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THE PRELIMINARIES _Cornelia A. P. Comer_ 1

BUTTERCUP-NIGHT _John Galsworthy_ 22

HEPATICAS _Anne Douglas Sedgwick_ 30

POSSESSING PRUDENCE _Amy Wentworth Stone_ 56

THE GLORY-BOX _Elizabeth Ashe_ 68

THE SPIRIT OF THE HERD _Dallas Lore Sharp_ 89

IN THE PASHA'S GARDEN _H. G. Dwight_ 98

LITTLE SELVES _Mary Lerner_ 121

THE FAILURE _Charles Caldwell Dobie_ 136

BUSINESS IS BUSINESS _Henry Seidel Canby_ 152

NOTHING _Zephine Humphrey_ 167

A MOTH OF PEACE _Katharine Fullerton Gerould_ 180

IN NO STRANGE LAND _Katharine Butler_ 201

LITTLE BROTHER _Madeleine Z. Doty_ 208

WHAT ROAD GOETH HE? _F. J. Louriet_ 217

THE CLEARER SIGHT _Ernest Starr_ 227

THE GARDEN OF MEMORIES _C. A. Mercer_ 252

THE CLEAREST VOICE _Margaret Sherwood_ 259

THE MARBLE CHILD _E. Nesbit_ 270

THE ONE LEFT _E. V. Lucas_ 283

THE LEGACY OF RICHARD HUGHES _Margaret Lynn_ 290

OF WATER AND THE SPIRIT _Margaret Prescott Montague_ 310

MR. SQUEM _Arthur Russell Taylor_ 326

BIOGRAPHICAL AND INTERPRETATIVE NOTES 337