AustLit

A man on his way to his brother's property in the west with $3000 in his saddlebags meets with a group of suspicious looking men. Although the river is in flood he pushes on but has to spend the night in a rough cabin. Afraid of the intentions of the occupants he spends the night on the roof in the rain - and in the morning sees his brother arrive ... (PB)

On the nature of the meal and its history. (PB)

On the need of newly married women for 'that excess of flattering and petting, of which women are so fond', and their necessity of adjusting to men's true nature - while men learn to be patient. (PB)

A society woman's report of a theft of diamonds reveals her to be an innocently bigamous wife and an inveterate gambler. The cost to her husband, his true wife and herself is all her reward for jealousy and attempted revenge. (PB)

On a young man who wished to be a poet, to marry by Easter and to live upon his poetry, but he can not think of a fresh subject. He sees the beauty of the everyday with the aid of an old wise woman but can not do so alone - so he becomes a critic on her advice. (PB)

A newly married couple through his family's displeasure at the match emigrate from Melbourne to the country. After years on the diggings, and a period of dire poverty and some humiliation, they strike a nugget and buy a farm on the Lodden. Australia has become their home. (PB)

Hobart-Town on Regatta Day; the landscape and public buildings including the Public Library.

Lillian, a sophisticated girl, holidays in unfashionable Briarbanks for her health and there meets the homespun handsome John Yarmouth. Plain and uncultured as he is she will not marry him. Then her face is scarred and her other lovers fall away but still she will not marry him, fearing pity. After 8 years she is 30, her face has healed and her lovers come back. John proposes again ... (PB)

Description of the private life of Emperor Napoleon III. Opens with reflections on the life of a journalist. (PB)

Reminiscence. On the cleverness and faithfulness of his two guide dogs in London. (PB)

Reminiscence. On the cleverness and faithfulness of his two guide dogs in London. (PB)

A coach breakdown in the US countryside introduces the passengers to a beautiful young woman caring for an invalid, and they eventually hear her story. (PB)

On the cruelties of little boys. (PB)