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Issue Details: First known date: 1885... vol. 20 no. 240 May 1885 of The Australian Journal est. 1865 The Australian Journal
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Contents

* Contents derived from the 1885 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Wasn't Libellous, single work prose humour
A man's desire to sue a newspaper is useless because the accusations are true. Forced. (PB)
(p. 470)
King Solomon and the Blacksmith, single work prose
King Solomon decides the blacksmith is King of Mechanics because he makes not only his own tools but those of the other mechanics too. (PB)
(p. 471)
Henniker's Downfall, H. R. D. , single work short story romance
English cross-class romance. An English society gentleman determines to marry a Manchester cotton merchant's daughter to restore his fortunes. Once he meets her he falls in love but she refuses to marry him because of the scorn he had shown for her father in their first meeting. He has by then come to honour the worthy man ... and all is eventually settled happily. (PB)
(p. 473-475)
Grey Woman of the Moor, single work short story horror
Ghost story of Dartmoor. A Christmas visitor to a lonely inn on the 20th of December encounters a mysterious woman who is the ghost of a lady disappointed in love 140 years before. Comfortable tale with some interest. (PB)
(p. 476-477)
Major Wagstaff's Wig, single work short story romance
Humorous romance of two old bachelors in an English village who both vie for the hand of a merry rich widow. The mischievous intervention of William Newtown's nephew in substituting a fiery red wing for his opponent, the major's, usual black one just before a New Year's Ball decides the issue. (PB)
(p. 478-479)
The Mystery of My Life, C. S. O. , single work short story mystery romance
A young girl, her life shadowed by a nameless secret, disovers at last that she has a mad twin sister when she is mistaken for her. This discovery leaves her free to marry her childhood lover. Pleasant; unlikely in parts. (PB)
(p. 480-483)
A Scapegoat, single work short story
Humorous case of mistaken identity at Baden-Baden when an English gentleman confuses a picture of a wanted female thief with that of his fiancee. Giving the wrong photographs to a detective eventually results in the arrest of his beloved with her mother. Slight. (PB)
(p. 483-485)
A Strange Story, single work short story
US anti-gambling tale. The story of the former owner of a gambling house, a client who eventually kills himself when he had lost it all, and the gambler's wife who accused the owner of murder, causing him to repent and change his life. Brief. (PB)
(p. 491)
The Goblin Turkey, single work short story humour
Domestic tale of newly married life. An Irish maid's ignorance of how to kill a turkey results in a plucked carcass coming to life and scaring the household in the middle of the night. (PB)
(p. 491)
An Adventure of the Early Days of Tasmania, Asaphides , single work short story adventure
Apparent reminiscence of the pursuit and capture of a penal officer by escaped convicts turned bushrangers in Tasmania's early settlement times. Includes description of his flight into a vast underground warren of caves; one convict's murderous bitterness; the effective pleadings of a girl captured from her parent's farm; an old convict's mercy; and a young convict's nobility of stature and character in assisting them to escape against great opposition. Well written with a sense of 'genuine' Australian narrative missing from most of the few remaining Australian tales - largely romances imitative of the British and American tales increasingly published by the Australian Journal. (PB)
(p. 493-498)
Rondafacio's Portrait, S. J. Smith , single work short story
Tale of the harshness of mechanical justice. An artist and his household in the valley of Deladracdemendio famous for their veracity. One night a portrait is daubed with black paint and no-one confessing - the artist uses his truth wheel to discover the guilty party. Shortly before executing his beauteous elder daughter for the crime the artist sleeps and reveals that he had done the deed himself while asleep. (PB)
(p. 499)
A Narrow Escape, G. M. , single work short story adventure
Tale of the Snowy River and Gippsland area. Two cousins love the same woman, and a bushfire tempts one of them to leave his sleeping companion to his fate in their bush hut. Only the sight of the terrible flames nearing the hut awaken him to his crime, for he has been drinking, and he turns back ... Description of dry countryside etc are evocative, plot predictable. (PB)
(p. 503-504)
An Untold War Story, Sarah B. Rose , single work short story
US Civil War tale. A night at the theatre seeing 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' elicits the story of the day he was pursued by bloodhounds from an army colonel. Set in the South, the colonel was then very young and 'deserted' rather than face cruel punishment from an unfair officer. Unusual perspective of a war story. (PB)
(p. 503-504)
Blame It All On Me, single work prose
A railway engineer rushing home to hear the fate of his sick child causes an accident - and in death meets her again. Well-paced. (PB)
(p. 504)
Charr's Pool, W. W. , single work short story
An old couple, lighthouse-keeper's on Australia's eastern coast, have raised a girl rescued from the shipwreck which killed her mother. Her father is retiring anonymously to meet her, and when she greets him lovingly once he declares his identity, the young telegraph operator whom she has spurned is so enraged that he drowns her in a sea pool the next day ... (PB)
(p. 505-512)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Notes:
Includes the fifth instalment of Karuna's serial fiction 'Vivienne: A Story of Australia", pp. 486-490.
Notes:
Includes the eleventh instalment of 'Lord Darkwood's Crime; or, The Mystery of Dunholm Castle', p. 465-470.
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