TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES: In the plain text version text in italics is enclosed by underscores (_italics_), small caps are represented in upper case as in SMALL CAPS and words in bold are represented as in =bold=. A number of words in this book have both hyphenated and non-hyphenated variants. For the words with both variants present the one more used has been kept. Obvious punctuation and other printing errors have been corrected. The book cover was modified by the Transcriber and has been added to the public domain. * * * * * [Illustration: =Hermann Sudermann=] SHORT STORY CLASSICS (FOREIGN) VOLUME THREE GERMAN [Illustration] EDITED BY William Patten WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES [Illustration] P. F. COLLIER & SON NEW YORK Copyright 1907 By P. F. Collier & Son The use of the copyrighted translations in this collection has been authorized by the authors or their representatives. The translations made especially for this collection are covered by the general copyright CONTENTS-VOLUME III PAGE THE BROKEN CUP JOHANN HEINRICH DANIEL ZSCHOKKE 663 CASTLE NEIDECK WILHELM HEINRICH VON RIEHL 691 THE YOUNG GIRL OF TREPPI PAUL JOHANN LUDWIG HEYSE 739 THE STONEBREAKERS FERDINAND VON SAAR 793 THOU SHALT NOT KILL LEOPOLD VON SACHER-MASOCH 839 THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH RUDOLF BAUMBACH 849 GOOD BLOOD ERNST VON WILDENBRUCH 863 DELIVERANCE MAX SIMON NORDAU 903 A NEW-YEAR’S EVE CONFESSION HERMANN SUDERMANN 917 BRIC-A-BRAC AND DESTINIES GABRIELE REUTER 929 THE FUR COAT LUDWIG FULDA 939 THE DEAD ARE SILENT ARTHUR SCHNITZLER 955 MARGRET’S PILGRIMAGE CLARA VIEBIG 981