GREAT SHORT STORIES OF ALL NATIONS. Selected by Maxim Lieber
and Blanche Colton Williams. (Harrap. 8s. 6d.)—This book is explained by its secondary title, " one hundred and fifty-eight complete short stories from all periods and countries," and, as may be readily imagined, a finer entertainment in one volume has rarely been provided at so low a price. Here is a whole year's good reading in trains and station waiting-rooms, and anyone possessing this book becomes at once independent of the bookstalls for his supply of ppeeriodical fiction. The short story fits into modern life perhaps more neatly than any other form of literature—it is just the right length to fill up spaces in a world that seems to be in more of a hurry than it once was ; and readers may be sure that everything in this volume is good art as well as entertainment. This is the most useful introduction to the art of short-story writing, and to the work of its greatest exponents, that has ever been published in a really compact form.
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