The Short-Story

CONTENTS: The Husband of Aglaes / from Gesta Romanorum -- The Story of Griselda / Boccaccio -- Constantia and Theodosius / Joseph Addison -- Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving -- Dream-Children, a revery / Charles Lamb -- Wandering Willie’s Tale / Walter Scott -- Mateo Falcone / Presper Merimee -- The Shot / Alexander Pushkin -- The Steadfast Tin Soldier / Hans Christian Andersen -- The Fall of the House of Usher / Edgar Allan Poe -- The Ambitious Guest / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- A Child’s Dream of a Star / Charles Dickens -- What Was It? A Mystery / Fitz-James O’Brien -- The Father / Bjornstjern Bjornson -- Tennessee’s Partner / Bret Harte -- The Siege of Berlin / Alphonse Daudet -- The Insurgent / Ludovic Halevy -- The Substitute / Francois Coppee -- Mrs. Knollys / Frederic J. Stimson -- The Necklace / Guy de Muapassant -- Markheim / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The Man Who Was / Rudyard Kipling -- A Sisterly Scheme -- H. C. Bunner.