Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images available at The Internet Archive) [Illustration: image of the book's cover] ATLANTIC NARRATIVES Modern Short Stories EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CHARLES SWAIN THOMAS, A. M. _Head of Department of English, Newton (Mass.) High School Lecturer in the Harvard Summer School_ [Illustration: colophon] The Atlantic Monthly Press BOSTON _Copyright, 1918, by_ THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY PRESS, INC. CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTION vii THE PRELIMINARIES _Cornelia A. P. Comer_ 1 BUTTERCUP-NIGHT _John Galsworthy_ 22 HEPATICAS _Anne Douglas Sedgwick_ 30 POSSESSING PRUDENCE _Amy Wentworth Stone_ 56 THE GLORY-BOX _Elizabeth Ashe_ 68 THE SPIRIT OF THE HERD _Dallas Lore Sharp_ 89 IN THE PASHA'S GARDEN _H. G. Dwight_ 98 LITTLE SELVES _Mary Lerner_ 121 THE FAILURE _Charles Caldwell Dobie_ 136 BUSINESS IS BUSINESS _Henry Seidel Canby_ 152 NOTHING _Zephine Humphrey_ 167 A MOTH OF PEACE _Katharine Fullerton Gerould_ 180 IN NO STRANGE LAND _Katharine Butler_ 201 LITTLE BROTHER _Madeleine Z. Doty_ 208 WHAT ROAD GOETH HE? _F. J. Louriet_ 217 THE CLEARER SIGHT _Ernest Starr_ 227 THE GARDEN OF MEMORIES _C. A. Mercer_ 252 THE CLEAREST VOICE _Margaret Sherwood_ 259 THE MARBLE CHILD _E. Nesbit_ 270 THE ONE LEFT _E. V. Lucas_ 283 THE LEGACY OF RICHARD HUGHES _Margaret Lynn_ 290 OF WATER AND THE SPIRIT _Margaret Prescott Montague_ 310 MR. SQUEM _Arthur Russell Taylor_ 326 BIOGRAPHICAL AND INTERPRETATIVE NOTES 337 INTRODUCTION THE SHORT STORY