The second volume of a 3 volume anthology, this work focuses on 'English' short stories, although it includes writers from other parts of the British isles. It features pieces by William Thackeray, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, J.M. Barrie and many other favorites. Topics range from historical to science fiction, melodramatic to philosophic. - Summary by Lynne Thompson
The Two Drovers by Sir Walter Scott Mr. Deuceace: Dimond Cut Dimond by William Thackeray The Brothers: A Tale by Edward Bulwer Lytton Dr. Manette's Manuscript by Charles Dickens The Caldron Of Oil by Wilkie Collins The Burial Of The Tithe by Samuel Lover The Knightbridge Mystery by Charles Reade The Courting Of Dinah Shadd by Rudyard Kipling The Sire De Maletroit's Door by Robert Louis Stevenson The Secret Of Goresthorpe Grange by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle A Change Of Treatment by W. W. Jacobs The Stickit Minister by S. R. Crockett The Lammas Preaching by S. R. Crockett An Undergraduate's Aunt by F. Anstey The Silhouettes by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch My Brother Henry by J. M. Barrie Gilray's Flower-Pot by J. M. Barrie Mr. O'Leary's Second Love by Charles Lever The Indifference Of Miller Hofbau by Anthony Hope Hawkins The Stolen Body by H. G. Wells The Lazarette Of The "Huntress" by W. Clark Russell The Great Triangular Duel by Captain Frederick Marryat The Three Thimbles And A Pea by George Borrow