Tales of a thumb-sized Jewish boy and his adventures, each emphasizing some celebration or holy day of the Jewish religion.

    Hers is, one soon discovers, also a wholly feminine voice: compelling, filled with insight, acute at observation, sure of its tone, and everywhere discovering the reality behind human appearances and pretensions. This is a remarkable collection of short stories by a brilliant young writer who was cut off in her prime when she died of cancer in 1945. On being told that her second husband has taken his first lover --After the party --The times so unsettled are --Mother to dinner --Relax is all --Jobs in the sky --White on black --The mouse-trap --Missis Flinders --the Friedmans' Annie --The answer on the magnolia tree --A life in the day of a writer

    Jame S. Gale and by Jessie McLaren. These are likely the first English translations of ancient Korean poetry.

    BousfieldThe Earlier Service by Margaret IrwinLazarus Returns by Guy EndoreBreakdown (1929) by L.A.G. StrongThe Man Who Liked Dickens (1933) by Evelyn WaughThe Open Door (1881) by Margaret Oliphant [as by Mrs. Oliphant]The Reptile (1926) by Augustus MuirThe Music on the Hill (1911) by SakiThe Canary (1931) by F. Tennyson JesseThe Great God Pan (1894) by Arthur Machen The Red Room (1896) by H.G. WellsThe Leech of Folkestone (1931) by R.H. BarhamSmee (1929) by A.M. BurrageOne Who Saw (1931) by A.M. BurrageThe Pipe-Smoker (1932) by Martin ArmstrongThe Angelus by William YoungerThe Case of M. Valdemar (1924) by Edgar Allan PoeEl Verdugo (1830) by Honoré de BalzacA la Tartare by E.M. WinchThe Ghoul (1916) by Hugh CliffordThe Dead Smile (1899) by F. Marion CrawfordArabesque: The Mouse (1920) by A.E. CoppardThe Last Chukka by Alec WaughMr. Meldrum's Mania (1931) by John MetcalfeA Terribly Strange Bed (1852) by Wilkie CollinsThe Hand (1919) by Theodore DreiserThe Bird (1916) by Thomas BurkeThe Treasure of Abbott Thomas by M.R. JamesAn Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1890) by Ambrose BierceThe Silver Mask (1932) by Hugh WalpoleThe Judge's House (1891) by Bram StokerThe Feet by Mark ChanningThe Call of the Hand (1919) by Louis GoldingThe House by Bernard BromageAll Hallows (1926) by Walter de la MareThe Price of the Head (1916) by John RussellThe Island of the Ud (1912) by William Hope HodgsonThe Whistling Room (1910) by William Hope HodgsonThe Derelict (1912) by William Hope HodgsonThe Snake (1933) by Dennis Wheatley