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AUTHORS OF SHORT STORIES WELL WORTH READING
Volumes containing short stories by the following writers will be found in any public library. Any one who wishes to gain an understanding of the principles of the short story should read a number of stories by every writer named in the list.
| Thomas Bailey Aldrich | Washington Irving |
| Hans Christian Andersen | Myra Kelly |
| James Matthew Barrie | Rudyard Kipling |
| Alice Brown | Jack London |
| Henry Cuyler Bunner | Brander Matthews |
| Richard Harding Davis | Ian Maclaren |
| Margaret Deland | Fiona McLeod |
| Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | Edgar Allan Poe |
| Eugene Field | Thomas Nelson Page |
| Mary E. Wilkins Freeman | Ernest Thompson Seton |
| Hamlin Garland | F. Hopkinson Smith |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | Frank R. Stockton |
| Joel Chandler Harris | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| O. Henry | Ruth McEnery Stuart |
| Bret Harte | Henry Van Dyke |
CONTENTS
| PAGE | ||
| PREFACE | [v] | |
| INTRODUCTION | [ix] | |
| I | The Writing of Essays | [ix] |
| II | Nature of the Essay | [xi] |
| III | Types of the Essay | [xii] |
| IV | The Development of the Essay | [xiv] |
| V | Essays Well Worth Reading | [xvi] |
| VI | The Writing of Short Stories | [xviii] |
| VII | Nature of the Short Story | [xix] |
| VIII | Types of the Short Story | [xx] |
| IX | The Development of the Short Story | [xxii] |
| X | Authors of Short Stories Well Worth Reading | [xxiv] |
| THE FAMILIAR ESSAY | ||
| The Pup-Dog | Robert Palfrey Utter | [3] |
| Chewing Gum | Charles Dudley Warner | [11] |
| The Mystery of Ah Sing | Robert L. Duffus | [16] |
| Old Doc | Opie Read | [19] |
| Christmas Shopping | Helen Davenport | [26] |
| Sunday Bells | Gertrude Henderson | [28] |
| Discovery | Georges Duhamel | [31] |
| The Furrows | Gilbert K. Chesterton | [36] |
| Meditation and Imagination | Hamilton Wright Mabie | [40] |
| Who Owns the Mountains? | Henry Van Dyke | [49] |
| THE LEGENDARY STORY | ||
| Running Wolf | Algernon Blackwood | [55] |
| THE BIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY | ||
| How I Found America | Anzia Yezierska | [77] |
| Memories of Childhood | William Henry Shelton | [94] |
| A Visit to John Burroughs | Sadakichi Hartmann | [100] |
| Washington on Horseback | H. A. Ogden | [108] |
| THE HISTORICAL STORY | ||
| Havelok the Dane | George Philip Krapp | [118] |
| THE STORY ESSAY | ||
| Politics Up to Date | Frederick Lewis Allen | [136] |
| Free! | Charles Hanson Towne | [143] |
| THE STORY OF ADVENTURE | ||
| Prunier Tells a Story | T. Morris Longstreth | [148] |
| THE DIDACTIC ESSAY | ||
| The American Boy | Theodore Roosevelt | [168] |
| The Spirit of Adventure | Hildegarde Hawthorne | [176] |
| Vanishing New York | Robert and Elizabeth Shackleton | [184] |
| The Songs of the Civil War | Brander Matthews | [203] |
| Locomotion in the Twentieth Century | H. G. Wells | [210] |
| The Writing of Essays | Charles S. Brooks | [219] |
| The Rhythm of Prose | Abram Lipsky | [225] |
| THE REALISTIC STORY | ||
| The Chinaman's Head | William Rose Benét | [230] |
| Getting Up to Date | Roberta Wayne | [239] |
| The Lion and the Mouse | Joseph B. Ames | [253] |
| THE CRITICAL ESSAY | ||
| Coddling in Education | Henry Seidel Canby | [267] |
| A Successful Failure | Glenn Frank | [271] |
| The Drolleries of Clothes | Agnes Repplier | [278] |
| POETIC PROSE | ||
| Children | Yukio Ozaki | [284] |
| Ships That Lift Tall Spires of Canvas | Ralph D. Paine | [287] |
| PERSONALITY IN CORRESPONDENCE | ||
| The Statue of General Sherman | [291] | |
| The Roosevelt Saint-Gaudens Correspondence Concerning Coinage | Theodore Roosevelt and Augustus Saint-Gaudens | [292] |
| THE SYMBOLIC STORY | ||
| Hi-Brasil | Ralph Durand | [300] |
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| | FACING PAGE |
| “Havelok had all he wanted to eat.” | [Frontispiece] |
| The feeling stole over him without the slightest warning. He was not alone | [60] |
| My great-grandmother | [96] |
| Colonel Humphreys landed in the ditch | [116] |
| “You made a fine signal” | [164] |
| It has been called the oldest building in New York | [188] |
| “A-ah, mystery!” said Mrs. Revis, clasping her beautiful hands and gazing upward. “I adore mystery!” | [236] |
| “Isn't this great! They're here, every one of them! You're awfully good to let us use the phonograph” | [248] |
| At the very take-off, a gasp of horror was jolted from his lips | [264] |
| The fluctuations of fashion are alternately a grievance and a solace | [280] |
| Its humming shrouds were vibrant with the eternal call of the sea | [288] |
| Designing the ten- and twenty-dollar gold pieces | [292] |
MODERN ESSAYS AND STORIES
THE FAMILIAR ESSAY