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THE READERS'S LIBRARY
THE GREAT ENGLISH SHORT-STORY WRITERS
VOL. I
WITH INTRODUCTORY ESSAYS BY
WILLIAM J. DAWSON AND CONINGSBY W. DAWSON
MCMX
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
To the publishers and authors who have courteously permitted the use of copyrighted material in these two volumes, a word of grateful acknowledgment is hereby given by the editors.