“_Books that you may carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all_” —JOHNSON [Illustration: [Books]] STORIES OF NEW YORK [Illustration: [Couple]] STORIES FROM SCRIBNER ❦ STORIES OF NEW YORK [Illustration: [Woman]] NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS 1894 _Copyright, 1893, by Charles Scribner’s Sons_ _Trow Print_ STORIES OF NEW YORK ❦ FROM FOUR TO SIX A COMEDIETTA BY ANNIE ELIOT THE COMMONEST POSSIBLE STORY BY BLISS PERRY THE END OF THE BEGINNING BY GEORGE A. HIBBARD A PURITAN INGÉNUE BY JOHN S. WOOD MRS. MANSTEY’S VIEW BY EDITH WHARTON FROM FOUR TO SIX BY ANNIE ELIOT A COMEDIETTA IN ONE ACT [Illustration: [Woman]] ESTHER VAN DYKE. HAROLD WHITNEY. A MAID. ESTHER _discovered seated in a New York drawing-room. She has been reading and tearing old letters._