Ten Tales

Excerpt from introduction: "e;Among these ten there are tales of all sorts, from the tragic adventure of "e;An Accident"e; to the pendent portraits of the "e;Two Clowns,"e; cutting in its sarcasm, but not bitter-from "e;The Captain's Vices,"e; which suggests at once George Eliot's Silas Marner and Mr. Austin Dobson's Tale of Polypheme, to the sombre revery of the poet "e;At Table,"e; a sudden and searching light cast on the labor and misery which underlies the luxury of our complex modern existence. Like "e;At Table,"e; "e;A Dramatic Funeral"e; is a picture more than it is a story; it is a marvellous reproduction of the factitious emotion of the good-natured stage folk, who are prone to overact even their own griefs and joys. "e;A Dramatic Funeral"e; seems to me always as though it might be a painting of M. Jean Beraud, that most Parisian of artists, just as certain stories of M. Guy de Maupassant inevitably suggest the bold freedom of M. Forain's sketches in black-and-white."e;