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 STORIES BY AMERICAN AUTHORS "These tales are well selected. They credit- ably represent many of our most successful and admired tale writers, and afford another and impressive proof of the reluctant admission made by the London Saturday Review, that the most successful tale writers are Americans." Hartford Times.

"They have been selected with excellent judgment, and in bringing this entire collection of sketches together from the various period- icals in which they have appeared the publishers have shown that our literature is more fertile than has been hitherto supposed in writers who have mastered the difficult art of story writing." Boston Saturday Evening Gazette. VOLUME I. WHO WAS SHE? Bayard Taylor THE DOCUMENTS IN THE CASE Brander Matthews and H. C. Bunner ONE OF THE THIRTY PIECES. William Henry Bishop BALACCHI BROTHERS. . . Rebecca Harding Davis AN OPERATION IN MONEY. Albert Webster