TEN REPRESENTATIVE CHARACTER STUDIES
“The Captain’s Vices,” François Coppée, translated in Ten Tales by Coppée.
“The Incarnation of Krishna Mulvaney,” Rudyard Kipling, in Soldiers Three.
“A New England Nun,” Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, in volume of same title.
“The Old Gentleman of the Black Stock,” Thomas Nelson Page, Harper’s Magazine, Oct., 1894.
“The Sick-a-Bed Lady,” Eleanor Hallowell Abbott, in volume of same title.
“The Insurgent,” Ludovic Halévy, translated in Short-Story Masterpieces.
“Caybigan,” James Hopper, in volume of same title.
“The Liar,” Henry James, in Short-Story Classics, American.
“Editha,” W. D. Howells, in Harper’s Novelettes.
“Our Sermon Taster,” Ian Maclaren, in Beside the Bonnie Briar Bush.
FOOTNOTES:
[27] Copyright, 1911, by J. B. Lippincott Co., and used by permission.
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PSYCHOLOGICAL STUDIES
Markheim.—Robert Louis Stevenson
On the Stairs.—Arthur Morrison
He [the author] can sometimes rouse our intense curiosity and eagerness by the mere depiction of a psychological state, as Walter Pater has done in the case of Sebastian Storck and other personages of his Imaginary Portraits. The fact that “nothing happens” in stories of this kind may be precisely what most interests us, because we are made to understand what it is that inhibits action.—Bliss Perry, A Study of Prose Fiction.