AustLit

A lecture on the causes of corns and chillblains. (PB)

Tale of German settlers in Russia, of their beautiful daughter's preference for a handsome Russian peasant over a rich cruel burgomaster and his revenge. Includes imprisonment in Siberia. (PB)

On the evils of alcohol and intemperance; includes several vignettes; brief. (PB)

A lesson in perseverance learned from minnows swimming upstream. (PB)

Pleasant. English middle-class romance. A rising London lawyer and an honest loyal-hearted girl agree to share a friendship during a seaside visit - until another beautiful guest arrives and the true state of their hearts is revealed. (PB)

An orphaned music teacher falls in love and promises to marry a railway engineer in the very brief time before he leaves for India to work for a new comapny. A combination of suspicious circumstances lead to his arrest for murder on their wedding day and the bride spends her wedding night alone in a London hotel. Her instincts and belief in his innocence inspire her to approach their travelling companion for assistance. (PB)

English tale of romantic betrayal. A quick engagement is followed by a year's separation when Robert Headly accompanies his regiment to India. The beautiful Beatrice Latham loves him loyally but her heart is broken when she learns he has married someone else he met on the return voyage. Competently written; odd scene where the heroine avoids fainting by drinking from a flower vase. (PB)

Mysoginist sketch of a woman's demands on her weary worried husband before they go to sleep. (PB)

A rich and jealous termagent wife strangles the innocent rival for her husband's love when she learns that he is truly married to the girl and not to her. Includes an old hen-wife (cares for poultry) who is the murdress' foster-mother and both of them are in a pact with the devil who materialises in the story for a time. Odd. (PB)

A wealthy Englishman saves a beautiful little girl from a carriage accident and then meets and falls in love with her beautiful widowed American mother. She has vowed never to marry again and only little Annie's brain fever brings them together. Slight; pleasant. (PB)

Primarily on Gordon and his verse. Argues there is literature in Australia as well as cricket and attempts to annex New Guinea; and that the isolation of 'the provinces' can bring fresh spirit to the sameness of English literature. [Mentions also an article by Alexander Sutherland in the Melbourne Review October 1883, a memoir of the poet.] (PB)