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Autumn. By Karl Haider _Frontispiece_

Helene Boehlau 2

Wife of a Clamdigger. By Hans von Bartels 32

Folksong. By K. Reutlingen 52

Clara Viebig 78

A Portrait. By Adolf Muenzer 102

The Gossips. By Friedrich Wahle 142

Little Curiosity. By Julius Exter 172

Thomas Mann 186

Arco. By Benno Becker 226

Ludwig Thoma 252

Rudolf Hans Bartsch 270

Back from the Fair. By Franz Wilhelm Voigt 286

Hermann Hesse 326

A Human Load. By Franz Wilhelm Voigt 336

Flower Market at Leyden. By Hans Herrmann 356

Ernst Zahn 374

Evening. By Ludwig Dill 400

Moonrise in the Moor. By Otto Modersohn 420

Forest Meadows. By Oscar Frenzel 450

Moorland. By Otto Modersohn 480

THE CONTEMPORARY SHORT STORY

By Julius Petersen, Ph.D.
Professor of German Literature, University of Basel

TRANSLATED BY WILLIAM GUILD HOWARD

The last two volumes of this comprehensive publication are devoted
to the living, the writers of the present who sow the seed from which
shall grow the future of German letters. But who can speak of prophecy
or prevision, at a moment when all who call themselves German are
compelled to fight for their existence, and the future of German
nationality as well as of German culture is hidden by the smoke of
battle? To the four quarters of the globe the wild alarm _Germania est
delenda_ is trumpeted as a so-called duty of human civilization;
isolated Germany can respond only with her resolute _Victory or Death_.
What shall be the end? Shall this war of the nations, unparalleled in
history, mean for Germany the destruction of all her material and
spiritual possess