Modern Short Stories

Edited with introduction and notes by Frederick Houk Law, Ph.D. Lecturer in English in New York University, and Head of the Department of English in the Stuyvesant High School, New York City. Copyright 1918
Compiled for High School teachers for use in class. Some stories are excepts from bigger works or other collections. After an extensive introduction the stories are:
The Adventures of Simon and Susanna by Joel Chandler Harris
The Crow-Child by Mary Mapes Dodge
The Soul of the Great Bell by Lafcadio Hearn
The Ten Trails by Ernest Thompson Seton
Where Love is, There God is Also by Count Leo Tolstoi
Wood Ladies by Perceval Gibbon
On the Fever Ship by Richard Harding Davis
A Source of Irritation by Stacy Aumonier
Moti Guj-Mutineer by Rudyard Kipling
Gulliver the Great by Walter A. Dyer
Sonny's Schoolin' by Ruth McEnery Stuart
Her First Horse Show by David Gray
My Husbands Book by James Matthew Barrie
War by Jack London
The Battle of the Monsters by Morgan Robertson
A Dilemma by S. Weir Mitchell
The Red-Headed League by A. Conan Doyle
One Hundred in the Dark by Owen Johnson
A Retrieved Reformation by O. Henry
Brother Leo by Phyllis Bottome
A Fight with Death by Ian Maclaren
The Dan-Nan-Ron by Fiona Macleod
followed by notes and comments and suggested questions for class.