AustLit

Romance emerges from a drive when three young girls, an old maid and an aged horse encounter difficulties in visiting relations. Set in the English countryside at harvest time. (PB)

Stories of two 'detectives' - the narrator and the mail guard - and the captures of their respective suspects. Set largely around the British railways - London and the provinces. (PB)

Reminiscence. Account of the death of one man and the escape of two others from an Aboriginal attack experienced en route to the Ovens gold rush. (PB)

Account of 8 hours in the water off the Australian coast - lost overboard from the 'Omar Pasha' and picked up by the steamer 'Yarra Yarra'. (PB)

Unevenly written light piece on the unavailing efforts of a man avowedly dedicated to peace to actually find it in his life, his work or his marriage. Strained battering tone.

Set in Dinglewood again, the English village is this time the scene of revelations of Lady Denzil's past - of the child she had to abandon as an infant in order to marry Sir Thomas, and a reunion with her granddaughter. Moving and well-paced despite its English social concerns and near-melodramatic sentimentality. (PB)

A baby abandoned in a bundle of clothes is looked after by a penurious widow and daughter and their loyal Irish maid. In time she introduces the orphaned daughter to her future husband. Suburban setting. (PB)

Legend concerning Owen, a repenting knight, who survives a night in St Patrick's cave in Ireland, witnessing the torments of the damned and the joys of the blessed. (PB)

Experiences of a penny from its minting through all houses, miser's hands, a starving man's grasp etc, finally resting in an Australian antiquary's coin collection. (PB)

A husband and wife change roles for a week, the wife controlling the money and all household decisions. Slightly preachy exposition of the humiliations suffered by women 'protected' by their husbands. (PB)