viii • Contents
246 Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton (1832-1895)
248 from The Squatter and the Don
248 Chapter 5, The Don in His Broad Acres
256 William Dean Howells (1837-1920)
258 from The Editor's Study
259 Letters to the Editor of the New York Tribune
264 Mary E. Wilkins's Short Stories
265 Paul Laurence Dunbar
267 Mr. Charles W. Chesnutt's Stories
269 Editha
279 Henry James (1843-1916)
281 Daisy Miller: A Study
320 The Art of Fiction
335 The Jolly Corner
357 Kate Chopin (1851-1904)
359 Desiree's Baby
363 The Awakening
453 Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?)
455 Chickamauga
459 Hamlin Garland (1860-1940)
460 Up the Coule: A Story of Wisconsin
489 Stephen Crane (1871-1900)
491 A Mystery of Heroism
497 The Open Boat
513 The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky
521 from The Black Riders and Other Lines
521 God Lay Dead in Heaven
521 from War Is Kind
521 Do Not Weep, Maiden, for War Is Kind
522 The Impact of a Dollar upon the Heart
523 A Man Said to the Universe
524 A Newspaper Is a Collection of Half-injustices
524 There Was a Man with Tongue of Wood
524 from Uncollected Poems
524 Chant You Loud of Punishments
524 Jack London (1876-1916)
526 South of the Slot