Excerpt from Short StoriesThe series of collections of which this volume is a part is made up of representative work of the women of the State of New York in periodical literature.This literature has been classified under its conspicuous divisions - Poetry, Fiction, History, Art, Biography, Translation, Literary Criticism, and the like.A woman of eminent success in each department has then been asked to make a collection of representative work in that department, to include in it an example of her own work, and to place her name upon the volume as its Editor.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.