CONTENTS

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[Preface]5
[William Dean Howells]11
[Bret Harte]27
[Mark Twain]43
["Lew" Wallace]59
[George W. Cable]75
[Henry James]91
[Francis Richard Stockton]107
[Joel Chandler Harris]123
[S. Weir Mitchell]139
[Robert Grant]155
[F. Marion Crawford]169
[James Lane Allen]185
[Thomas Nelson Page]201
[Richard Harding Davis]215
[John Kendrick Bangs]231
[Hamlin Garland]247
[Paul Leicester Ford]263
[Robert Neilson Stephens]279
[Charles D. G. Roberts]299
[Winston Churchill]317