A lady visits Bedlam and hears there of a beautiful inmate's idolatrous love for a man who looked like her beloved painting of St Francis - and of the separation they had to bear for honour's sake. (PB)

A proud heiress loses her lover to a shopgirl who she unjustly accuses of stealing her ring and has thrown into gaol. (PB)

Humorous sketch of a Victorian farmer who trials the effect of music on his crops and chickens. (PB)

A hawker's tale of his escape from a murderous plot in a rough isolated bush hut many years before. (PB)

A trooper becomes lost in the Victorian bush near Mansfield, searching for the bushranger Harry Power - and is rescued by Power himself. Odd parallel tale of the history of the trooper's horse - the two parts not quite fitting together. Possibly autobiographically based. (PB)

The relics, history and a romance of this island in Ireland's Shannon River. (PB)

Tale of a twenty year romance. A merchant's daughter, rejected by her father and valued only as she is able to care for her infant brother, dutifully attends first her brother and then her father until - released by their deaths - she marries her faithful lover. Tedious goodness. (PB)

A sojourn at a Victorian country police station reveals an old man murdered and partially buried in his child's coffin by his younger wife and his accomplice. (PB)

On the injustice of allowing debts to build up with poor small business people who can least afford it. Includes Mrs Montgomery-Grabbles and her bills. (PB)

Set on Sydney's North Shore, young millionaire's love for a French governess is frustrated when the jealous daughter of the house arranges for her to join a touring opera company leaving for England. This perfidy is revealed when the company returns to Sydney and the sadly wasted ex-governess sings for the last time ... Well-written in parts but degenerates into conventional sentimentality. (PB)

A poor artist's daughter left penniless in Bohemian Sydney is rescued to England by her repentant grandfather, but after three years is claimed by the poor artist she loved - who is by then established in Europe. (PB)