قراءة كتاب The Spinners' Book of Fiction
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"the devil sit in filon's eyes
and laugh—laugh—some time he go away like
a man at a window, but he come again.
M'siu, he live there!"
From a Painting by E. Almond Withrow
THE
SPINNERS' BOOK OF
FICTION
BY
Gertrude Atherton, Mary Austin
Geraldine Bonner, Mary Halleck Foote
Eleanor Gates, James Hopper, Jack London
Bailey Millard, Miriam Michelson, W. C. Morrow
Frank Norris, Henry Milner Rideout
Charles Warren Stoddard, Isobel Strong
Richard Walton Tully and
Herman Whitaker
With a dedicatory poem by
George Sterling
COLLECTED BY THE
BOOK COMMITTEE OF THE
SPINNERS' CLUB
Illustrated by
Lillie V. O'Ryan, Maynard Dixon
Albertine Randall Wheelan, Merle Johnson
E. Almond Withrow and Gordon Ross
Initials and decorations by
Spencer Wright
PAUL ELDER AND COMPANY
SAN FRANCISCO AND NEW YORK
Published in behalf
of The Spinners' Benefit Fund
Ina D. Coolbrith
First Beneficiary
———
Copyright, 1907
by Paul Elder and Company
TO INA D. COOLBRITH
The wind went by, and so I dreamed;
And in that dusk of sleep it seemed
A city by the sea was mine.
From seaward cliff or stable hill;
And light and music met to fill
The splendid courts of her desire—
And golden reeds whose mellow moan
Was like an ocean's undertone
Dying and lost on forest ways).
That rang or rippled in her halls,
Was one beyond her eastern walls,
By summer gardens girdled round.
The song it sang hath never word!
Sweeter it seemed than Love's, first-heard,
Or lutes in Aidenn murmuring low.
A sisterhood of faery bells,
It won reply from hidden dells,
Loyal to Echo for its sake....
How many dreamland seasons fled,
Nor what horizon of the dead
Gave back my dream's uncertain day.
I lay, and saw—for walls o'ergrown—
The city that was mine had known
Time's sure and ancient treachery.
The grasses' mounting army broke;
The shadow of the sprawling oak
Usurpt the splendor of her fires.
I heard, like elfin melodies
Blown over from enchanted seas,
The music of the nightingale.
George Sterling.
THE STORIES
| Concha Argüello, Sister Dominica by Gertrude Atherton |
| The Ford of Crèvecœur by Mary Austin |
| A Californian by Geraldine Bonner |
| Gideon's Knock by Mary Halleck Foote |
| A Yellow Man and a White by Eleanor Gates |
| The Judgment of Man by James Hopper |
| The League of the Old Men by Jack London |
| Down the Flume with the Sneath Piano by Bailey Millard |
| The Contumacy of Sarah L. Walker by Miriam Michelson |
| Breaking Through by W. C. Morrow |
| A Lost Story by Frank Norris |
| Hantu by Henry Milner Rideout |