AustLit

The grief of a couple for the dead child. Small daily losses etc. (PB)

Light British romance. Elma Morns rescues Clarence Percival, heir to the Manor, from death in a fierce snowstorm on the West Cornwall coast. They are in love but his sister's determination that he should marry his cousin, and Elma's father's refusal to consent prevent them - until a terrible storm on Christmas Eve, the destruction of a lighthouse light, and a mad rescue attempt in the ocean waves and a chance reunion clear the way. Pleasant. (PB)

Constable Mohan riding to the tiny almost deserted diggings of Kyle's Gully falls in with a strange horseman - eventually revealed as Kyle himself returning home. He meets anonymously his bold and beautiful daughter and her drunkared husband, attends the local dance and sees her husband's jealousy, eventually proves he has murdered her. Interesting, for it's theme of a woman who has married the wrong man ... (PB)

A clock counts out the griefs of an old woman over her children's deaths - and as midnight strikes she too is dead. Weak. (PB)

A London cockney is released from Clerkenwell prison and finds and adopts a little boy and his bird in the park. He struggles to find work to support them all but is forced to steal once again and is released in time to hold the child as he dies. Pathos. (PB)

Humorous tale of married life and jealousy. An English couple at Ghent during a fete for the London volunteers quarrel over a pretty American girl - who the husband mistakes for his wife during the fireworks and hoists onto his shoulders for the view. Further fireworks follow. Amusing, mysoginist. (PB)

London romance of suicide and new life. A London journalist resolves to kill himself on New Year's Eve 1879 when the woman he loves unrequitedly will not see him, and he is poor and without family. The care of a poor dressmaker and a drunken cobbler save him and bring him fresh hope. Well-written, sentimentality generally contained, interesting re: suicide. (PB)

A switchboard operator interrupts a doctor's phone call with a boilerman's and the resulting advice loses him his practice. Humour. (PB)

A woman's memory of the last time she saw a wise friend of her parents' before the family left England, the story of her sad marriage and the deaths of her children and her discussion of the rustle of angel's wings that comes at death. Slight; exemplary. (PB)

A father and son surprise each other at the circus - and agree to keep mutual silence. (PB)