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• 3 • The Execution of Milady • short story by Alexandre Dumas
• 8 • The Blind Beggar of Salamanca • short story by Diego Hurtado de Mendoza
• 13 • The Nerve-Water • short story by Rudolph Greinz
• 17 • The Word of the Law • short story by James Morier
• 21 • The Weird Penitent • short story by uncredited
• 25 • The Sea Fight Off Salamis • short story by Aeschylus
• 29 • George Washington • short story by William Makepeace Thackeray
• 33 • Perilous Wooing • short story by
  Björnstjerne Björnson^?Bjoernstjerne Bjoernson
• 37 • The Horse Brings a Bride • short story by Gautier de Coinci
• 41 • Taras Executes His Son • short story by
  Николай Гоголь^?Nikolai Gogol
  (trans. of Taras Executes His Son) [as by Nickolaus Gogol]
• 45 • The Avenger of the Vehm-Gericht • short story by Sir Walter Scott [as by Walter Scott]
• 49 • The Ships That Came in Time • short story by James Fenimore Cooper
• 53 • Hereward the Wake and the Fairy Bear • short story by Charles Kingsley
• 58 • The Blossom of the Brenta • short story by Baron Franz von Gaudy
• 63 • Jeremiah Mulcahy's Dream • short story by John Banim and Michael Banim
• 67 • Lohengrin • short story by Richard Wagner (composer)
• 70 • The Translated Soldado • short story by Thomas J. Nanvier
• 74 • The Magician's Secret • short story by Matilde Serao
• 78 • How the Princess of Solesia Fooled the King of the Underworld • short story by
  Johann Karl August Musäus^?Johann Karl August Musaeus
  (trans. of How the Princess of Solesia Fooled the King of the Underworld) [as by Johann Karl August Musous]
• 83 • Christmas Blesses Old Scrooge • short story by Charles Dickens
• 88 • The Man Who Was Visited by Christ • short story by
  Лев Толстой^?Lev Tolstoy
  (trans. of The Man Who Was Visited by Christ) [as by Leo Tolstoy]
• 93 • The Christmas Banquet • (1843) • short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 98 • The Art of Virtue • short story by Benjamin Franklin
• 101 • A Legend of Napoleon • short story by
  Honoré de Balzac^?Honore de Balzac
  (trans. of A Legend of Napoleon) [as by Honore Balzac]
• 105 • Lieutenant Doubledick's Revenge • short story by Charles Dickens
• 109 • The Clocks of Basle • short story by uncredited
• 112 • How the Devil Was Sent Abroad in Holy Russia • short story by
  Лев Толстой^?Lev Tolstoy
  (trans. of How the Devil Was Sent Abroad in Holy Russia) [as by Leo Tolstoy]
• 116 • Shakuntala • short story by Kalidasa
• 121 • The Secret Visit • short story by Ivan Vazow
• 125 • The Cavern of Stenfoll • [Das Wirtshaus im Spessart / The Inn in the Spessart • 4] • novelette by Wilhelm Hauff (trans. of Die Höhle von Steenfoll: Eine schottländische Sage 1827)