- paperback· 333 pp
American Short Stories
By Bayard Taylor, Francis Bret Harte, James Hall, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harold Frederic, Austin, William, Henry Cuyler Bunner, ALBERT FALVEY WEBSTER, Caroline M. Kirkland, Edgar Allan Poe, Albert Pike, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Washington Irving, Charles Sears Baldwin, Nathaniel Parker Willis, Fitz-James O'Brien
Pt. 1. The tentative period: Irving, W. Rip Van Winkle. Austin W. Peter Rugg, the missing man. Hall, J. The French village. Pike, A. the inroad of the Nabajo. Pt. 2. The period of the new form: Hawthorne, N. The white old maid. Longfellow, H.W. The notary of Périgueux. Poe, E.A. [Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W) Willis, N.P. The inlet of peach blossoms. Kirkland, C.M.S. The bee-tree. O'Brien, F.-J. What was it? A mystery. Harte, F.B. The outcasts of Poker Flat. Webster, A.F. Miss Eunice's glove. Taylor, B. Who was she? Bunner, H.C. The love-letters of Smith. Frederic, H. The eve of the Fourth.