<p><strong>CONTENTS </strong></p> <ul> <li>INTRODUCTION</li> <li>ESTHER, From the Old Testament</li> <li>THE HISTORY OF ALI BABA AND THE FORTY ROBBERS, From "The Arabian Nights"</li> <li>RIP VAN WINKLE, By Washington Irving</li> <li>THE GOLD-BUG, By Edgar Allan Poe</li> <li>A CHRISTMAS CAROL, By Charles Dickens</li> <li>THE GREAT STONE FACE, By Nathaniel Hawthorne</li> <li>RAB AND HIS FRIENDS, By Dr. John Brown</li> <li>THE OUTCASTS OF POKER FLAT, By Bret Harte</li> <li>MARKHEIM, By Robert Louis Stevenson</li> <li>THE NECKLACE, By Guy de Maupassant</li> <li>THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING, By Rudyard Kipling</li> <li>THE GIFT OF THE MAGI, By O. Henry</li> </ul>