Produced by Charles Bowen, from images obtained from The Internet Archive. VOLUME XIX * * * * * * HELENE BÖHLAU CLARA VIEBIG EDUARD VON KEYSERLING THOMAS MANN LUDWIG THOMA RUDOLF HANS BARTSCH EMIL STRAUSS HERMANN HESSE ERNST ZAHN JAKOB SCHAFFNER [Illustration: AUTUMN] THE GERMAN CLASSICS OF The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH Editor-in-Chief KUNO FRANCKE, Ph.D., LL.D., Litt.D. Professor of the History of German Culture and Curator of the Germanic Museum, Harvard University Assistant Editor-in-Chief WILLIAM GUILD HOWARD, A.M. Assistant Professor of German, Harvard University In Twenty Volumes Illustrated THE GERMAN PUBLICATION SOCIETY NEW YORK Copyright 1914. by THE GERMAN PUBLICATION SOCIETY CONTRIBUTORS AND TRANSLATORS VOLUME XIX * * * * * * Special Writers JULIUS PETERSEN, Ph.D., Professor of German Literature, University of Basel: The Contemporary Short Story. Translators BAYARD QUINCY MORGAN, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of German, University of Wisconsin: Gay Hearts; Tonio Kröger; Matt the Holy; The Styrian Wine-Carter. WILLIAM GUILD HOWARD, A.M., Assistant Professor of German, Harvard University: Burning Love; Mara. KATHARINE ROYCE: Stephen the Smith. A. I. DU P. COLEMAN, A.M., Professor of English Literature, College of the City of New York: The Ball of Crystal; In the Old "Sun." MRS. AMELIA VON ENDE: The Iron Idol. CONTENTS OF VOLUME XIX PAGE The Contemporary Short Story. By Julius Petersen xi HELENE BÖHLAU The Ball of Crystal. Translated by A. I. du P. Coleman 1 CLARA VIEBIG