All the works of this writer are being translated into English. The title given above in English is a translated collection of some of his short stories. ALICE FRENCH (Octave Thanet). _Stories of a Western Town._ ELIZABETH GASKELL (1810-65). _Cranford._ JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE (1749-1832). _Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship and Travels._ In Carlyle’s translation. OLIVER GOLDSMITH (1728-74). _The Vicar of Wakefield._ _She Stoops to Conquer._ _The Good-Natured Man._ KENNETH GRAHAME. _The Golden Age._ _Dream Days._ JAKOB AND WILHELM GRIMM. _Fairy Tales._ In _Everyman’s Library_. EDWARD EVERETT HALE (1822-1909). _The Man Without a Country._ The volume under this title, published by Little, Brown & Co., contains the best of Dr. Hale’s short stories. The title story is a masterpiece of fiction and the greatest of all sermons on patriotism. LUDOVIC HALÉVY. _The Abbé Constantin._ A charming story in simple French, and to be found translated into English. THOMAS HARDY. _Far from the Madding Crowd._ _The Return of the Native._ _The Mayor of Casterbridge._ _A Pair of Blue Eyes._ _Under the Greenwood Tree._ Incomparably the greatest of living novelists of our race. Certain characteristics of his later novels make them neither pleasant nor intelligible to young readers, but any of those here mentioned is as well adapted to the reader of any age as are George Eliot’s “Adam Bede” and Thackeray’s “Pendennis.” JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS. _Uncle Remus._ _Nights with Uncle Remus._ _Mingo._ _Free Joe._ FRANCIS BRET HARTE (1839-1902). _The Luck of Roaring Camp._ The volume of this title, published by Houghton, Mifflin & Co., contains the best of Harte’s short stories, and the best remain very good indeed, though since they took the world by storm other writers have given us a truer insight into the life which Harte was the first to discover and proclaim. Harte is a capital humorist in his way, both in his swaggering hearty short stories (see “Colonel Starbottle’s Client”) and in his parodies (see “Condensed Novels”). NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE (1804-64). No list of titles is necessary under Hawthorne’s name. America has no other literary artist of his stature and perfection, and he is the one American whose works we can say “you ought to read” entire--we dare say it, that is, to American readers. MAURICE HEWLETT. _Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay._ Mr. Hewlett is one of the ten or twelve important living writers of English fiction. I have seen no book of his which is not good. I give only one title; his brilliant and varied achievement in the past decade makes difficult the selection of other titles for this limited list. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES (1809-94). _Elsie Venner._ _Guardian Angel._