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BY
EVELYN MAY ALBRIGHT, M.A.

INSTRUCTOR IN ENGLISH
OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
1907

THE aim of this book is not to trace the origin or the development of the short-story, but to set forth some standards of appreciation of what is good in story-writing, illustrating by the practice of the masters as contrasted with amateurish failures; this with the view of rousing the student to a more lively interest in his reading, and of awakening such a wholesome spirit of self-criticism as shall enable him to improve his own workmanship, should he feel called to write.