ATLANTIC NARRATIVES

Modern Short Stories

EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
CHARLES SWAIN THOMAS, A. M.
Head of Department of English, Newton (Mass.) High School
Lecturer in the Harvard Summer School

The Atlantic Monthly Press
BOSTON

Copyright, 1918, by
THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY PRESS, INC.

CONTENTS
PAGE
[Introduction][vii]
[The Preliminaries]Cornelia A. P. Comer[1]
[Buttercup-Night]John Galsworthy[22]
[Hepaticas]Anne Douglas Sedgwick[30]
[Possessing Prudence]Amy Wentworth Stone[56]
[The Glory-Box]Elizabeth Ashe[68]
[The Spirit of the Herd]Dallas Lore Sharp[89]
[In the Pasha's Garden]H. G. Dwight[98]
[Little Selves]Mary Lerner[121]
[The Failure]Charles Caldwell Dobie[136]
[Business is Business]Henry Seidel Canby[152]
[Nothing]Zephine Humphrey[167]
[A Moth of Peace]Katharine Fullerton Gerould[180]
[In No Strange Land]Katharine Butler[201]
[Little Brother]Madeleine Z. Doty[208]
[What Road Goeth He?]F. J. Louriet[217]
[The Clearer Sight]Ernest Starr[227]
[The Garden of Memories]C. A. Mercer[252]
[The Clearest Voice]Margaret Sherwood[259]
[The Marble Child]E. Nesbit[270]
[The One Left]E. V. Lucas[283]
[The Legacy of Richard Hughes] Margaret Lynn[290]
[Of Water and the Spirit]Margaret Prescott Montague [310]
[Mr. Squem]Arthur Russell Taylor[326]
[Biographical and Interpretative Notes][337]