He followed up his first volume by two short novels, _The Midge_ and _The Story of a New York House_. Then he undertook the writing of the short story, his first book being _Zadoc Pine and other Stories_. The title story of this book contains a very humorous and faithful delineation of a New Englander who is transplanted to a New Jersey suburb. Soon after writing this he began to read the short stories of Guy de Maupassant. He admired them so much that he half translated, half adapted a number of them, and published them under the title _Made in France_. Then he tried writing stories of his own, in the manner of de Maupassant, and produced in _Short Sixes_ a group of stories which are models of concise narrative, crisply told, artistic in form, and often with a touch of surprise at the end. Other volumes of short stories are _More Short Sixes_, and _Love in Old Cloathes_. _Jersey Street and Jersey Lane_ was a book which grew out of his Nutley life. He also wrote a play, _The Tower of Babel_, which was produced by Marie Wainwright in 1883. He died at Nutley, May 11, 1896. He was one of the first American authors to develop the short story as we know it to-day, and few of his successors have surpassed him in the light, sure style and the firmness of construction which are characteristic of his later work. SOCIETY IN OUR TOWN _Life in a small town, which means any place of less than a hundred thousand people, is more interesting than life in a big city. Both places have their notables, but in the small town you know these people, in the city you only read about them in the papers._ IN OUR TOWN _is a series of portraits of the people of a typical small city of the Middle West, seen through the keen eyes of a newspaper editor. This story tells how the question of the social leadership of the town was finally settled._ THE PASSING OF PRISCILLA WINTHROP BY WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE