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Stories by Foreign Authors (Polish-Greek-Belgian-Hungarian)

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Stories by Foreign Authors (Polish-Greek-Belgian-Hungarian) (1898)

Stories by Foreign Authors, Vol. 10
Fifty-one tales in ten volumes, comprising a careful selection of the best Continental short stories by contemporary or nearly contemporary writers, published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York

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STORIES BY

FOREIGN AUTHORS



POLISH, GREEK, BELGIAN,
HUNGARIAN


THE LIGHT-HOUSE KEEPER OF ASPINALL By Henryk Sienkiewicz
THE PLAIN SISTER By Demetrios Bikélas
THE MASSACRE OF THE INNOCENTS By Maurice Maeterlinck
SAINT NICHOLAS EVE By Camille Lemonnier
IN LOVE WITH THE CZARINA By Maurice Jokai



NEW YORK

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

1898

Copyright, 1898, by
Charles Scribner's Sons

PUBLISHERS' NOTE

The translations in this volume, where previously published, are used by arrangement with the owners of the copyrights (as specified at the beginning of each story). Translations made especially for the series are covered by its general copyright. All rights in both classes are reserved.

The portrait of Henryk Sienkiewicz prefixed to this volume is used by permission of Messrs. Little, Brown & Co., the authorized American publishers of Sienkiewicz's works.


CONTENTS

page
The Light-House of Aspinall Henryk Sienkiewicz 11
The Plain Sister Demetrios Bikélas 39
The Massacre of the Innocents Maurice Maeterlinck 95
Saint Nicholas Eve Camille Lemonnier 115
In Love with the Czarina Maurice Jokai 149