"It overflows with friendliness and enjoyment of life, and it furnishes a capital example of impressionistic writing."--_The Outlook._ THE VEILED LADY "These little stories are as entertaining as any he has written and we can recommend them confidently to his many admirers."--_New York Sun._ "They are exceedingly agreeable stories with an atmospheric quality which the versatile author imparts to them."--_Philadelphia Press._ AT CLOSE RANGE "These simple tales contain more of the real art of character-drawing than a score of novels of the day."--_New York Evening Post._ "He has set down with humorous compassion and wit the real life that we live every day."--_The Independent._ THE UNDER DOG "Mr. Hopkinson Smith's genius for sympathy finds full expression in his stories of human under dogs of one sort and another ... each serves as a centre for an episode, rapid, vivid, story-telling."--_The Nation._ THE FORTUNES OF OLIVER HORN "It is in the character-drawing that the author has done his best work. No three finer examples of women can be found than Margaret Grant, Sallie Horn, Oliver's mother, and Lavinia Clendenning, the charming old spinster."--_Louisville Courier-Journal._ THE ROMANCE OF AN OLD-FASHIONED GENTLEMAN "A breath of pure and invigorating fragrance out of the fogs and tempests of the day's fiction."--_Chicago Tribune._ THE WOOD FIRE IN No. 3 "None of Mr. Smith's writings have shown more delightfully his spirit of genial kindliness and sympathetic humor."--_Boston Herald._ COLONEL CARTER'S CHRISTMAS "The dear old colonel claims our smiles and our love as simply and as whole-heartedly as ever."--_Life._ THE NOVELS, STORIES AND SKETCHES OF F. HOPKINSON SMITH "He has always had unquestioning faith in the significance and interest of the simple, universal human experiences as they come to normal, brave, affectionate, gentle-mannered, or robust, untrained men and women. "As he looks at nature so he looks at man: with clear vision, with sympathy rather than curiosity; with an eye for the fine things in the rugged man and the vigorous, sinewy, self-sustaining woman, and for the natural virtues, the deep tenderness, the true-heartedness in the man of long descent and the woman of gentle breeding. "His style is singularly concise, exact, compact; possessed of a vitality which uses various arts of expression; his style is notable for concentration, solidity, reality."--HAMILTON W. MABIE. End of Project Gutenberg's The Wood Fire in No. 3, by F. Hopkinson Smith