BUT O'ER THE FALLEN MARBLES PALE I HEARD, LIKE ELFIN MELODIES BLOWN OVER FROM ENCHANTED SEAS, THE MUSIC OF THE NIGHTINGALE. GEORGE STERLING. THE STORIES CONCHA ARGUeELLO, SISTER DOMINICA _by Gertrude Atherton_ THE FORD OF CREVECOEUR _by Mary Austin_ A CALIFORNIAN _by Geraldine Bonner_ GIDEON'S KNOCK _by Mary Halleck Foote_ A YELLOW MAN AND A WHITE _by Eleanor Gates_ THE JUDGMENT OF MAN _by James Hopper_ THE LEAGUE OF THE OLD MEN _by Jack London_ DOWN THE FLUME WITH THE SNEATH PIANO _by Bailey Millard_ THE CONTUMACY OF SARAH L. WALKER _by Miriam Michelson_ BREAKING THROUGH _by W. C. Morrow_ A LOST STORY _by Frank Norris_ HANTU _by Henry Milner Rideout_ MISS. JUNO _by Charles Warren Stoddard_ A LITTLE SAVAGE GENTLEMAN _by Isobel Strong_ LOVE AND ADVERTISING _by Richard Walton Tully_ THE TEWANA _by Herman Whitaker_ THE ILLUSTRATIONS "The devil sit in Filon's eyes and laugh--laugh--some time he go away like a man at a window, but he come again. M'siu, he _live_ there!" _from a painting by E. Almond Withrow_ "She was always very sweet, our Concha, but there never was a time when you could take a liberty with her." _from a painting by Lillie V. O'Ryan_ "The petal of a plum blossom." _from a painting by Albertine Randall Wheelan_ "Not twenty feet from me Miller sat upright in his canoe as if petrified." _Opp. Page_ _from a painting by Merle Johnson_ "All their ways lead to death." _from a painting by Maynard Dixon_ "Dawn was flooding the east, and still the boy lurched and floundered on and on." _from a painting by Gordon Ross_ WHEREFORE? _Wherefore this book of fiction by Californian writers? And why its appeal otherwise than that of obvious esthetic and literary qualities? They who read what follows will know._ _The fund, which the sale of this book is purposed to aid, was planned by The Spinners soon after the eighteenth of April, 1906, and was started with two hundred dollars from their treasury. To this, Mrs. Gertrude Atherton added another two hundred dollars. Several women's clubs and private individuals also generously responded, so that now there is a thousand dollars to the credit of the fund. A bond has been bought and the interest from it will be paid to Ina D. Coolbrith, the poet, and first chosen beneficiary of the fund. The Spinners feel assured that this book will meet with such a ready sale as to make possible the purchase of several bonds, and so render the accruing interest a steady source of aid to Miss. Coolbrith._ _All who have read and fallen under the charm of her "Songs from the Golden Gate," or felt the beauty and tenderness of the verses "When the Grass Shall Cover Me," will, without question, unite in making "assurance doubly sure" to such end._