Little Masterpieces
of Fiction

Edited by

HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE

And

LIONEL STRACHEY

VOLUME II

Ali Baba and the Forty Robbers
From the Arabian Nights' Entertainments

The Gridiron

By Samuel Lover

The Cremona Violin

By Ernst Theodor Wolfgang Hoffmann

Providence and the Guitar

By Robert Louis Stevenson

Rip Van Winkle

By Washington Irving

NEW YORK

DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY

Copyright, 1904, by Doubleday, Page & Company Published, December, 1904

HARVARD INIVERSITY

CONTENTS

VOLUME II.

"Ali Baba and the Forty Robbers,"

From the Arabian Nights' Entertainments

"The Gridiron,"

By Samuel Lover

"The Cremona Violin,"

"Providence and the Guitar,"

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