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Title: Stories of Authors, British and American

Author: Edwin Watts Chubb

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[Illustration: GEOFFREY CHAUCER
From a portrait in Occleve's Poems in the British Museum]

Stories of Authors

_British and American_

BY
EDWIN WATTS CHUBB
Professor of English Literature
in the Ohio University.

_ILLUSTRATED_

New York
STURGIS & WALTON
COMPANY
1910

_All rights reserved_

Copyright, 1910
BY STURGIS & WALTON COMPANY

Set up and electrotyped. Published February, 1910

Reprinted May, 1910

PREFACE

The purpose of this book is to help in making literature and the
makers of literature alive and interesting. Few schools have libraries
including the bound volumes of the magazines of the past quarter of a
century. But what an aid such a collection is to the appreciation of
literature! The dignified and abbreviated history of literature cannot
indulge in such delightful gossip as is found in the freer essay and
fuller biography. To show the excellences of the art and the
lovableness o