| PAGE | |
| THE QUEEN OF SPADES Alexander Sergeievitch Poushkin | [3] |
| THE CLOAK Nikolai Vasilievitch Gogol | [21] |
| THE RENDEZVOUS Iván Turgenev | [67] |
| THE COUNTING-HOUSE Iván Turgenev | [81] |
| THE THIEF Feodor Mikailovitch Dostoievski | [109] |
| THE LONG EXILE Count Leo Nikolaievitch Tolstoi | [137] |
| EASTER NIGHT Vladímir Galaktionovitch Korolénko | [153] |
| THE SIGNAL Vsevolod Mikailovitch Garshin | [165] |
| THE CURSE OF FAME Ignatiy Nikolaievitch Potapenko | [183] |
| A WORK OF ART Anton Pavlovitch Chekhov | [217] |
| THE SLANDERER Anton Pavlovitch Chekhov | [223] |
| FAUST Eugène Nikolaievitch Chirikov | [231] |
| THE DUEL Nikolai Dmítrievitch Teleshov | [263] |
| BOLESS Alexei Maximovitch Pyeshkov (Maxim Gorki) | [273] |
| THE LOVE OF A SCENE-PAINTER “Skitalitz” | [285] |
| VALIA Leonid Andreiev | [309] |
CONTENTS—VOLUME II
ITALIAN
| PAGE | |
| THE LOST LETTER Enrico Castelnuovo | 329 |
| CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA Giovanni Verga | 347 |
| THE SILVER CRUCIFIX Antonio Fogazzaro | 359 |
| THE LITTLE SARDINIAN DRUMMER Edmondo de Amicis | 375 |
| LULU’S TRIUMPH Matilda Serao | 387 |
| THE END OF CANDIA Gabriele d’Annunzio | 411 |
| SIGNORA SPERANZA Luigi Pirandello | 427 |
| TWO MEN AND A WOMAN Grazia Deledda | 481 |
| SCANDINAVIAN | |
| RAILROAD AND CHURCHYARD Björnstjerne Björnson | 511 |
| BJÖRN SIVERTSEN’S WEDDING TRIP Holger Drachmann | 547 |
| JALO THE TROTTER Johann Jacob Ahrenberg | 567 |
| THE PLAGUE AT BERGAMO Jens Peter Jacobsen | 583 |
| KAREN Alexander Lange Kielland | 595 |
| LOVE AND BREAD Jean August Strindberg | 605 |
| IRENE HOLM Hermann Joachim Bang | 619 |
| THE OUTLAWS Selma Lagerlöf | 637 |
CONTENTS—VOLUME III
GERMAN
| PAGE | |
| THE BROKEN CUP Johann Heinrich Daniel Zschokke | 663 |
| CASTLE NEIDECK Wilhelm Heinrich von Riehl | 691 |
| THE YOUNG GIRL OF TREPPI Paul Johann Ludwig Heyse | 739 |
| THE STONEBREAKERS Ferdinand von Saar | 793 |
| THOU SHALT NOT KILL Leopold von Sacher-Masoch | 839 |
| THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH Rudolf Baumbach | 849 |
| GOOD BLOOD Ernst von Wildenbruch | 863 |
| DELIVERANCE Max Simon Nordau | 903 |
| A NEW-YEAR’S EVE CONFESSION Hermann Sudermann | 917 |
| BRIC-A-BRAC AND DESTINIES Gabriele Reuter | 929 |
| THE FUR COAT Ludwig Fulda | 939 |
| THE DEAD ARE SILENT Arthur Schnitzler | 955 |
| MARGRET’S PILGRIMAGE Clara Viebig | 981 |
CONTENTS—VOLUME IV
FRENCH
| PAGE | |
| THE UNKNOWN MASTERPIECE Honoré de Balzac | 1007 |
| THE PRICE OF A LIFE Augustin Eugène Scribe | 1049 |
| NAPOLEON AND POPE PIUS VII Alfred Victor, Comte de Vigny | 1067 |
| CLAUDE GUEUX Victor Marie Hugo | 1083 |
| A BAL MASQUÉ Alexandre Davy de la Pailleterie Dumas | 1105 |
| HOW THE REDOUBT WAS TAKEN Prosper Mérimée | 1121 |
| THE VENDEAN MARRIAGE Jules Gabriel Janin | 1131 |
| THE MARQUISE George Sand | 1149 |
| THE BEAUTY-SPOT Alfred Louis Charles de Musset | 1185 |
| THE MUMMY’S FOOT Théophile Gautier | 1237 |
| CIRCÉ Octave Feuillet | 1257 |
| THE HANGING AT LA PIROCHE Alexandre Dumas, Fils | 1269 |
| THE DEAN’S WATCH Erckmann-Chatrian | 1289 |
| AT THE PALAIS DE JUSTICE Alphonse Daudet | 1319 |
| BOUM-BOUM Jules Claretie | 1327 |
CONTENTS—VOLUME V
FRENCH
| PAGE | |
| LA BRETONNE André Theuriet | 1339 |
| WHICH WAS THE MADMAN? Edmond About | 1349 |
| THE GRAND MARRIAGE Ludovic Halévy | 1379 |
| THE ACCURSED HOUSE Émile Gaboriau | 1415 |
| THE FÊTE AT COQUEVILLE Émile Zola | 1427 |
| THE LOST CHILD François Coppée | 1471 |
| PUTOIS Anatole France | 1495 |
| SAC-AU-DOS Joris Karl Huysmans | 1515 |
| “BONJOUR, MONSIEUR” Jean Richepin | 1559 |
| THE BIT OF STRING Guy de Maupassant | 1571 |
| THE NECKLACE Guy de Maupassant | 1581 |
| THE WALL OPPOSITE Pierre Loti | 1595 |
| THE ANCESTOR Paul Bourget | 1605 |
| WHEN HE WAS A LITTLE BOY Henri Lavedan | 1639 |
| A GENTLEMAN FINDS A WATCH Georges Courteline | 1651 |
| A YOUNG GIRL’S DIARY Marcel Prévost | 1659 |
| THE SIGN OF THE KEY AND THE CROSS Henri de Régnier | 1671 |
| THE TELEGRAPH OPERATOR Alphonse Allais | 1685 |