Contents 1
1．The Bear William Faulkner 1
2．The Whistle Eudora Welty 7
3．The Life and Work of Professor Roy Millen Robert Penn Warren 20
4．The Ballet Dancer Jane Mayhall 32
5．Herb Gathering Truman Capote 39
6．Two Mutes Carson McCullers 45
7．The Great Fire of 1945 Margaret Shedd 58
8．The Jersey Heifer Peggy Harding Love 70
9．A Visit to the Grandfather's Grave James Turner Jackson 84
10．Natives Don't Cry Kay Boyle 89
11．Rosie William Van Buskirk 103
12．The Treasure Game H．E．Bates 107
13．The Duck J．B．Priestley 123
14．A Special Occasion Joyce Cary 127
15．Bookshops in Paris Aldous Huxley 135
16．A World of Glass William Sansom 140
17．A Hemingway Sample Caroline Gordon 145
18．Kant the Man W．Somerset Maugham 150
19．In Dreams Begin Responsibilities 160
Delmore Schwartz 160
20．A Mountain Adventure Gerald Warner Brace 173
21．Father and Daughter James Yaffe 191
22．Merry Christmas William Saroyan 196
23．D-Day Winston S．Churchill 203
24．A Student in Economics George Milburn 211
25．Prescott Van Wyck Brooks 237
26．Man and Woman Erskine Caldwell 255
27．A Pretty Girl Max Beerbohm 268
28．Her Graduation Day Nancy G．Chaikin 275
29．Emergency Landing John Cheever 282
30．Romeo Charles Jackson 287
31．Dialogues of A．N．Whitehead Lucien Price 311
32．Michael and Mary Seumas O'Kelly 322
33．University Days James G．Thurber 338
34．British Bicycles in Spain Robert Graves 347
35．The Reigning Royalty of Europe David Cecil 352
36．A Professor in Retirement Jean Stafford 358
37．A Writer's Life Catherine Drinker Bowen 373
38．Skeffington's Decision to Run for Re-election Edwin O'Connor 392
39．Moon Shell Anne Morrow Lindbergh 403
40．Invite John O'Hara 414
41．Captain Carlsen Thomas Whiteside 423
校记后 428