AustLit

A young country doctor in England is blackballed from joining the gentleman's cricket club, but they are repaid by the heiress who becomes his wife. (PB)

A judge decides between two suitors for his daughter's hand by their treatment of a poor Irishwoman to whom they owe money. (PB)

On the fifty female applicants for a position of trust and the man who interviewed them at a Melbourne hotel. (PB)

On the diggings near Ballarat in 1857, a police officer loses a prisoner between the lock-up and the court. He persuades another to take his place. (PB)

A tale of two meetings with an American sheik in the Syrian desert. The American narrator hears of his exile from his native land following two duels in Virginia; visits his sister and his beloved there; and is saved by the sheik during a fierce desert battle after his return. Very dramatic, perhaps factually based. (PB)

A widow meets her second husband through her maid's ruse to cover up a breakage caused while dusting. (PB)

A bigmaist, thief and murderer is discovered in an heiress' disguise in the same house as a woman he had falsely married years before in England. Disguise and flirtation interesting. (PB)

An old man narrates the tale of his youth to three young men who ask him to share a drink; of his motherless wild childhood and the death of his fiancee through his drunkenness. A well told moral tale - sentiment is not overwhelming. (PB)

Reflections on preparations for an army church parade on a Sunday in India - the contrast between lives of battle in a foreign land and the refreshment of the service. (PB)

Tale, apparently factual, of a humble workman in Messina, Sicily, who became a vigilante, assassinating local criminals etc. (PB)

The narrator's attempts to assist her younger sister to grow during her childhood in Jamaica. (PB)