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Issue Details: First known date: 1893... vol. 28 no. 333 February 1893 of The Australian Journal est. 1865 The Australian Journal
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Contents

* Contents derived from the 1893 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
A Careful Test : The Story of a Character, single work short story romance
An English maiden meets a recuperating cricketer. Her test of his love by sending a fake telegram from a fascinating French widow seems to reveal infidelity - until he reveals that it miscarried and he was called back to France for a cricket match ... (PB)
(p. 297-298)
How I Was Saved, Esther A. Lowden , single work short story adventure
A broken engagement is eventually repaired after a plucky heroine is near-murdered by a burglar whom she wounds with a pistol. Her suitor and his savage bloodhound rescue her from the men's attack ... Includes sick-bed scenes. (PB)
(p. 298-301)
His Cousin Pauline, single work short story romance
A marriage is arranged between an English gentleman and his French cousin which both refuse. But their acquaintance at balls and other events leads to love. (PB)
(p. 302-304)
A Valentine's Day Romance, single work short story romance
An elderly ex-army captain proposes to his landlady who he mistakes for her sister. (PB)
(p. 310)
My Engagement, single work short story romance
Set during a country house party. A bachelor consents to shave off his moustache for amateur theatricals to win the hand of his beloved. After the play he discovers that he has lost her to his friend - he did not shave his moustache himself but was shaved under the influence of choloroform from her handkerchief. (PB)
(p. 311-312)
Story of a Birthright, single work short story
Life and romance of the younger son of a public executioner. The shadow of the hereditory office hangs heavy over his solitary childhood and career as a journalist in Madrid. He falls in love with the sister of his only friend but on the eve of their wedding has to flee England as his older brother and his son are accidentally killed. (PB)
(p. 313-315)
A Story of Last Christmas Eve, single work short story romance
Courtship begins when a man assists a woman to find a doctor for her mother. They lose touch but then are reunited through the Tit-Bits literary competition. (PB)
(p. 316)
Love's Messenger, single work short story romance
Romance via carrier pigeon. A medical student becomes an unwitting third party to the courtship by correspondence between lovers banished until the unhappy suitor can find a well paid job. The student with the help of his merchant banker's daughter helps him find a job as book-keeper and the pair are married. (PB)
(p. 317-320)
A Russian Ghost Story, single work short story mystery
The Russian Empress Elizabeth finds a phantom counterpart has taken possession of the new Winter Palace before her - she confronts it, and dies 8 weeks later. (PB)
(p. 320)
Robert Kent's Vow, single work short story
Domestic. A farmer's wife dies of over-work and lack of affection - her husband discovering his neglect too late. (PB)
(p. 327)
A Child Wife : Or, Miss Meadow's Valentine, H. B. , single work short story romance
Romance between a governess and the headmaster of a small grammar school. They are married through a valentine sent as a practical joke but several months of misunderstanding pass before mutual love is confessed. (PB)
(p. 328-333)
A Christmas Present, single work short story
Tale of Paris during the siege. The humbug of a captain of franc-tireurs who woos the daughter of a cloth-merchant away from her father's head clerk is exposed by the narrator's Christmas present of a live bomb shell - of chocolate. (PB)
(p. 333-334)
The Fading of a Fan, single work short story
Romance of a society woman told by a broken and dying fan. Its mistress scorned all suitors but when she ruined an honest man's life she became a nun. (PB)
(p. 334)
Joe the Hawker, W. W. , single work short story
A travelling hawker is murdered between the shafts of his wagon and suspicion points to Bill Carrol, hired man at the Martin's farm and engaged to their daughter Ellen. Mr Martin opposes the match - and when he is thrown from his horse confesses to the crime on his deathbed. Local constable and detective from Melbourne; wedding silk spotted with blood; suspect's criminal recrod; husband-wife discord. (PB)
(p. 335-341)
Christmas in a Safe, single work short story adventure
A Liverpool clerk is accidentally locked in a safe over Christmas frustrating his plans to spend it with his fiancee. He scares off some burglars and is arrested himself ... (PB)
(p. 341-342)

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Notes:
Includes first instalment of 'The Mystery of Big Oakey', pp. 291-296.
Notes:
Includes fourth instalment of 'Fernbrook's Double : A Romance of Maoriland', pp. 321-326.
Notes:
Includes the tenth instalment of Mrs Anna Boulter's 'Jack and I', pp. 305-309.
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