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Sylvanus Cobb (Jnr) (International) assertion Sylvanus Cobb (Jnr) i(A72639 works by)
Also writes as: Dr S Le Compton Smith ; Colonel Walter Dunlap ; Symus the Pilgrim ; Charles Castleton ; Elias Winslow ; Enoch Fitzwhistler ; Austin Burdick ; S. C. Jnr
Born: Established: 1823 Maine,
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United States of America (USA),
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Americas, ; Died: Ceased: 1887
Gender: Male
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1 Live for Something : A Sketch for Youth Sylvanus Cobb (Jnr) , 1891 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , August vol. 26 no. 315 1891; (p. 659-661) US exemplary tale - espousing the work ethic. A young man is refused by his prospective father-in-law on the grounds that he has no direction and could not provide for a wife. He finally undertakes medicine and work prospers. After performing an amputation in his home town he is finally accepted by his sweetheart's father ... Predictable. (PB)
1 The Illiterate Robber Sylvanus Cobb (Jnr) , 1890 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , March vol. 25 no. 298 1890; (p. 396) Brief tale of a Paris robber who is released from court after pleading that he could not read. He only prsented a threatening note to a gentleman that it might be read to him, not to demand his valuables or his life. Cafe narrative. (PB)
1 The Parson's Experiment Sylvanus Cobb (Jnr) , 1890 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , February vol. 25 no. 297 1890; (p. 337) A small farming community hires a parson on the basis that he bring rain to their community as desired. His promise is never tested as they can never be unanimous, but in the end come to value him for his work. Small town tale. (PB)
1 The Green-Eyed Monster Sylvanus Cobb (Jnr) , 1889 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , November vol. 25 no. 294 1889; (p. 159-161) Domestic tale. A wife's jealousy of her husband is finally vanquished when she tracks him down to a hotel and accuses him of infidelity - with her own mother. Thinly realised. (PB)
1 The Mornington Mystery Sylvanus Cobb (Jnr) , 1886 single work novella In June 1860 in Maryland USA, a story of two brothers, one a respected doctor, Herbert Trevelyan, and Arthur, the younger. They discuss the elopement of Edgar Mornington, the suitor's of Herbert's daughter Viola, and Clarice, Arthur's beloved, several months before. Herbert refuses to see Edgar but later in the day at Clarice's deathbed, learns Edgar is innocent of the elopement and subsequent desertion of Clarice. Arthur disappears mysteriously and Edgar is found shot dead and robbed. Suspicion, assisted my the chemist, a long-time enemy of Herbert's, points to Herbert as the murderer, and in his eagerness to defend Arthur he contributes to the general uncertainty. The chemist is suspected by Herbert of being Clarice's seducer and tries to approach Viola, threatening her father's conviction if she refuses. (PB)
1 The Bottomless Jug Sylvanus Cobb (Jnr) , 1886 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , July vol. 21 no. 254 1886; (p. 590-591) A Maine farmer's story of his wife's clever ruse to save him from drink and remove the mortgage from their farm. Sentimental. (PB)
1 Ruric Nevel. A Tale of the Russian Empire Sylvanus Cobb (Jnr) , 1882-1883 single work novel Opens in Russia at the close of the 17th Century. Ruric Nevel, a Moscow maker of weapons, is beloved of the lady Rosalind Valdai. Her guardian will not let them marry and desires her to marry Count Conrad Damonoff who he commissions to persuade Nevel to renounce all claims to her love. Nevel refuses and a duel ensues, Nevel winning. He is arrested for starting the duel but is able to prove to Czar Peter that he did not and that he won fairly, gaining Peter's esteem in the process. Meanwhile Rosalind's guardian wants to marry her himself against her wishes and plots to poison Damonoff - but is prevented by Nevel's sagacity. He has Nevel kidnapped but he is rescued by Vladimir. Rosalind determines to flee the Czar for assistance but the Duke prevents her. Vladimir intervenes again - finally revealing himself as Peter the Great. (PB)
1 Influence of Music : A Story of Gustavus Adolphus Sylvanus Cobb (Jnr) , 1882 single work prose
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , March vol. 17 no. 202 1882; (p. 361) Tale of Sweden's king moved to mercy by a girl's sweet singing. (PB)
