LIFE AT HIGH TIDE

Harper's Novelettes

Edited By
William Dean Howells and Henry Mills Alden

[THE IMMEDIATE JEWEL]	MARGARET DELAND
"[AND ANGELS CAME]"	ANNE O'HAGAN
[KEEPERS OF A CHARGE]	GRACE ELLERY CHANNING
[A WORKING BASIS]	ABBY MEGUIRE ROACH
[THE GLASS DOOR]	MARY TRACY EARLE
[ELIZABETH AND DAVIE]	MURIEL CAMPBELL DYAR
[BARNEY DOON, BRAGGART]	PHILIP VERRILL MIGHELS
[THE REPARATION]	EMERY POTTLE
[THE YEARLY TRIBUTE]	ROSINA HUBLEY EMMET
[A MATTER OF RIVALRY]	OCTAVE THANET

PREFACE

There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.

Thus the poet—and poetry, of the old order at least, always waiting upon great events, has found in the high-tide flotations of masterful heroes to fortune themes most flatteringly responsive to its own high tension.

The writer of fiction has no such afflatus, no such high pitch of life, as to outward circumstance, in his representation of it, as the poet has; and therefore his may seem to the academic critic the lesser art—but it is nearer to the realities of common human existence. He deals with plain men and women, and the un-majestic moments of their lives.

LIFE AT HIGH TIDE

Edited ByWilliam Dean Howells and Henry Mills Alden

CONTENTS

PREFACE

Edited By
William Dean Howells and Henry Mills Alden