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Issue Details: First known date: 1887... vol. 23 no. 268 September 1887 of The Australian Journal est. 1865 The Australian Journal
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Contents

* Contents derived from the 1887 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Forget Her Name and Residence, single work prose
Anecdote of Mme de Montgolfier who forgot her name and address shortly before she died in Paris, but her age - 111 - identified her. Brief. (PB)
(p. 13)
Room at the Top, single work prose
An old lawyer's advice to a young man on business success: choose your profession, qualify for it and work hard. Ask no advice nor assistance. (PB)
(p. 14)
An Odd Story of the Justice Room, single work short story
English tale of murder and romance. A cashier at a London merchant firm is murdered and the head clerk suspected and arrested. An advertisement to his fiancee with whom he had quarrelled implicates him - But it is only through her testimony and the discovery of the true advertiser that justice is done. (PB)
(p. 15-18)
An Indian Tradition, single work short story
Cross-cultural romance. Tale of love between a white hunter and the beautiful daughter of a chief of the Delawares in the USA. Her father refuses to allow them to marry and burns the hunter at the stake - but his daughter jumps to her death from the Calicoon falls. It marks the beginning of the end for the Delawares. Slight; retains a flavour of Indian/mythic language. (PB)
(p. 19-20)
A Dinner for the Poor, single work prose
A Quaker in Nottingham ends with an abuse of the poor-rates by inviting the workhouse inhabitants to consume the committee dinner. Anecdote of William Fox. (PB)
(p. 20)
Brassy Bill's Plant, W. W. , single work short story
A thief returns to the site where he hid the proceeds of a bank robbery years before. He has been long awaited by the detective of the case who is obsessed with claiming the reward for discovery of the gold for his little daughter Nellie, and has a small observatory and telescope to watch the site. Drugged spirits and the little girl's murder follow, and the thief's own drowning. (PB)
(p. 20-26)
Beside the River, Sheila , single work short story
Light romance set around a country house and river. A poet is jilted by the beauty he loves when richer men appear. Several years later, his reputation made, he meets again the younger tom-boy sister who has long loved him ... (PB)
(p. 27-29)
A Typical Lynching Case, A. H. (Mr.) Paterson , single work prose
An account of summary justice administered to two murderers wrongly acquitted through bribery. Detailed account of the process but not of the hanging itself; representing the act as just. (PB)
(p. 30)
Only a Tramp, single work prose
Reflection caused by a newspaper notice of a tramp killed by a train. Includes father-son relationship. (PB)
(p. 30)
Baby's Mission, single work prose
A baby born to a poor family with many children already dies at 2 years old - but its mission of making the house gentler and more spiritual is accomplished. Sentimental. (PB)
(p. 38)
The Test of Friendship, C. A. (fl. 1887) , single work short story
Tale of male friendship surviving female perfidy. The Italian mountains witness a reunion between two friends of youth, an English traveller and the other a scholar and hermit who had lived in the area for ten years. Slowly they unfold the story of their separation by a beautiful woman they both loved and who was false to them both. An action to protect his friend from a murder charge had prompted the hermit to flee England, and a calumny implicating him in the murder prevented his friend from following and forgiving him for many years. Condensed atmosphere. (PB)
(p. 39-44)
Knew Him, single work prose
The Lord Chancellor of Ireland narrowly avoids committal to a lunatic asylum. Anecdotal. [Dramatically realised dialogue, as these recorded anecdotes are.] (PB)
(p. 44)
A Wife's Wages, single work prose
On the financial value of a wife's contribution to a marriage and her right of access to her husband's wages. (PB)
(p. 49)
Daniel in the Lion's Den, single work prose
A rich speculator's strange literal instruction to the artist commissioned to paint a picture of Daniel in the den ... Humour. (PB)
(p. 55)

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Notes:
Includes the eighth instalment of Dixon Campbell's serial fiction, 'The Heir of Crayford Abbey; or, Plot and Counterplot, a Romance of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Founded Upon Fact', pp. 31-38.
Notes:
Includes the thirteenth instalment of Marcus Clarke's serial fiction, 'His Natural Life', pp. 1-13.
Notes:
Includes the fifth instalment of C. J. M Robertson's serial fiction, 'Baby Bertie. A Nurse's Story', pp. 44-49.
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