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Title: International Short Stories
English

Author: Various

Editor: William Patten

Release Date: June 16, 2010 [EBook #32846]

Language: English

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[Frontispiece: W. Clark Russell]

INTERNATIONAL SHORT STORIES

EDITED BY

WILLIAM PATTEN

A NEW COLLECTION OF
FAMOUS EXAMPLES
FROM THE LITERATURES
OF ENGLAND, FRANCE
AND AMERICA

ENGLISH

P F COLLIER & SON

NEW YORK

Copyright, 1910

BY P. F. COLLIER & SON

The use of the copyrighted stories in this collection has been
authorized in each case by their authors or by their representatives.

ENGLISH STORIES

THE TWO DROVERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . By Sir Walter Scott

MR. DEUCEACE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . By W. M. Thackeray

THE BROTHERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Edward Bulmer Lytton

DOCTOR MANETTE'S MANUSCRIPT . . . . . . . . . . . By Charles Dickens

THE CALDRON OF OIL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . By Wilkie Collins

THE BURIAL OF THE TITHE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . By Samuel Lover

THE KNIGHTSBRIDGE MYSTERY . . . . . . . . . . . . . By Charles Reade

THE COURTING OF DINAH SHADD . . . . . . . . . . . By Rudyard Kipling

THE SIRE DE MALETROIT'S DOOR . . . . . . . . . . . By R. L. Stevenson

THE SECRET OF GORESTHORPE GRANGE . . . . . . . . By Sir A. Conan Doyle

A CHANGE OF TREATMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . By W. W. Jacobs

THE STICKIT MINISTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . By S. R. Crockett

THE LAMMAS PREACHING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . By S. R. Crockett

AN UNDERGRADUATE'S AUNT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . By F. Anstey

THE SILHOUETTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . By A. T. Quiller-Couch

MY BROTHER HENRY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . By J. M. Barrie

GILRAY'S FLOWER POT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . By J. M. Barrie

MR. O'LEARY'S SECOND LOVE . . . . . . . . . . . . . By Charles Lever

THE INDIFFERENCE OF THE