American Stories

THE HAWTHORNE CLASSICS

AMERICAN
STORIES

EDITED BY

EDWARD EVERETT HALE, JR., Ph.D.

Professor of English in Union College

YONKERS-ON-HUDSON, NEW YORK
WORLD BOOK COMPANY

FOR GRAMMAR GRADES

Edited by Edward Everett Hale, Jr., Ph.D., Professor of English in
Union College. In eight volumes. Uniformly bound in cloth.
List price per volume for class use, 40 cents; mailing

price for single volume, each 48 cents.
These classics are adapted to higher grammar grades and
satisfy the universal demand for complete literary wholes.

AMERICAN ESSAYS. For grades 7 and 8. xii + 257 pages.

Examples from our four greatest essayists, that can also be used

in the lower classes of high schools.
AMERICAN STORIES. For grades 6 and 7. xvi + 270 pages.

Eight great American short stories from Washington Irving to
Edward Everett Hale. Each is a model of the kind, and is dis-

tinct in subject and treatment.
BALLADS AND BALLAD POETRY. For grades 7 and 8. xvi +

254 pages.
Genuine ballads of the olden time with the true ballad flavor, a
group of the best modern ballads, and three stirring poems of

greater length which have the ballad character.
ENGLISH ESSAYS. For grades 7 and 8. xiv + 240 pages.

By Lamb, Addison, Goldsmith, and Thackeray. Some are also

well adapted to high school and normal classes.
ENGLISH STORIES. For grades 6 and 7. xiv + 240 pages.

Five great English Stories of varied type. This volume with
“American Stories" will help to develop the literary sense, while

gratifying the love for a good story.
GREEK MYTHS IN ENGLISH DRESS, For grades 5 and 6. xii +

244 pages.
Six immortal Greek myths retold by Nathaniel Hawthorne,

Charles Kingsley, and Thomas Bulfinch.
LONGER NARRATIVE POEMS. For grades 6 to 8. xiv + 257 pages.

Ten of the best narrative poems of the nineteenth century, varied
in style and meter, and of thrilling interest to pupils of the hero-
loving age.

These poems might be used in the high school for
more critical study.
SHAKESPEAREAN COMEDIES. For grades 7 and 8. xxii +298 pages.

A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It, and The Tempest.
One, at least, of these comedies should be read in the grammar

grades.
For English Classics for high schools, note the “ Star Series” which

is listed in the back of this book.

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The general idea of this series has been so often stated in other volumes, that it will be enough now to say that we have here put together such examples as will show the general character of the short story and also some of the special directions in which it has been developed.

With this view, the particular stories to be chosen were in most cases not only natural, but necessary.

With Hawthorne, it was not possible to represent all the different forms in which his genius found expression ; with Poe, it seemed just as well not to choose a detective story or a tale of horror. But “The Gold Bug” and “The Fall of the House of Usher” are so familiar that most readers will be glad of a chance to have one of Poe's less known stories.

E. E. H., JR.

The selections from Nathaniel Hawthorne are used by permission of and special arrangement with Houghton, Mifflin & Co., the authorized publishers of Hawthorne's works.