NARRATIVES BY CARROLL LEWIS MAXCY, M.A. Morris Professor of Rhetoric in Williams College BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO SAN FRANCISCO The Riverside Press Cambridge COPYRIGHT, 1914, BY CARROLL LEWIS MAXCY ALL RIGHTS RESERVED The Riverside Press CAMBRIDGE. MASSACHUSETTS ΤΟ L. H. M. "If my slight Muse do please these curious days, The pain be mine, but thine shall be the praise." PREFACE THE Compiler of this volume realizes that there would seem to be little excuse for adding to the number of similar collections already in existence; and yet he has brought the following pages together in response to the demands of the classroom. Other compilations are based largely on the historical development of the shortstory or upon the various characteristics of the shortstory as a distinct literary type. The purpose of this volume is to present types of narrative structure, without regard to the problem of literary evolution. The matter of setting, of characterization, of plot, of dialogue has been the fundamental consideration guiding the choice of specimens. The introductions to the individual selections are intentionally brief, and indicate merely the principal qualities for which they have been found useful as illustrative types. It is hardly necessary to add that each narrative may serve other purposes than those indicated in the preliminary paragraphs. In the proper place acknowledgment is made to the various publishing houses that have courteously permitted the use of copyrighted material. WILLIAMS COLLEGE CARROLL LEWIS MAXCY WILLIAMSTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS March, 1914 |