A BARGAIN IN BOOKS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20862, 2 May 1931, Page 10 (Supplement)

A BARGAIN IN BOOKS.

GREAT ENGLISH SHORT STORIES, (

Notable service to English literature and the legions of short-story devotees has been performed by Lev/is Melville and Reginald Hargreaves in preparing for Harrap's " Great English Short Stories," a companion to the great omnibus volumes of./ recent years. Over 80 6tories from the times of Barnaby lliche, Deloney, Defoe, Swift and Addison, up to the modern writers such as Chesterton, Suki, St./ Mars, and Bartimeus, are in tho collection, which, from any reader's point of views, must represent the bqst bargain in books for many a day. As interesting as many of the stories is the editor's introduction which discusses tho development of the short story and some of the more notable writers. The contents tipjiold their contention that the English author has every claim to ecfuality with the great Continental writers as exponents of the art of short story writing. The editors also state that some modern authors declined to be represented in the volume. That is the loss of the authors concerned —the book does not reflect it. Great English Short Stories" is an ideal companion for the coming winter. . " Great English Short Stories," by Lewis {Melville and Reginald Hargreaves. (Harxap.)