Produced by Al Haines [Frontispiece: Anna Katharine Green] INTERNATIONAL SHORT STORIES EDITED BY WILLIAM PATTEN A NEW COLLECTION OF FAMOUS EXAMPLES FROM THE LITERATURES OF ENGLAND, FRANCE AND AMERICA AMERICAN 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. AMERICAN STORIES THE PROPHETIC PICTURES . . . . . . . . . . . . By Nathaniel Hawthorne THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW . . . . . . . . . . By Washington Irving THE GOLD-BUG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . By Edgar Allan Poe CORPORAL FLINT'S MURDER . . . . . . . . . . . . By J. Fenimore Cooper (From "The Oak Openings") UNCLE JIM AND UNCLE BILLY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . By Bret Harte THE NOTARY OF PERIGUEUX . . . . . . . . . . . . . By H. W. Longfellow THE WIDOW'S CRUISE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . By F. R. Stockton THE COUNT AND THE WEDDING QUEST . . . . . . . . . . . . . By O. Henry MISS TOOKER'S WEDDING GIFT . . . . . . . . . . By John Kendrick Bangs THE FABLE OF THE TWO MANDOLIN PLAYERS AND THE WILLING PERFORMER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . By George Ade THE FABLE OF THE PREACHER WHO FLEW HIS KITE, BUT NOT BECAUSE HE WISHED TO DO SO . . . . . . . . . . By George Ade THE SHADOWS ON THE WALL . . . . . . . . . By Mary E. Wilkins Freeman MAJOR PERDUE'S BARGAIN . . . . . . . . . . . . By Joel Chandler Harris A KENTUCKY CINDERELLA . . . . . . . . . . . . . By F. Hopkinson Smith BY THE WATERS OF PARADISE . . . . . . . . . . . By F. Marion Crawford A MEMORABLE NIGHT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . By Anna Katharine Green THE MAN FROM RED DOG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . By Alfred Henry Lewis JEAN MICHAUD'S LITTLE SHIP . . . . . . . . . By Charles G. D. Roberts THOSE OLD LUNES! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . By W. Gilmore Simms THE CHIROPODIST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . By Bayard Taylor "MR. DOOLEY ON CORPORAL PUNISHMENT" . . . . . . . . . By F. P. Dunne OVER A WOOD FIRE . . . . . . . . . . . Donald G. Mitchell--"Ik Marvel" THE PROPHETIC PICTURES[1] By NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE [1] This story was suggested by an anecdote of Stuart, related in Dunlap's "History of the Arts of Design"--a most entertaining book to the general reader, and a deeply interesting one, we should think, to the artist.