AustLit

How Michael's intended, Katherine, goes to England and thence to Australia where she is ruined. And how Michael dreams three times of finding gold in Australia and follows his dreams to the Victorian diggings. (PB)

Short anecdote of a gallant French soldier who saves a Jew's daughter from Russian soldiers, and of his reward. (PB)

A bereaved husband meets an old acquaintance in an unspecified city. The acquaintance is a Rosicrucian who takes him through an ordeal with spirits and demons that he may see his wife again. The husband is determined to learn more but dies on the voyage. Supposedly a manuscript found on the unidentified body of a gentleman passenger died on the SS Tyre between Alexandria and Smyrna. Found by Henry Lloyd, M. D. (PB)

A wife supplies the missing idea needed to complete her chemist husband's invention. Includes a moral on the intellectual equality of women. (PB)

A theft in a St Kilda household reveals secrets of Mrs Latham and an attempt to blacken her governess' reputation. (PB)

On the discomforts and vulgarities of stage life for a respectable but poor vain and untalented young woman. Set in an Australian city, the moral tales refers briefly to the advice columns of the Journal. (PB)

Short humorous address in negro diction on the advantages of early closing. (PB)

On the 'companionship' offered by fellow boarders. Character sketches mainly. (PB)

Set on the Victorian diggings, a romance of gold-seeking, a young girl's rescue from a shaft, reverses in fortune; and a marriage. (PB)

An educated wife retrieves herself from her mother-in-law's contempt when she is able to support the family through selling her paintings. (PB)

Moral tale on the decline of an unloving wife through her husband's absence, her visit to a fortune teller, her search for a new husband and subsequent desertion. (PB)

Humorous tale of the results of advertising for housework or teaching in return for lodgings, by a lady. Several references to the Australian Journal are included. Lively. (PB)

On the difficulty of ever coming to know some people. (PB)

Humorous account of a bachelor's attempts to soothe and feed his sister's baby, and the public humiliation he suffered. (PB)

George refuses to acknowledge or assist his sister Agnes Cleal who married against his wishes years before and is paying a harsh price for the deed.