Each story preceded by a biographical sketch of the author.
Gold-mounted guns / F.R. Buckley -- England to America / Margaret Prescott Montague -- The whirligig of life / O. Henry -- The penalties of Artemis / Katharine Fullerton Gerould -- Tol'able David / Joseph Hergesheimer -- The kitchen gods / Gulielma F. Alsop -- Clothes make the man / Booth Tarkington -- The monkey's paw / W.W. Jacobs -- The trawler / James B. Connolly -- As a dog should / Charles Alexander -- Blue murder / Wilbur Daniel Steele -- 'Lijah / Edgar Valentine Smith -- Basquerie / Eleanor Mercein Kelly -- Miss Hinch / Henry Sydnor Harrison -- A source of irritation / Stacy Aumonier -- Legend / Fleta Campbell Springer -- Innocence / Rose Wilder Lane -- Because of the dollars / Joseph Conrad
pt. 1. The stories.--pt. 2. Studying the stories.--pt. 3. Appendix