Shapes that haunt the dusk

William Dean Howells, Henry Mills Alden

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• Langue: English
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Haunt the Dusk
EDITED BY
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS
AND
HENRY MILLS ALDEN
& Brothers PublishersHarper
New York and London
J907PSlil
Copyright, 1891, 1893, 1894, 1895, 1896, 1897, 1898,
HARPER & BROTHERS.1905, 1906, 1907, by
All rights reserved.GEORG SCHOCK
THE CHRISTMAS CHILD
RICHARD RICE
THE WHITE SLEEP OF AUBER
HURN
HOWARD PYLE
IN TENEBRAS
MADELENE YALE WYNNE
THE LITTLE ROOM
HARRIET LEWIS BRADLEY
THE BRINGING OF THE ROSE
HILDEGARDE HAWTHORNE
PERDITA
M. E. M. DAVIS
AT LA GLORIEUSE
F. D. MILLET
A FADED SCAPULAR
E. LEVI BROWN
AT THE HERMITAGE
H. W. McVICKAR
THE REPRISALIntroduction
of shortTHE writers American stories,
short stories in the sur-the best world,
in so much as in their hand-pass nothing
of those textures which clotheling filmy
be-the of the borderlandvague shapes
tween This isand illusion.experience
who seembecause ourperhaps people,
to live in the mostonly tangible things
of material live more inexistence, really
the than other. Their love ofspirit any
the is their common in-supernatural
heritance from no particular ancestry,
but is an effect fromapparently psycho-
influences in thelogical past, widely
in time and It isseparated place.
as noticeable our Southernersamong
of French race as our New-among
from Puritan zealotsEnglanders deriving
-accustomed to wonder working provi-
or those descendants ofdences, among
the German who withimmigrants brought
them to our Middle States the supersti-vi Introduction
tions of or the Hartzthe Rhine valleys
It is that hasMountains. something
the nature of our whole what-tinged life,
and when its colorever its varied sources,
seems out of it renewsgone us, or, going,
itself in all the and shad-mystical lights
familiar till we readows so to us that;
such tales those to-some as grouped
we are aware howgether here, scarcely
form of ourthelargely they complexion
andthinking feeling.
isThe in this volumeopening story
from a hand and wequite new, is, think,
of an excellence so freshquite absolute,
is it in andscene, character, incident,
so so accenteddelicately yet strongly by
a talent itself in atrying region hardly
visited fiction. Its realismyet by perfect
is consistent with the boldest toappeal
those instincts furthest fromprimitive
and its is asevery-day events, pathos
if it had withinaspoignant happened
In it is asour own itsknowledge. way,
wonder-as Mr.finely imaginative Pyle's
moralizedandfully spiritualized concep-
which he has real-tion of the other world
can com-ized on such terms as he alone
ofor as Mrs.mand; Wynne's symphony
will not havethrills and whichshudders,
one ac-died out of the nerves of any
Mr. Millet'swith it before.quainted