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Issue Details: First known date: 1876... vol. 12 no. 138 November 1876 of The Australian Journal est. 1865 The Australian Journal
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* Contents derived from the 1876 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
The Lover's Ruse ; or, Modern Cinderella, Europa , single work short story
An orphaned niece is a household drudge for her aunt and her daughters - but the rich squatter sees through her lowly position ... Slight, schematic. (PB)
 (p. 119-121)
Fortune and Misfortune, Patrick Shanahan , single work short story
Jerky tale of a half-brother and sister, children of a Tasmanian convict, who meet coincidentally in Kilmore, Victoria, and of their subsequent lives. (PB)
 (p. 121-123)
Breeze Among the Smiths, single work prose
A letter is directed to Mr John Smith instead of Mrs Smith, and he is convinced his wife is carrying on an affair. There is another mistake to discover, however ... (PB)
 (p. 123)
At the Altar : An Old Shipmaster's Story, single work short story
Childhood sweethearts marry and are happy sailing together. He has to leave her in England when she has a child and he is lost on an island for three years. He returns after four months with a fortune from Australia's goldfields to find that poverty has driven her to the altar with another ... (PB)
 (p. 124-126)
Jim's Letter, single work short story
A mother's inteference with a letter from her son's sweetheart causes them grief and tragedy. Set in a Victorian country township. (PB)
 (p. 126-127)
Faithful Tom, W. W. , single work short story
The meeting of the Land Board in a country district of Victoria precipitates a quarrel between two suitors for the same girl. Several hours later one of them is feared murdered and suspicion rests on the other. Tom Turner, a boy hired from Victoria's Industrial (Reform) schools helps find the real killer. (PB)
 (p. 127-136)
Born to the Purple, M. E. M. , single work short story
Tale of a goddess reared by doves and shepherds, married to a noble warrior whom she assists and eventually leads in battle, separated from by a jealous king to whom she returns her husband's sufferings. The mythic and the sentimental combined. (PB)
 (p. 136-138)
Mr Crucible's Sermons, M. K. D. , single work short story
A clergyman's sermons against the devil repeatedly and mysteriously disappear. With the help of two deacons it is proved not to be the devil's own work but a somnambulistic feat ... Light. (PB)
 (p. 139-140)
Little Charley's Case, single work short story
A country doctor discovers the source of a child's illness in the inheritance prospects of his uncle. (PB)
 (p. 140-141)
The Old Maid, single work prose
On the unfair treatment of single women in literature. (PB)
 (p. 141)
The Rector's Second Daughter, single work short story satire
Set in Dumbley, Clayshire, a satiric tale of fishing for a husband. A newly appointed coast-guard captain is hooked at billiards, reeled in at a picnic, and landed at the rectory. (PB)
 (p. 142-146)
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Notes:
Includes the second instalment of serial fiction, 'Nina Cavallon; Or, the Foundling's Bride. A Persian Romance', pp. 109-117.
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