CHAPTER V. THE INSTRUCTIVE GROUP
The Moral Story
Edgeworth's Stories for Children (Bohn), Moral Stories (Tauchnitz), Murad the Unlucky (C. N. L.); Gesta Romanorum (P. W. C., Bohn); Forty Tales from the "Decameron" (Morley's Universal Library); Rasselas, by Samuel Johnson (P. W. C., A. B., Burt); Voltaire's Tales (Bohn); Cervantes' Novelas Ejemplares, translated into English by W. K. Kelly (Bohn); Essays and Tales, from Addison (C. N. L.); Essays and Tales, from Steele (C. N. L.); Twenty-three Tales, from Tolstoy (W. C.); Hawthorne's Twice Told Tales (Houghton). Leopoldo Alas's Cuentos Morales (in Spanish), and Emilia Pardo-Bazán's Novelas Ejemplares (also in Spanish).
The Pedagogical Commentary and Story
Pestalozzi's Leonard and Gertrude (Heath); Ascham's Scholemaster (Heath); Machiavelli's Prince (Oxford, W. C.); Thomas Elyot's The Boke Named the Governour, edited by Croft, 2 vols. (London, 1883); Ascham's Toxophilus (Arber's Reprints); Walton's Compleat Angler (editions innumerable); Castiglione's Courtier; Froebel: The Mottoes and Commentaries of Froebel's Mother Play (Appleton).
The Story of Present Day Realism
Kipling's Life's Handicap and Plain Tales from the Hills (Doubleday); William Carleton's Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry, edited by D. J. O'Donoghue, 4 vols. (London and New York, 1896); Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent and Other Irish Tales (A. B.); O. Henry's Trimmed Lamp and Other Stories of the Four Million; B. Matthew's Vignettes of Manhattan (Harper); W. D. Howells' A Modern Instance (Houghton), The Lady of the Aroostook, The Rise of Silas Lapham, etc.; Israel Zangwill's Children of the Ghetto (Macmillan); Upton Sinclair's The Jungle (1906); Jacob A. Riis's Children of the Tenements; Henry James' Daisy Miller (Harpers). Count Tolstoy's method is always realistic, although his types are extremely varied; see A Russian Proprietor and Other Stories (Crowell). In method at least, most of the stories of Bret Harte, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, and Hamlin Garland are of this type. In his Kriegsnovellen (Berlin, 1899) Detlev von Liliencron gives vigorous and sincere pictures of the Franco-German war, though he sees with the eye of the poet and selects his material.