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Issue Details: First known date: 1888... vol. 23 no. 272 January 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.
Happy New Year, M. L. (Mrs) Rayne , single work prose
On the various effects a heartfelt New Year's greeting may have on a suffering heart. (PB)
(p. 239)
An Unmasked Sharper : A Study from the French, single work short story
A father gambles with his dissolute son for his death and the family honour, near ruined by the young man's cheating at cards and his mother's indulgence. Heavy style. (PB)
(p. 242-243)
The House on the Corner, George Downing Sparks , single work short story
Ghost tale. An American commercial traveller unable to find other lodgings in London spends a night in a haunted house where he sees a ghostly murderer dispose of his victim. The traveller is ill for several months with relatives before he can return to the US. (PB)
(p. 243-244)
The Law of Arrest : A Tale of Olden Days, Founded on Facts, single work prose
Satirical exposure of the injustices which can be worked through the English Law of Arrest for debt ... Told through person of a foreign merchant falsely arrested for debt to allow time for his debtor, and English ship's captain, to escape. (PB)
(p. 245)
Friction of Social Life, single work prose
Forbearance and tact are the oil of social intercourse. (PB)
(p. 245)
Ralph's Revelation : A Christmas Story, single work short story
A banker's son chooses Christmas Day to confess to his parents that he is married and has a son. His expectations of anger are confounded when he discovers they already know of it. (PB)
(p. 246-247)
How to Do It, single work prose
Mr Fogg is completely ignored in choosing a suit. Humour. (PB)
(p. 252)
The Torture of the Clock, Lionel Sparrow , single work short story horror
Horror tale set in underground vaults, probably in Europe. Tells of the fiendish torture of the narrator by the evil Zaroni who is himself destroyed by the fate prepared for his victim. Includes an account of the terrible deaths of the narrator's parents and the ingenious employment of their remains in the narrator's sufferings. Macarbe and somewhat disjointed story; full of deformity and cruelly calculated revenge. (PB)
(p. 253-255)
Too Late, single work short story romance
Blighted romance. Tennyson's poem reminds Margaret Wyeth of her own life, the death of her mother, and finally that of her lover, a soldier, who died of his wounds before she could arrive. Slight melancholy piece. (PB)
(p. 263)
A Modest Monarch, single work prose
Anecdote of Frederick V, King of Denmark, and his humility with a class of village children. (PB)
(p. 263)
Grey House Mystery, single work short story romance
Mock ghost tale and romance. The courtship of a doctor's daughter and her departure from her cheerful home to the home of her new husband (also a doctor.) On Christmas Eve she and her dying mother-in-law are scared by a 'ghost', which proves only to be the crashing of a broken clock. (PB)
(p. 264-266)
Not Next Christmas, single work prose humour
A husband receives a bill for his Christmas presents. (PB)
(p. 266)
The Blighted Meadow, W. W. , single work short story
Fratricide on a beautifully drained Victorian farm when a younger brother learns he is illegitemate and has no claim on his older brother's property to enable him to marry. Both love the same woman but when she marries the younger brother, though unaware of the murder, her happiness is disturbed by a ghost. Her father helps uncover the mystery and takes her home, leaving her husband to suicide. Includes a faithful dog and an untrustworthy murderous farmhand. (PB)
(p. 267-273)
Gibbon and Pitt, single work prose
Dramatised account of the encounter at a dinner party of the historian and the future parliamentarian. (PB)
(p. 273)
A Girl's Folly, single work short story romance
Alison Reece nearly loses her faithful gentlemanly farmer fiancee when an aristocratic youth flirts with her. She only realises her false pride when he falls over a cliff in a thick mist and, believing him dead, she suffers brain fever. Pleasantly predictable. (PB)
(p. 274-278)
Thoughts, 'Yorick' (fl. 1888) , single work prose
Thoughts on a child's death prompted by a stroll in a NSW country graveyard. Sentiment; mother-love etc. (PB)
(p. 279)
A Drawn Game, single work short story detective
A Liverpool merchant swindles a Jewish shipping firm of £20 000, and when their detective tracks him to Spain enjoys a pleasure trip at his expense before refusing to join him on a yachting trip - which would have returned him to England. Clever, humorous, slight. (PB)
(p. 279-282)
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