SELECTED ENGLISH SHORT STORIES (XIX AND XX CENTURIES), edited
by _H.S.M._ (Oxford University Press). This volume has the merit of
containing in very short compass twenty-eight stories by English and
American authors, not too conventionally selected, which would form
admirable texts for a short story course. It includes stories by Mark
Rutherford and Richard Garnett which are likely to be unfamiliar to most
readers, and if taken in conjunction with the previous volume in the
same series, provides a tolerably complete conspectus of the development
of the short story in England and America since 1800.
ORIGINAL SINNERS, by _Henry W. Nevinson_ (B.W. Huebsch, Inc.).
It has always been a mystery to me why Mr. Nevinson's short stories are
so little known to American readers. His earlier volumes "The Plea of
Pan" and "Between the Acts," are eagerly sought by collectors, but they
have been permitted to go out of print, I believe, and the general
public knows very little about them. To nine out of ten people, Mr.
Nevinson is known as a publicist and war correspondent, but it is by his
short stories that he will live longest, and the present volume is one
more illustration of the place which has always been occupied in English
literature by the gifted amateur. The stories in the present volume all
lead back by implication to the golden age, and if Mr.
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