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Issue Details: First known date: 1887... vol. 23 no. 269 October 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.
The Princess de Lamballe, single work short story
Account of the violent death of the princess at the hands of the French Revolutionary Mob. (PB)
 (p. 72)
A Twilight Visit, single work short story
A careless bohemian actor and his young friend are saved from a fiery death by the spirit of the actor's dead wife. His faith restored in the continuation of her love, he reforms his life and the friendship between the pair endures. A certain tenderness and oddity of detail saves the tale from the too familiar redemption plot. (PB)
 (p. 73-75)
In Wig and Gown, single work short story detective
Detective tale of an English noble family. Lady Hayward's personal maid and a jewel thief are discovered to be one and the same by a Scotland Yard detective - the Lady had been helped to dress for two years by a man in disguise. Light. (PB)
 (p. 75-76)
Horace Greeley, the Farmer, single work prose
A journalist's report on a farmer's club of which his city editor was the president. (PB)
 (p. 79)
Aunt Hilda, single work short story
Plain tale of a young girl, a sea captain's daughter, her love for a sailor who is drowned and her long life and death waiting for his return. Thin. (PB)
 (p. 79-80)
The Mutiny, single work short story
Tale of a peaceful mutiny on a trading barque after appalling treatment from the captain and first mate on a cruise from San Francisco to the Sandwich Islands in the 1860s. Narrated by the second mate. (PB)
 (p. 80-82)
My Serenader, C. D. , single work short story
The tale of a maiden aunt to her young and pretty niece, illustrating how romantic thoughts may be based on total misconceptions. Exemplary, lightly humorous common-sensical tale. (PB)
 (p. 82-83)
Friendship's Broken Ties, single work prose
On the barriers death raises to repairing friendship - and so appreciating it while we may. (PB)
 (p. 83)
Gone to the Bad, single work short story
The son of a worthy farming couple goes to the city and after a few years is mixed up in a gambling murder. The news kills his mother and he returns a repentant outcast fleeing the world and finally his father. (PB)
 (p. 89)
Mr Ephraim Brown's Wooing, Olive Green , single work short story
An old bachelor businessman decides to marry and - finding the two young ladies he addresses very pragmatically unwilling to accept him - approaches his widowed housekeeper. Lightly ironic romance with touches of spirit. Humour. (PB)
 (p. 90-92)
Lessons In Death, W. W. , single work short story

Elderly Melbourne gentleman, Mr Sefton, meets a beautiful young girl in black at Melbourne cemetery and learns from her of the mother she hates who gives lessons in dying for short periods. The girl loves a nearby mourner but he together with Sefton espouses her mother as a trickster and a thief - she kills herself at a true mother's grave. (PB)

 (p. 92-98)
The Rival Singers, single work prose
On a recital before Queen Victoria in 1847 of the rival singers Giulia Grisi and Jenny Lind - and the childhood song that reconciles them. (PB)
 (p. 99)
Out of Pawn, single work short story
Ruse used by a US theatrical company's manager to escape their unpaid hotel bill and reach the next town on their tour. Humour. (PB)
 (p. 99-100)
His Little Boots, Will M. Clemens , single work prose
A father's memories of his dead infant son evoked by his first and only pair of boots. Pathos. (PB)
 (p. 100)
A Strange Experience, Basset , single work short story
Account by a deputy-sheriff of the Criminal Court (probably US) of an encounter with a murderer who had killed his wife for unfaithfulness after six years of marriage. Not only did he see the crime done through the criminal's own eyes but next day felt himself hanged too. 'Realistic' account of the super-natural. (PB)
 (p. 100-101)
Ernest Trevor's Secret, Florence B. Hallowell , single work short story
Romance of youthful folly (probably US). Ernest Trevors does not marry for several years but daily visits a young child. When his wife, a drunken vanity show girl dies from a stage fall he feels free to claim his daughter and a year later marries the girl he loves. (PB)
 (p. 102-103)
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Notes:
Includes the first instalment of G. G. Fordame's 'The Cesarewitch : A Chapter from the Record of my Life - A Racing Tale of the Old Country', pp. 84-88.
Notes:
Includes the ninth 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. 77-79.
Notes:
Includes the fourteenth instalment of Marcus Clarke's serial fiction, 'His Natural Life', pp. 59-71.
Notes:
Includes the sixth instalment of C. J. M Robertson's serial fiction, 'Baby Bertie. A Nurse's Story', pp. 103-108.
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