Preface
Some of the stories in this volume have already appeared in print. “The Red-haired Girl” in The Windsor Magazine; “Colonel Halifax’s Ghost Story” in The Illustrated English Magazine; “Glámr” I told in my Iceland: Its Scenes and Sagas, published in 1863, and long ago out of print. “The Bold Venture” appeared in The Graphic; “The 9.30 Up-train” as long ago as 1853 in Once a Week.