ATLANTIC NARRATIVES
Reading edition
Modern Short Stories
EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CHARLES SWAIN THOMAS, A. M. Head of Department of English, Newton (Mass.) High School Lecturer in the Harvard Summer School The Atlantic Monthly Press BOSTON
Copyright, 1918, by THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY PRESS, INC.
CONTENTS
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Introductionvii
The PreliminariesCornelia A. P. Comer1
Buttercup-NightJohn Galsworthy22
HepaticasAnne Douglas Sedgwick30
Possessing PrudenceAmy Wentworth Stone56
The Glory-BoxElizabeth Ashe68
The Spirit of the HerdDallas Lore Sharp89
In the Pasha's GardenH. G. Dwight98
Little SelvesMary Lerner121
The FailureCharles Caldwell Dobie136
Business is BusinessHenry Seidel Canby152
NothingZephine Humphrey167
A Moth of PeaceKatharine Fullerton Gerould180
In No Strange LandKatharine Butler201
Little BrotherMadeleine Z. Doty208
What Road Goeth He?F. J. Louriet217
The Clearer SightErnest Starr227
The Garden of MemoriesC. A. Mercer252
The Clearest VoiceMargaret Sherwood259
The Marble ChildE. Nesbit270
The One LeftE. V. Lucas283
The Legacy of Richard Hughes Margaret Lynn290
Of Water and the SpiritMargaret Prescott Montague 310
Mr. SquemArthur Russell Taylor326
Biographical and Interpretative Notes337