(1888) Notes [Pg vii] Portraits of Authors Introduction I. Definition and Development II. Forms III. The Short-story as Narration IV. Representative Short-stories V. Bibliography Washington Irving Edgar Allan Poe The Purloined Letter (1845) Nathaniel Hawthorne The Birthmark (1843) Francis Bret Harte Robert Louis Stevenson Markheim (1885) Rudyard Kipling Notes [Pg vii] LIST OF PORTRAITS