TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES
In the plain text version words in Italics are denoted by _underscores_ and bold text like =this=.
The book cover was modified by the Transcriber and has been added to the public domain.
A number of words in this book have both hyphenated and non-hyphenated variants. For the words with both variants present the one more used has been kept.
Obvious punctuation and other printing errors have been corrected.
“Havelok had all he wanted to eat.”
MODERN ESSAYS
AND STORIES
A BOOK TO AWAKEN APPRECIATION OF
MODERN PROSE, AND TO DEVELOP
ABILITY AND ORIGINALITY IN WRITING
EDITED, WITH INTRODUCTION, NOTES, SUGGESTIVE
QUESTIONS, SUBJECTS FOR WRITTEN IMITATION, DIRECTIONS
FOR WRITING, AND ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS
BY
FREDERICK HOUK LAW, Ph.D.
Head of the Department of English in the Stuyvesant High School,
New York City, Editor of Modern Short Stories, etc.
NEW YORK
THE CENTURY CO.
COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY THE CENTURY CO.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THE
RIGHT TO REPRODUCE THIS BOOK, OR
PORTIONS THEREOF, IN ANY FORM. 3120