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| Elizabeth Jordan | The Little Joys of Margaret |
| Richard Le Gallienne | Kittie's Sister Josephine |
| Alice Brown | The Wizard's Touch |
| Charles B. De Camp | The Bitter Cup |
| Mary Applewhite Bacon | His Sister |
| Eleanor A. Hallowell | The Perfect Year |
| William Dean Howells | Editha |
| Octave Thanet | The Stout Miss Hopkins's Bicycle |
| Mary M. Mears | The Marrying of Esther |
| Julian Ralph | Cordelia's Night of Romance |
| E.A. Alexander | The Prize-Fund Beneficiary |
It is many years now since the American Girl began to engage theconsciousness of the American novelist. Before the expansive periodfollowing the Civil War, in the later eighteen-sixties and the earliereighteen-seventies, she had of course been his heroine, unless he wentabroad for one in court circles, or back for one in the feudal ages.Until the time noted, she had been a heroine and then a