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Issue Details: First known date: 1877... vol. 12 no. 145 June 1877 of The Australian Journal est. 1865 The Australian Journal
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* Contents derived from the 1877 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Ned O'Brien's New Year's Dinner, C. L. (fl. 1877-1899) , single work short story
Dollie Varden, a ballet-girl in the theatre in the 1860s has a New Year's dinner with the theatre call boy, thinking of her separated doctor husband. An accident during the pantomime reunites them ... (PB)
 (p. 495-496)
The Three Isabels, single work short story
Wife, daughter and grand-daughter of the rich but stern Allan Moran leave him alone - the first dying in childbirth, the second eloping with an adventurer, and the third he refuses to see until he is sick, old and alone when she returns to comfort him. Never escapes generalised narrative - somehow removed, foggy. (PB)
 (p. 497-498)
False and True, M. C. V. , single work short story
In a seaside village (probably English), a retired sea captain is obliged to bring his daughter home when the aunt who had been caring for her died. She quickly improves his life but when he decides to reward her with a husband he finds she has her own ideas. Pleasant. (PB)
 (p. 504-506)
The Round Rock : Or, Born to the Purple, W. W. , single work short story
Innocent Grace Leaston discovers her true name, love, and death with the advent of the noble Lester Synnot to her harsh father's bush farm near the Coliban River. Includes ghostly apparitions bushrangers and a revenge plot.
 (p. 516-522)
A Rebellion Anecdote, single work prose
Account of Shay's Rebellion in Massachusetts, USA soon after the American War of Independence (1786-87). (PB)
 (p. 522)
The Three Friends, E. R. (fl. 1877) , single work short story
Patchy account of the reunion of three girls from Napoleon I's school of the Legion of Honour near Paris - and of the reverses of fortune they each experience. (PB)
 (p. 523)
Not Too Late, P. B. M. , single work short story
A flirt is redeemed by a young man's death, and finds her true love. Slight. (PB)
 (p. 524-525)
Michael Angelo : A Tradition of Italy, E. B. C. , single work short story
Two Venetian lovers are united through Michaelangelo's intervention - and the gift of a drawing. (PB)
 (p. 525-526)
Slang Phraseology, single work prose
Examples of slang. Does not seem to be peculiarly Australian. (PB)
 (p. 526)
Broken Upon the Wheel, single work short story
Brief account of the revival of a French highwayman broken upon the wheel at Orleans in 1747, and his life with no legs and one arm - still robbing and murdering. (PB)
 (p. 527)
A Little Bohemian, single work prose
The rise of a ragged Boston girl to be wife of a merchant and mother of a near friend of the Queen of England. (PB)
 (p. 531)
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Notes:
Includes the third instalment of 'The Demon of Brockenheim; Or, The Enchanted Ring', pp. 487-495.
Notes:
Includes the second instalment of Europa's 'Saved at the Brink', pp. 499-504.
Notes:
Includes the first instalment of Riley's 'Out Oars', pp. 507-513.
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