Burning Love. Translated by William Guild Howard 77 EDUARD VON KEYSERLING Gay Hearts. Translated by Bayard Quincy Morgan 101 THOMAS MANN Tonio Kröger. Translated by Bayard Quincy Morgan 184 LUDWIG THOMA Matt the Holy. Translated by Bayard Quincy Morgan 251 RUDOLF HANS BARTSCH The Styrian Wine-Carter. Translated by Bayard Quincy Morgan 268 EMIL STRAUSS Mara. Translated by William Guild Howard 285 HERMANN HESSE In the Old "Sun." Translated by A. I. du P. Coleman 325 ERNST ZAHN Stephen the Smith. Translated by Katharine Royce 373 JAKOB SCHAFFNER The Iron Idol. Translated by Mrs. Amelia von Ende 456 ILLUSTRATIONS--VOLUME XIX PAGE Autumn. By Karl Haider _Frontispiece_ Helene Böhlau 2 Wife of a Clamdigger. By Hans von Bartels 32 Folksong. By K. Reutlingen 52 Clara Viebig 78 A Portrait. By Adolf Münzer 102 The Gossips. By Friedrich Wahle 142 Little Curiosity. By Julius Exter 172 Thomas Mann 186 Arco. By Benno Becker 226 Ludwig Thoma 252 Rudolf Hans Bartsch 270 Back from the Fair. By Franz Wilhelm Voigt 286 Hermann Hesse 326 A Human Load. By Franz Wilhelm Voigt 336 Flower Market at Leyden. By Hans Herrmann 356 Ernst Zahn 374 Evening. By Ludwig Dill 400 Moonrise in the Moor. By Otto Modersohn 420 Forest Meadows. By Oscar Frenzel 450 Moorland. By Otto Modersohn 480 THE CONTEMPORARY SHORT STORY By Julius Petersen, Ph.D. Professor of German Literature, University of Basel TRANSLATED BY WILLIAM GUILD HOWARD