THE BOOK OF THE SHORT STORY EDITED BY ALEXANDER JESSUP EDITOR OF LITTLE FRENCH MASTERPIECES, ETC. AND HENRY SEIDEL CANBY INSTRUCTOR IN ENGLISH IN THE SHEFFIELD SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL, COLLEGE COPYRIGHT, 1903 By D. APPLETON AND COMPANY PRINTED AT THE APPLETON PRESS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS RIP VAN WINKLE is republished in this volume by the permission of Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons, the authorised publishers of Washington Irving's complete works. Thanks are due the same publishers for permission to use their text of The Cask of Amontillado, from their edition of the works of Edgar Allan Poe. The Birthmark is used by special arrangement with, and the permission of, Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., the authorised publishers of the complete works of Nathaniel Hawthorne. The Taking of the Redoubt, La Grande Bretèche, and A Coward, copyrighted, 1903, by Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons, and here used by special arrangement and permission, are taken from the Mérimée, Balzac, and Maupassant volumes of their Little French Masterpieces series. Thanks are due Prof. Wilbur L. Cross, of the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University, and Prof. Curtis Hidden Page, of Columbia University, for valuable assistance in the latter portion of the work. Thanks are also due Prof. Albert S. Cook, of Yale University, Mr. Nathan Haskell Dole, and Mr. Charles Harvey Genung, for helpful advice and assistance. The Introduction to this volume first appeared as a separate paper in the series of Yale Studies in English edited by Prof. Albert S. Cook, and is the work of Mr. Henry S. Canby. It is here published in a largely revised form. THE EDITORS. |