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Issue Details: First known date: 1888... vol. 23 no. 279 August 1888 of The Australian Journal est. 1865 The Australian Journal
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Contents

* Contents derived from the , 1888 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
My Lady, Imola , single work short story romance
Romance between a jovial bachelor and an 'old maid'. Begun seven years before through a chivalric act on the train to Wodonga, a meeting in Melbourne clinches the affair - with a little help from a lady. Light; romance in prosaic guise. (PB)
(p. 646-647)
Smith was Jealous, single work short story
A jealous husband nearly murders his maid and a neighbour's coachman through circumstantial evidence. Slight; reform tale. (PB)
(p. 648)
The Cashier's Story, Alfred B. Tozer , single work short story
'Realist' account of a supernatural event. Two bank clerks avert a robbery and save one of them from a robber's gun when they share a dream of the peril facing him. Though their lodgings are far apart, their dreams communicate the danger and a warning. Slight. (PB)
(p. 654-655)
Ths Husband's Defeat, Amy Randolph , single work short story
Domestic tale. A husband's complaints about his wife's cooking as compared to his mother's are stopped by a clever stratagem which involves asking the mother to stay. Slight tale of women's management of men. (PB)
(p. 655-656)
Mystery of Miss Dormer's Will, Catherine (Mrs.) Wallace , single work short story romance
A lost will makes a young lawyer rich - but deprives his beautiful cousin of her inheritance. He resolves to locate the will - and discovers his cousin has hidden it herself in her sleep. He also discovers she is the woman he vowed to marry four years before. (PB)
(p. 656-661)
Gentle Woman's Revenge, single work prose humour
A domestic tiff in a train leads to some gentle words from the wife. (PB)
(p. 661)
My Dusky Friend, A. S. Burroughs , single work short story adventure
US frontier tale. One of a party of emigrants to California is captured by Indians near the Platte River. A dusky maiden helps him escape - and reveals herself to be a white woman who he helps to escape ... and marries. Basic plain tale. (PB)
(p. 661-662)
Two Kinds of Faith, Jennie Porter Arnold , single work short story
Romance between a secular man and a Methodist minister's daughter. Faith finally receives her father's blessing after a revival meeting. The father himself was unaware of the permission he gave - through mistaking the 'faith' he was promising. Slight; plot a little overworked. (PB)
(p. 663-664)
The Crime of Karnheim, Lionel Sparrow , single work short story mystery
Involved tale of mystery and romance. A reclusive gentleman rescues two ladies from the tide and falls in love with the beautiful Irene Grahame. Her father refuses permission to marry because of a shameful secret - and is soon after murdered. With the help of a London detective the real murderer and the real victims are uncovered, Grahame is found alive and his return rescues his daughter from the brain fever her discovery of the shameful secret has caused. Involvement of a Polish conspirator and his secret society with the blackmailing 'keeper of the shameful secret' complicate the plot further. (PB)
(p. 665-670)
Who Wins?, single work short story romance
Romance set in India. An heiress' choice of suitors depends on the outcome of a steeplechase - but to the winner do not always go the spoils. (PB)
(p. 672-673)
Romance of a Burglary, W. W. , single work short story
Somerton Roach breaks into a country residence determined to rob it, but discovers an old man nearly dying and promises to help him make out a new will disinheriting his nephew who his keeping him prisoner until he dies. In fact, Roach discovers to help him make out the will but together they rescue the prisoner. When the nephew discovers the old man's absence he - with his servant - announce that the old man had died and with the help of a discredited doctor obtain another corpse to bury in his place. At the reading of the will the uncle himself appears; his nephew succumbs to shock and dies in the grip of D.Ts; and Roach and his friend marry their sweethearts, Roach becoming the old man's heir. Sub-plot involving woman who had loved Roach but give him up for a rich richer suitor - the true nephew - at her mother's insistence. (PB)
(p. 673-681)
The Opening, Brother Gardner , single work prose
Words on meaning of Christmas, New Year and celebration. (PB)
(p. 688)
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