An Alabaster Box by Mary Wilkins Freeman

Tale of a box, which is the thread that holds a collection of short romantic and mystery tales together.
Miss Lydia Orr's generosity to the town of Brookville is seen with suspicion from nearly everybody in the town and they're trying to figure out her motive in pouring out her wealth upon the inhabitants of the small, sleepy town. Little do they know that it has a lot to do with the town's past.  And of course, the alabaster box figures prominently in this part of the tales.

American Short Stories

22 short stories by American writers:
THE PROPHETIC PICTURES By Nathaniel Hawthorne
THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW By Washington Irving
THE GOLD-BUG By Edgar Allan Poe
CORPORAL FLINT'S MURDER (From "The Oak Openings") By J. Fenimore Cooper
UNCLE JIM AND UNCLE BILLY By Bret Harte
THE NOTARY OF PERIGUEUX By H. W. Longfellow
THE WIDOW'S CRUISE By F. R. Stockton
THE COUNT AND THE WEDDING QUEST By O. Henry
MISS TOOKER'S WEDDING GIFT By John Kendrick Bangs
THE FABLE OF THE TWO MANDOLIN PLAYERS AND THE WILLING PERFORMER By George Ade
THE FABLE OF THE PREACHER WHO FLEW HIS KITE, BUT NOT BECAUSE HE WISHED TO DO SO By George Ade
THE SHADOWS ON THE WALL By Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
MAJOR PERDUE'S BARGAIN By Joel Chandler Harris
A KENTUCKY CINDERELLA By F. Hopkinson Smith BY T
HE WATERS OF PARADISE By F. Marion Crawford A MEMORABLE NIGHT By Anna Katharine Green
THE MAN FROM RED DOG By Alfred Henry Lewis J
EAN MICHAUD'S LITTLE SHIP By Charles G. D. Roberts T
HOSE OLD LUNES! By W. Gilmore Simms THE CHIROPODIST By Bayard Taylor
"MR. DOOLEY ON CORPORAL PUNISHMENT" By F. P. Dunne OVER A WOOD FIRE Donald G. Mitchell--"Ik Marvel"

Adela Carthcart Volumes Ones and Two by George MacDonald

Adela Cathcart comes into contact with storytellers, and this is the result: a lexicon of stories that span two volumes. 

Abaft the Funnel by Rudyard Kipling

A series of short stories, sketches, and poems by Rudyard Kipling, author of the Jungle Book

A Wreath of Indian Stories by A. L. O. E