1 The Dragoon's Plot; Or, the Fortunes of A Cornish Wrecker Sylvanus Cobb (Jnr) , 1881 single work short story adventure The tale opens in April 1866 on the Cornish coast where a village of legal wreckers - salvagers - are led by Eugene Boynton and his son Conrad. On the eve of a storm Eugene tells Conrad of his eighty thousand pounds inheritance from his nobly-connected mother, and the mystery surrounding his grandfather's origins. Conrad and friend Tom Cowper save Sir Peter Trevor, his daughter Julia and her servant Mary Anderson from a sinking ship and so meet their respective love matches, but Conrad's father dies from the same attempt. Conrad meets the Earl of Ashmont who is nearly on his deathbed and avoids a plot to trap him as a smuggler and proves his title. (PB)
1 The Wealth of Worth Sylvanus Cobb (Jnr) , 1881 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , June vol. 16 no. 193 1881; (p. 556-557) Stilted romance of a poor but gentlemanly tutor who falls in love with his rich, beautiful pupil and resolves to leave her. Her fond guardian intervenes. (PB)
1 Mabel's Lovers: A Heart Sketch. Sylvanus Cobb (Jnr) , 1880 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , October vol. 15 no. 185 1880; (p. 95-97) Mabel's guardian transfers the love he once felt for her mother to her ward, resolving never to tell. She has a rich young suitor for several years but just as the guardian is about to leave her to his rival, he discovers that she loves him instead. Competent, predictable. (PB)
1 His Mother's Bible! And What It Did - A Life Sketch Sylvanus Cobb (Jnr) , 1880 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , September vol. 15 no. 184 1880; (p. 40-42) Drink ruins Tom Byworth's life but his wife refuses to desert him. Attempting to sell his mother's bible for a drink to a friendly hotel-keeper results in a pact between them - Tom to stop drinking and the hotel-keeper to stop selling ... Prosaic, sentimental. (PB)
1 True Second Light : A Friends's Story Sylvanus Cobb (Jnr) , 1880 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , July vol. 15 no. 182 1880; (p. 583-585) A promise to his friend's wife and an apparition on the battlefield guide the officer/narrator to the woods where his friend is lying injured. US Civil War tale. (PB)
1 The Eleventh Commandment S. C. Jnr , 1880 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , May vol. 15 no. 180 1880; (p. 478) Anecdote of hospitality shown to an Archbishop wrecked off the Welsh coast in 1640. (PB)
1 A Curious Circumstance Sylvanus Cobb (Jnr) , 1879 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , November vol. 15 no. 174 1879; (p. 142-143) Probably US; an army captain's account of his colonel's premonition of the one time he would be wounded in battle. Psychic curiosity. (PB)
1 Anecdote of Mlle. Rachel S. C. Jnr , 1877 single work prose
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , October vol. 13 no. 149 1877; (p. 85-86) The celebrated actress' nose is saved from being irredeemably frozen in St Petersburg by a stranger rubbing it with snow. (PB).
1 Wolfgang; Or, the Wrecker's Beacon 1876 series - author novella adventure The ship Pathfinder of New York bound for Copenhagen encounters a storm in the North Sea. Her young captain, Maurice Lester, commands her through dreadful days of storm but the ship is finally wrecked by a false beacon which leads it onto rocks off the Northumberland coast. Lester, the lone survivor, meets the legendary Wolfgang, the wrecker and is saved from being murdered only by the intervention of Wolgang's son, Osald. Oswald wears to help him, but Lestesr discovers that they both love the same woman - engaged to Lester but thought lost at sea four years before - when the wreckers in fact abducted her ... (PB)
1 1 The Plot for a Life : Or, The Pilot and the Contrabandist. A Story of Ship and Shore. Sylvanus Cobb (Jnr) , 1875 single work short story Paul Moulin, lighthouse-keeper on the island of St Michel off the coast of France fostered a child, Ernest, rescued from a storm 4 years before the tale commences. On that night another ship is wrecked leaving 4-year-old Estelle the only survivor. Paul takes him into his home too. The return of Ernest's putative father, a contrabandist, wrests Ernest temporarily from the island but he returns a few hours later - along with his 'father's' threat to return and claim him again. Eight years pass but he does return and forces Ernest to join his smuggling ship. (PB)
1 Prescription Extraordinary Sylvanus Cobb (Jnr) , 1874 single work prose
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , August vol. 9 no. 111 1874; (p. 666) A doctor's attempts to cure a patient of overindulgence. (PB)
1 The Money Diggers Sylvanus Cobb (Jnr) , 1874 single work prose
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , August vol. 9 no. 111 1874; (p. 656) How Teddy Mulchany got a cellar dug in a very short time - digging for money. (PB)
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