p. 342-344)
Maud Ellis, Patrick Shanahan , single work short story
A mysterious and beautiful singer at a country concert near Myrniong, Victoria, enslaves three of the four literary and artistic protagonists. But the fourth, a French artist, recognises her as the murdress of his brother in Paris. Tone swings from masculine literary mateship to melodramatic adventure. (PB)
(p. 344-347)
Dream and Earnest : An O'er True Tale, C. L. (fl. 1877-1899) , single work short story
Tragic tale of a French journalist who meets and loves a girl the night before she enters the convent, and sees her again years later on the Paris stage. His life is wasted seeking her love ... PB)
(p. 347-348)
His Choice, Delta , single work short story
Village spinsters are annoyed when their minister becomes engaged to a woman from the neighbouring parish. An an old stigma is removed. (PB)
(p. 348-349)
Helen, I. X. L. , single work short story
Romance begun in a railway carriage and carried through - with the assistance of friends - in Melbourne. Wry narrative style. (PB)
(p. 350-351)
The Jealous Maiden : Or, On the Brink of Loeder-Lachen, single work short story romance
German historical romance. A humble cottage maiden sees her love victorious at the duke's festival and - imagining him in love with the Lady Idessa - takes herself to the Loeder-Lachen contemplating suicide. Includes the legend of the lake. Stilted though slight narrative interest in changing perspective of heroine. (PB)
(p. 352-354)
Dark Joe; Or, the Wreath of Blood Flower, W. W. , single work short story
Set on the Camden plains in pioneering settlement days, an old hermit's murderous revenge on the father or pretty, vain Lydia Hermon who had seduced his own daughter years before. Includes parallel account of a boy's initiation to manhood. (PB)
(p. 354-362)
How She Smuggled, single work prose
A wife subverts her husband's refusal to allow her to smuggle lace across the Canadian border - with a clever needle and a stuffed poodle. (PB)
(p. 363)

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Notes:
Includes the sixth instalment of serial fiction, 'Nina Cavallon; Or, the Foundling's Bride. A Persian Romance'. pp. 325-333.
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