



Produced by Al Haines









[Frontispiece: W. Clark Russell]




INTERNATIONAL SHORT STORIES




EDITED BY

WILLIAM PATTEN


  A NEW COLLECTION OF
  FAMOUS EXAMPLES
  FROM THE LITERATURES
  OF ENGLAND, FRANCE
  AND AMERICA




ENGLISH




P F COLLIER & SON

NEW YORK




Copyright, 1910

BY P. F. COLLIER & SON


The use of the copyrighted stories in this collection has been
authorized in each case by their authors or by their representatives.




ENGLISH STORIES


THE TWO DROVERS ................. By Sir Walter Scott

MR. DEUCEACE...................  By W. M. Thackeray

THE BROTHERS..................  Edward Bulmer Lytton

DOCTOR MANETTE'S MANUSCRIPT ...........  By Charles Dickens

THE CALDRON OF OIL................. By Wilkie Collins

THE BURIAL OF THE TITHE ............... By Samuel Lover

THE KNIGHTSBRIDGE MYSTERY .............  By Charles Reade

THE COURTING OF DINAH SHADD ...........  By Rudyard Kipling

THE SIRE DE MALETROIT'S DOOR...........  By R. L. Stevenson

THE SECRET OF GORESTHORPE GRANGE