DARKNESS. By Irvin S. Cobb. 52
(From _The Saturday Evening Post_)

AN INSTRUMENT OF THE GODS. By Lincoln Colcord. 82
(From _The American Magazine_)

THE LIZARD GOD. By Charles J. Finger. 109
(From _All's Well_)

UNDER THE DOME. By Waldo Frank. 130
(From _The Dial_)

FRENCH EVA. By Katharine Fullerton Gerould. 142
(From _Scribner's Magazine_)

THE PAST. By Ellen Glasgow. 168
(From _Good Housekeeping_)

HIS SMILE. By Susan Glaspell. 194
(From _The Pictorial Review_)

THE HARBOR MASTER. By Richard Matthews Hallet. 207
(From _Harper's Magazine_)

GREEN GARDENS. By Frances Noyes Hart. 240
(From _Scribner's Magazine_)

SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY. By Fannie Hurst. 253
(From _The Cosmopolitan_)