Cirrus@Austlit

Of Max O'Leary, one of Melbourne's 'fast young men' and his pure love for Nelly Moore, the poor flower-girl at the Eastern Market on Bourke Street. Society's gossip separates them but they meet again as she is dying in 1870. (PB)

Fairytale of Princess Adalmina and her christening gifts - a precious pearl, beauty, riches and cleverness; and a humble heart which she can only find when she loses the other gifts ... (PB)

A small town plays host to the beautiful and good Connecticut belle, Miss Ashurst. She threatens for a time to separate a pair of lovers but a mother's timely intervention restores the balance. (PB)

Anecdote of an Irish gipsy tinker who attempted to settle in a small town, and of Irish gipsies in general. (PB)

Romances - satirical - begun at Mordialloc over a summer vacation. Three Melbourne grocer's daughters, shepherded by their mother, catch their husbands. On the wedding day, the gentlemanly Thomas Dasher is confronted by his real wife and Arabella is left pining for her jilted Johnny ... (PB)

The Victorian squatter, handsome, generous Ned Dalton, loses his wealth and his fiancee when his Arab hunter falls on him during a steeplechase and loses the race. With fortunes restored in Europe he returns seven years later with his faithful groom to the outback. He finds his former love married to a poor French, disinherited by her father, and returns quickly to Europe, scornful yet loving her still. Well told, with strong descriptions of the Melbourne Hunt Club environment, etc. Dalton's adventures in Europe are rather romanticised. Includes a defence of Australian/colonial life against the quick judgements of visitors such as Trollope. (PB)

On the proper treatment of these relations; includes an extensive quote from Thackeray. (PB)

Discontinued in AJ 11.130, March 1876 (p. 679). Note in 'Answers to Correspondents' that the tale was discontinued because it was found to be infringing the true author's copyright. It had been sent in manuscript as original, hence the mistake. (PB)

Set in a small Victorian country township. A flirtatious woman drives her rough carpenter husband to leave her soon after their marriage by dallying with a local policeman. Several months later she is horribly murdered ... (PB)

Modern rendering of the myth of Psyche and Eros, begun on holiday at Hermon Springs, USA, and completed in Boston. Psyche's task is not to ask what Edward's work is ... (PB)