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Excerpt from The Stories of H. C. Bunner: First Series, With an Introductory Note by Brander Matthews
It is now more than a quarter of a century since the most of the stories now gathered into this vol ume were first published. In the superabundant productivity of our writers of fiction the compe tition is incessant and deadly. Few, indeed, are the novels and the briefer tales which can hold their own even for a decade, and fewer yet are those which have to be brought out in new editions in response to the popular demand a score of years after their author has let the pen slip from his hand for the last time. This is the fortunate fate which has now befallen the short-stories of H. C. Bunner.
He was born at Oswego, New York, on August 3, 1855, and he died at Nutley, New Jersey, on May 11, 1896, cut short in a literary career wherein he had not attained to his full power. He had had a thorough schooling and prepared for Columbia 001 lege, which he was unable to enter - to his abiding regret. After a brief experience in an importing house, he became a newspaper man. When Puck began to be published in English he joined its staff.
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