Chapter I: The East

NEW ENGLAND

_A New England Nun_; _A Humble Romance_, Mary Wilkins-Freeman. _Meadow-Grass_; _The Country Road_, Alice Brown. _A White Heron_; _The Queen's Twin_, Sarah Orne Jewett. _Pratt Portraits_; _Later Pratt Portraits_, Anna Fuller. _The Village Watch Tower_, Kate Douglas Wiggin. _The Old Home House_, Joseph C. Lincoln. _Hillsboro People_, Dorothy Canfield. _Out of Gloucester_; _The Crested Seas_, James B. Connolly. _Under the Crust_, Thomas Nelson Page. _Dumb Foxglove_, Annie T. Slosson. _Huckleberries Gathered From New England Hills_, Rose Terry Cooke.

NEW YORK CITY

_The Four Million_; _The Voice of the City_; _The Trimmed Lamp_, O. Henry. _Van Bibber and Others_, Richard Harding Davis. _Doctor Rast_, James Oppenheim. _Toomey and Others_, Robert Shackleton. _Vignettes of Manhattan_, Brander Matthews. _The Imported Bridegroom_, Abraham Cahan. _Little Citizens_; _Little Aliens_, Myra Kelly. _The Soul of the Street_, Norman Duncan. _Wall Street Stories_, Edwin Le Fevre. _The Optimist_, Susan Faber. _Every Soul Hath Its Song_, Fannie Hurst.

NEW JERSEY

_Hulgate of Mogador_, Sewell Ford. _Edgewater People_, Mary Wilkins-Freeman.

PENNSYLVANIA

_Old Chester Tales_; _Doctor Lavender's People_, Margaret Deland. _Betrothal of Elypholate_, Helen R. Martin. _The Passing of Thomas_, Thomas A. Janvier. _The Standard Bearers_, Katherine Mayo. _Six Stars_, Nelson Lloyd.