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William Patterson Atkinson
Roaring Camp.
27. Tennessee's Partner.
28. HAWTHORNE: The Ambitious Guest.
29. Ethan Brand.
30. The Gray Champion.
31. The Great Stone Face.
32. "O. HENRY": Friends in San Rosario.
33. Jimmie Hayes and Muriel.
34. IRVING: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
35. The Spectre Bridegroom.
36. JAMES: A Passionate Pilgrim.

37. JANVIER: In the St. Peter's Set.
38. The Passing of Thomas.
39. JEWETT: A Native of Winby.
40. KIPLING: The Brushwood Boy.
41. An Habitation Enforced.
42. The Maltese Cat.
43. My Lord the Elephant.
44. Rikki-tikki-tavi.
45. They.
46. The Tomb of His Ancestors.
47. Wee Willie Winkie.
48. William the Conqueror.
49. LONDON: The White Silence.
50. MORRIS: The Trap.
51. MURFREE: The "Harnt" that Walks Chilhowee.
52. PAGE: Marse Chan.
53. Meh Lady.
54. Polly.
55. PARKER: The Stake and the Plumb Line.
56. POE: The Fall of the House of Usher.

57. The Murders in the Rue Morgue.
58. The Pit and the Pendulum.
59. ROBERTS: From the Teeth of the Tide.
60. SPEARMAN: Jimmie the Wind.
61. SMITH, F. H.: Colonel Carter of Cartersville.
62. STEVENSON: The Bottle Imp.
63. A Lodging for the Night.
64. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
65. The Merry Men.
66. The Pavilion on the Links.
67. STOCKTON: The Lady or the Tiger?
68. The Transferred Ghost.
69. A Story of Seven Devils.
70. VAN DYKE: The Blue Flower.
71. WILKINS (FREEMAN): A New England Nun.
72. The Revolt of Mother.
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CANBY, HENRY SEIDEL, A Study of the Short-story. Henry Holt &

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DAWSON, W. J. AND CONINGSBY, The Great English Short-story
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THE SHORT-STORY
[The following Tale was found among the papers of the late Diedrich
Knickerbocker, an old gentleman of New York, who was very curious
in the Dutch history of the province, and the manners of the
descendants from its primitive settlers. His historical researches,
however, did not lie so much among books as among men; for the
former are lamentably scanty on his favorite topics; whereas he found
the old burghers, and still more their wives, rich in that legendary lore,
so invaluable to true history. Whenever, therefore, he happened upon a
genuine Dutch family, snugly shut up in its low-roofed farmhouse,
under a spreading sycamore, he looked upon it as a little clasped
volume of black-letter, and studied it with the zeal of a book-worm.
The result of all these researches was a history of the province during
the reign of the Dutch governors, which he published some years since.
There have been various opinions as to the literary character of his
work, and, to tell the truth, it is not a whit better than it should be. Its
chief merit is its scrupulous accuracy, which indeed was a little
questioned on its first appearance, but has since been completely

established; and it is now admitted into all historical collections, as a
book of unquestionable authority.
The old gentleman died shortly after the publication of his work, and
now that he is dead and gone, it cannot do much harm to his memory to
say that his time might have been much better employed in weightier
labors. He, however, was apt to ride his hobby his own way; and
though it did now and then kick up the dust a little in the eyes of his
neighbors, and grieve the spirit of some friends, for whom he felt the
truest deference and affection; yet his errors and follies are remembered
"more in sorrow than in anger," and it begins to be suspected, that he
never intended to injure or offend. But however his memory may be
appreciated by critics, it is still held dear by many folks, whose good
opinion is well worth having; particularly by certain biscuit-bakers,
who have gone so far as to imprint his likeness on their new-year cakes;
and have thus given him a chance for immortality, almost equal to the
being stamped on a Waterloo Medal, or a Queen Anne's Farthing.]

RIP VAN WINKLE
A POSTHUMOUS WRITING OF DIEDRICH KNICKERBOCKER
By Woden, God of Saxons, From whence comes Wensday, that is
Wodensday, Truth is a thing that ever I will keep Unto thylke day in
which I creep into My sepulchre--
CARTWRIGHT.
Whoever has made a voyage up the Hudson must remember the
Kaatskill mountains. They are a dismembered branch of the great
Appalachian family, and are seen away to the west of the river,
swelling up
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