INTERNATIONAL SHORT STORIES

EDITED BY
WILLIAM PATTEN
A NEW COLLECTION OF
FAMOUS EXAMPLES
FROM THE LITERATURES
OF ENGLAND, FRANCE
AND AMERICA

ENGLISH

P F COLLIER & SON
NEW YORK

Copyright, 1910
BY P. F. COLLIER & SON
The use of the copyrighted stories in this collection has
been authorized in each case by their authors
or by their representatives.

ENGLISH STORIES

[THE TWO DROVERS] By Sir Walter Scott
[MR. DEUCEACE] By W. M. Thackeray
[THE BROTHERS ] Edward Bulmer Lytton
[DOCTOR MANETTE'S MANUSCRIPT] By Charles Dickens
[THE CALDRON OF OIL] By Wilkie Collins
[THE BURIAL OF THE TITHE] By Samuel Lover
[THE KNIGHTSBRIDGE MYSTERY ] By Charles Reade
[THE COURTING OF DINAH SHADD ] By Rudyard Kipling
[THE SIRE DE MALETROIT'S DOOR] By R. L. Stevenson
[THE SECRET OF GORESTHORPE GRANGE ] By Sir A. Conan Doyle
[A CHANGE OF TREATMENT ] By W. W. Jacobs
[THE STICKIT MINISTER ] By S. R. Crockett
[THE LAMMAS PREACHING ] By S. R. Crockett
[AN UNDERGRADUATE'S AUNT ] By F. Anstey
[THE SILHOUETTES ] By A. T. Quiller-Couch
[MY BROTHER HENRY ] By J. M. Barrie
[GILRAY'S FLOWER POT ] By J. M. Barrie
[MR. O'LEARY'S SECOND LOVE] By Charles Lever
[THE INDIFFERENCE OF THE MILLER OF HOFBAU ] By Anthony Hope Hawkins
[THE STOLEN BODY] By H. G. Wells
[THE LAZARETTE OF THE "HUNTRESS"] By W. Clark Russell
[THE GREAT TRIANGULAR DUEL] By Captain Frederick Marryat
[THREE THIMBLES AND A PEA ] By George Borrow