Table of Contents

       Introduction

       Biographical sketch by George Parsons Lathrop

       Short Stories:

       Twice-Told Tales (1837)

       The Gray Champion

       Sunday at Home

       The Wedding Knell

       The Minister’s Black Veil

       The Maypole of Merry Mount

       The Gentle Boy

       Mr. Higginbotham’s Catastrophe

       Little Annie’s Ramble

       Wakefield

       A Rill from the Town Pump

       The Great Carbuncle: A Mystery of the White Mountains

       The Prophetic Pictures

       David Swan

       Sights from a Steeple

       The Hollow of the Three Hills

       The Toll-gatherer’s Day

       The Vision of the Fountain

       Fancy’s Show-box

       Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment

       Legends of the Province House

       I. Howe’s Masquerade

       II. Edward Randolph’s Portrait

       III. Lady Eleanore’s Mantle

       IV. Old Esther Dudley

       The Haunted Mind

       The Village Uncle

       The Ambitious Guest

       The Sister-years

       Snowflakes

       The Seven Vagabonds

       The White Old Maid

       Peter Goldthwaite’s Treasure

       Chippings with a Chisel

       The Shaker Bridal

       Night-sketches

       Endicott and the Red Cross

       The Lily’s Quest

       Footprints on the Seashore

       Edward Fane’s Rosebud

       The Threefold Destiny

       The Whole History of Grandfather’s Chair (1840)

       Biographical Stories

       Benjamin West

       Sir Isaac Newton

       Samuel Johnson

       Oliver Cromwell

       Benjamin Franklin

       Queen Christina