E-text prepared by Ron Swanson and revised by Robert J. Hall Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original artistic decorations and two phrases in Greek. See 16405-h.htm or 16405-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/6/4/0/16405/16405-h/16405-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/6/4/0/16405/16405-h.zip) +-------------------------------------------------+ | Little Classics. | | | | Edited by ROSSITER JOHNSON. Each in one volume, | | 16mo, $1.00. The set, in box, $18.00. | | | | 1. EXILE. 10. CHILDHOOD. | | 2. INTELLECT. 11. HEROISM. | | 3. TRAGEDY. 12. FORTUNE. | | 4. LIFE. 13. NARRATIVE POEMS. | | 5. LAUGHTER. 14. LYRICAL POEMS. | | 6. LOVE. 15. MINOR POEMS. | | 7. ROMANCE. 16. NATURE. | | 8. MYSTERY. 17. HUMANITY. | | 9. COMEDY. 18. AUTHORS. | | | | HOUGHTON MIFFLIN CO. | | BOSTON AND NEW YORK. | +-------------------------------------------------+ Eighth Volume LITTLE CLASSICS Edited by ROSSITER JOHNSON Mystery Boston and New York Houghton Mifflin Company The Riverside Press Cambridge 1914 Copyright, 1875, by James R. Osgood & Co. All Rights Reserved CONTENTS. THE GHOST. _William D. O'Connor_ THE FOUR-FIFTEEN EXPRESS _Amelia B. Edwards_ THE SIGNAL-MAN _Charles Dickens_ THE HAUNTED SHIPS _Allan Cunningham_ A RAFT THAT NO MAN MADE _Robert T. S. Lowell_ THE INVISIBLE PRINCESS _Francis O' Connor_ THE ADVOCATE'S WEDDING-DAY _Catherine Crowe_ THE BIRTHMARK _Nathaniel Hawthorne_ THE GHOST. BY WILLIAM D. O'CONNOR. At the West End of Boston is a quarter of some fifty streets, more or less, commonly known as Beacon Hill.