The Independent . hese writers were in-fluenced by Europeanmodels, they at leastinfluenced the emphasizing newelements they aided inmaking the short storywhat it is today. Morerecent writers havealso become famous inthe field of the shortstory. O. Henry, withfreedom from re-straint, with pith, pointand easy humor, wonwide popularity. Rich-ard Harding Davis andMary E. Wilkins Free-man, the one drawingmaterial from city life,the other from life inthe remoter parts ofNew England, havegone beneath the sur-face and seen some-thing of the depths oflife. There is everyreason to be proud ofAm
The Independent . hese writers were in-fluenced by Europeanmodels, they at leastinfluenced the emphasizing newelements they aided inmaking the short storywhat it is today. Morerecent writers havealso become famous inthe field of the shortstory. O. Henry, withfreedom from re-straint, with pith, pointand easy humor, wonwide popularity. Rich-ard Harding Davis andMary E. Wilkins Free-man, the one drawingmaterial from city life,the other from life inthe remoter parts ofNew England, havegone beneath the sur-face and seen some-thing of the depths oflife. There is everyreason to be proud ofAmerican short the past their influ-ence was in the direc-tion of form; in thepresent it is towarddignity and worth. The stories chosenfor reproduction in TheIndependent are rep-resentative in manyways. They illustratethe American shortstory from the time ofWashington Irving tothe present, showinghow the easy-going talegave place to thehighly centralized nar-rative of single of eight. WASHINGTON 1KVING great American authors, the stories have strong biographicinterest. In attitude they illustrate romance and realism,humor and pathos, symbolism and impressionism. Geo-graphically they concern the old world, the mountains andfarms of New England, rough frontier life in the West, andthe lives of the rich and of the poor in cosmopolitan NewYork. They are founded on elemental subjects: love, ambi-tion, fear, self-sacrifice, jealousy, sympathy and anger. Ingeneral they show the development from the vague and far-away toward the actual—toward that higher realism thatis a sympathetic understanding of life. Those who read the eight stories and the introductorycriticisms will gain, we hope, added interest in the shortstory as an artistic form, new appreciation of our Americanwriters, and a delightful refreshing of the memory by re-reading stories that have given pleasure for many years. The Legend of the Rose of the Alhambra is a pleasingexample of the tal
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