Invitation to romance -- I Far away and long ago -- The wife of bath's tale / G. Chaucer -- How Sandro Botticelli saw Simonetta in the spring / M. Hewlett -- Story of a piebald horse / W. H. Hudson -- Blue roses / L. Y. Tarleau -- Thirty clocks strike the hour / V. Sackville-West -- II Tales of adventure -- Wandering Willie's tale / Sir W. Scott -- The cheerful tortoise / J. N. Hall -- The flying highwayman / L. de la Torre -- The army of the shadows / E. Ambler -- The trail of the sandhill stag / E. Thompson Seton -- III The world within -- The mark on the wall / V. Woolf -- The doll's house / K. Mansfield -- The pardon / M. Kinnan Rawlings -- The wharf / W. de la Mare -- IV Fantasy and the supernatural -- Curious if true / M. Gaskell -- The wedding jest / J. Branch Cabell -- The marriage of the puppets / R. Nathan -- Ann Mellor's lover / M. Bowen -- The three sleeping boys of Warwickshire / W. de la Mare -- V The romance of curious incident -- The Sire de Maletroit's door / R. L. Stevenson -- A tradition of eighteen hundred and four / T. Hardy -- The two sisters of Cologne / Anonymous -- The scoured silk / J. Shearing -- VI Aspects of the American dream -- Endicott and the red cross / N. Hawthorne -- Natchez / J. Hergesheimer -- Smoke on the prairie / C. Richter -- The bride comes to Yellow Sky / S. Crane -- The leader of the people / J. Steinbeck -- VII The way of a man with a maid / The coming of Pan / J. Stephens -- The lagoon / J. Conrad -- Faithful Jenny dove / E. Farjeon -- The three fates / S. V. Benet -- Down bayou dubac / B. Benefield -- Sophistication / S. Anderson -- Sousa / L. Y. Tarleau -- VIII Romance still lives -- The cherry tree / A. E. Coppard -- A municipal report / O. Henry -- The queen's twin / S. O. Jewett -- Dark in the forest, strange as time / T. Wolfe -- Half-holiday / A. Huxley -- Mr. Know-all / W. S. Maugham -- The big man / L. A. G. Strong.
