Foreword, by Alexander Woollcott.--Preface to "All men are brothers", by Shih Nai-an.--The lady's maid's bell, by Edith Wharton.--Joe, by Gustav Eckstein.--A Christmas garland, by Max Beerbohm.--The portrait of M. M., by D. H. Lawrence.--Two friends, by Willa Cather.--Cakes and ale, or, The skeleton in the cupboard, by W. S. Maugham.--Boswell and the girl from Botany bay, by F. A. Pottle.--The golden age, by Kenneth Grahame.--Peter Rugg, the missing man, by William Austin.--My Aunt Daisy, by Albert Halper.--Three stories by Dorothy Parker: The little hours. Arrangement in black and white. The waltz.--Big two-hearted river, by Ernest Hemingway.--The self-help of G. J. Smith, by William Bolitho.--All kneeling, by Anne Parrish.--Whilomville stories, by Stephen Crane.--To the Reverend Dr. Hyde, by R. L. Stevenson.--Rab and his friends, by Dr. John Brown.--God and my father, by Clarence Day.--Thanksgiving proclamation, by Governor W. L. Cross.