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Title: The Spinner's Book of Fiction

Author: Various

Release Date: January 11, 2007 [EBook #20343]

Language: English

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[Illustration: "THE DEVIL SIT IN FILON'S EYES AND LAUGH--LAUGH--SOME
TIME HE GO AWAY LIKE A MAN AT A WINDOW, BUT HE COME AGAIN.
M'siu, he live there!" From a Painting by E. Almond Withrow.]

THE SPINNERS' BOOK OF FICTION

BY

GERTRUDE ATHERTON, MARY AUSTIN
GERALDINE BONNER, MARY HALLECK FOOTE
ELEANOR GATES, JAMES HOPPER, JACK LONDON
BAILEY MILLARD, MIRIAM
MICHELSON, W. C. MORROW
FRANK NORRIS, HENRY MILNER RIDEOUT
CHARLES WARREN STODDARD, ISOBEL STRONG
RICHARD WALTON TULLY AND
HERMAN WHITAKER

WITH A DEDICATORY POEM BY GEORGE STERLING

COLLECTED BY THE BOOK COMMITTEE OF THE SPINNERS' CLUB

ILLUSTRATED BY LILLIE V. O'RYAN, MAYNARD DIXON ALBERTINE RANDALL
WHEELAN, MERLE JOHNSON E. ALMOND WITHROW AND GORDON ROSS INITIALS AND
DECORATIONS BY SPENCER WRIGHT

PAUL ELDER AND COMPANY SAN FRANCISCO AND NEW YORK

_Published in behalf_ _of The Spinners' Benefit Fund_
_Ina D. Coolbrith_ _First Beneficiary_
_Copyright_, 1907 _by_ PAUL ELDER AND COMPANY

* * * * *

TO INA D. COOLBRITH

WITH WILDER SIGHING IN THE PINE
THE WIND WENT BY, AND SO I DREAMED;
AND IN THAT DUSK OF SLEEP IT SEEMED
A CITY BY THE SEA WAS MINE.

TO STATELIER SPRANG THE WALLS OF TYRE
FROM SEAWARD CLIFF OR STABLE HILL;
AND LIGHT AND MUSIC MET TO FILL
THE SPLENDID COURTS OF HER DESIRE--

(EXTOLLING CHORDS THAT CRIED HER PRAISE,
AND GOLDEN REEDS WHOSE MELLOW MOAN