INTERNATIONAL SHORT STORIES
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EDITED BY WILLIAM PATTEN A NEW COLLECTION OF FAMOUS EXAMPLES FROM THE LITERATURES OF ENGLAND, FRANCE AND AMERICA
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P F COLLIER & SON NEW YORK
Copyright, 1910 BY P. F. COLLIER & SON The use of the copyrighted stories in this collection has been authorized in each case by their authors or by their representatives.
ENGLISH STORIES
THE TWO DROVERS By Sir Walter Scott
MR. DEUCEACE By W. M. Thackeray
THE BROTHERS Edward Bulmer Lytton
DOCTOR MANETTE'S MANUSCRIPT By Charles Dickens
THE CALDRON OF OIL By Wilkie Collins
THE BURIAL OF THE TITHE By Samuel Lover
THE KNIGHTSBRIDGE MYSTERY By Charles Reade
THE COURTING OF DINAH SHADD By Rudyard Kipling
THE SIRE DE MALETROIT'S DOOR By R. L. Stevenson
THE SECRET OF GORESTHORPE GRANGE By Sir A. Conan Doyle
A CHANGE OF TREATMENT By W. W. Jacobs
THE STICKIT MINISTER By S. R. Crockett
THE LAMMAS PREACHING By S. R. Crockett
AN UNDERGRADUATE'S AUNT By F. Anstey
THE SILHOUETTES By A. T. Quiller-Couch
MY BROTHER HENRY By J. M. Barrie
GILRAY'S FLOWER POT By J. M. Barrie
MR. O'LEARY'S SECOND LOVE By Charles Lever
THE INDIFFERENCE OF THE MILLER OF HOFBAU By Anthony Hope Hawkins
THE STOLEN BODY By H. G. Wells
THE LAZARETTE OF THE "HUNTRESS" By W. Clark Russell
THE GREAT TRIANGULAR DUEL By Captain Frederick Marryat
THREE THIMBLES AND A PEA By George Borrow