VOLUME TWO
ITALIAN AND
SCANDINAVIAN

EDITED BY
William Patten

WITH
AN INTRODUCTION
AND NOTES

P. F. COLLIER & SON
NEW YORK

Copyright 1907
By P. F. Collier & Son
The use of the copyrighted translations in this
collection has been authorized by the
authors or their representatives. The
translations made especially for
this collection are covered
by the general
copyright.

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]

THE LOST LETTER

BY ENRICO CASTELNUOVO