Cirrus@Austlit

On the fancies imagination builds there. (PB)

A country ball following amateur theatricals at Dr Darrell's house provides the setting for two happy engagements, but a murder in the early hours of the morning brings unahppiness to both. Includes a trial. (PB)

Melodrama of a rejected lover given to drink who sacrifices his life attempting to save his former fiancee (now married) from a fire at an up-country ball in Victoria. (PB)

A pure country love conquers, despite all Europe's pleasures and a handsome man of the world's proposals. (PB)

A Spanish story of a nobleman's marriage to a washerwoman and the murder that persuades him to enter the monastery. (PB)

A very young boy is kidnapped by Aborigines in Sydney in the 1840s some months after an Aboriginal child is accidentally killed in a boating accident on the Harbour. The boy is recovered nearly four years later from a tribe on the Maneroo (Monaro) Plain. [Account of the kidnapping of Charles Murray, nephew of the settler William Murray. Clearly factually based.] (PB)

A dark passionate and vital girl returns from her Sydney finishing school, silent, grave and self-controlled. Her fair, plain adopted sister discovers the source of her grief - she has pushed the German teacher she loved over a sea cliff in a fit of anger. But is he dead ... ? (PB)

John Middleton, second son of a large Birmingham manufacturer, determines to settle in Australia. He selects land in outback NSW, 60 - 70 miles from the nearest European. After several years he marries and has two children, who are stolen after he punishes some Aborigines for stealing cattle. He recovers them with the aid of neighbours, and they kill about 40 Aborigines in revenge. Apart from a few words from Mrs Middleton in favour of not harming the Aborigines, the tale supports the advance of settlement and the accompanying destruction of the tribes almost smugly. (PB)

Purportedly the recollections of a visit to America by a young Irishman who died not long after his sweetheart, whose parents had refused them permission to marry because of his political opinions and outspokenness. (PB)

Set on a Riverina station, before Sinclair had become a detective and was stock riding. Returning from the Maneroo he gets lost and stumbles across a derelict mansion, a ghost, and a mad shepherd who recounts a terrible dream of murder ... (PB)

Horace meets and quickly marries the beautiful Regina during a six month visit to a small town. Not long after their return to his home he discovers that she in fact loves another ... (PB)

On cruelty to animals. (PB)

Depiction of that carnivorous creature, man, before his evening dinner. (PB)