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Issue Details: First known date: 1887... vol. 22 no. 262 March 1887 of The Australian Journal est. 1865 The Australian Journal
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Contents

* Contents derived from the 1887 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
How the Printer Deceived Him, single work prose
A hen-pecked husband determines to enter his wife in the 'irritation' contest at the Agricultural Fair - but discovers it is 'irrigation'. Humour(!) (PB)
(p. 361)
My Boy and I, single work prose
A father recalls the nights his son fell asleep holding his hand - and now he is dead. Pathos. Small pious comfort. (PB)
(p. 362)
The Story of a Mark, single work short story
A mark made on a door to measure a boy's height witnesses the death of the family's little daughter then the mother. Pathos. (PB)
(p. 362)
The Fisherman's Wooing, single work short story romance
A holiday-maker on the New Jersey coast hears the tale of his local boatman's romance in the 1840s. How he struggled through poverty to win his sweetheart but jealousy and a misunderstanding separated them until he was nearly killed in rescuing a ship's crew in a storm. Slight. (PB)
(p. 363-365)
Lovers' Little Lies, single work prose
On the lies told by lovers 'wracked' by parting but surviving nevertheless. Satirical. (PB)
(p. 365)
Man or Phantom, single work short story
Account by an English journalist of his ghostly rescue by a wounded German officer during the Franco-German War. The phantom of his friend shoots the French guerrila who surprises the journalist at a battle outpost. 'Inexplicable' genre. (PB)
(p. 369)
A French Diamond Robbery : A True Story, Alaric Carr , single work short story
Tale of a Russian countess in Paris robbed of a pair of earrings through two separate confidence tricks of great originality - one at the Opera, one at her house. Competent. (PB)
(p. 370-371)
A Romance of Stage Life, single work short story
Romance of the English stage. A leading actor and actress are continually quarrelling until he saves her from a stage fire at the cost of his appearance and his eyes. Then true woman's love emerges ... Slight; well-paced. (PB)
(p. 380)
A Quiet Home, single work short story
Domestic tale. A husband's wish that his wife and children be more like a neighbour's family evaporates when their chidren die quickly from scarlet fever due to their system of childrearing. Pathos. (PB)
(p. 383-384)
A Ribbon, single work prose
A doctor's trifling kindness to a child in a London hospital comforts her last days. Brief. (PB)
(p. 384)
The Flag at Half-Mast, W. W. , single work short story
Victorian country policeman/mounted trooper William Regan is so angered by the refusal of his proposal by the widow Knights that he threatens her with revenge. She is found murdered and he is suspected - along with her son-in-law he is thought to have the best motive. But a swagman's evidence and a marked banknote solve the case. (PB)
(p. 385-390)
Legend of a Polish King, single work prose
A Casimir, elected to Poland's kingship, resigns after two years to be a peasant and sleep nights. (PB)
(p. 390)
The Duel, single work short story
Tale of an attempted fraud. A tourist at a German watering place is provoked into a duel - and persuaded to send his opponent's wife a generous cheque when he fears he has killed him. Only a chance meeting in Paris reveals the plot. Slight. (PB)
(p. 391-392)
Retribution, single work prose
Depiction of a mob lynching of a prisoner - a murderer is hung. (PB)
(p. 392)
The Man Who Came Home, single work short story
American family tale. Mark Hunter returns to Boston and New York after thirty years in China to find his sister entrapped in worldly society, and the son of his dead brother unknown. An encounter wth a poor girl at a church and later at a pawnbroker's discovers his nephew - an inventor - and Mark finds his true family ties ... Light; slightly sententious. (PB)
(p. 392-396)
Hannah's Secret, Emma C. Kummel , single work short story
Gentle horror story. A mysterious and gentle woman rents a house in a quiet village but refuses to mix with the neighbours - maintaining a friendship at a distance only with the narrator. She explains that her child is mentally diminished and can not bear strangers - but when she is discovered murdered in the house with a broken pair of handcuffs dangling from the ceiling of a back room, it is clear there was another explanation ... Well-written, interesting blend of the genteel and the terrible. (PB)
(p. 396-400)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Notes:
Includes the first instalment of 'Random Reminscences of an Old Colonist', pp. 381-383.
Notes:
Includes final instalment of C. J. M. Robertson's serial fiction, 'The Jacksons', pp. 365-368.
Notes:
Includes the second instalment of Dixon Campbell's serial fiction, 'The Heir of Crayford Abbey; or, Plot and Counterplot, a Romance of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Founded Upon Fact', pp. 373-379.
Notes:
Includes the seventh instalment of Marcus Clarke's serial fiction, 'His Natural Life', pp. 349-361.
Notes:
Includes final instalment of Karuna's 'Wild Craven's Daughter: An Australian Novel', pp. 371-373.
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