Lisa's Date with Density a child from Josh Weinstein's school days who everyday would get onto the bus with a piece of toast, which had Vaseline on it. A majority of the story is a reference to the film "Rebel Without a Cause". Lisa remarks that Nelson is "like a riddle wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a vest", a reference to "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma"; this was Winston Churchill's opinion of Russia at the outbreak of the World War II. In its original broadcast, "Lisa's Date with Density" finished 63rd in ratings for the week of December 9–15,
The Mystery of a Hansom Cab later introduction, "All of the scenes in the book, especially the slums, are described from personal observation; and I passed a great many nights in Little Bourke Street, gathering material". At this time, the street had gained notoriety as a place frequented by prostitutes and criminals. "The Mystery of a Hansom Cab" was first published in Melbourne in 1886, in Britain in 1887, The author self-published the first edition of the novel. and in the United States in 1888, by G. Munro. Hume wrote an introduction to a revised edition published in 1898, and later publications have included those by