Show t f BACK TO FICTION f r. Told Half Tales the first book boole at of fiction In five years by Henry Van Dyke will be published by Charles Scribners Scribner's Sons And apparently apt ap- ap t It Is no ordinary book of ot stories for as he says in his preface preface ace ace For a l long long- longtime mg time I have had It In mind to write some tales shorter r. r S. S than the shortest short stories storIes- marginal notes on the pages of life The idea was not to reduce the size of ot the stories by boiling down the method usually recommended by e editors In their perfunctory way but to leave the Insignificant things out of at the picture altogether and to give as nR much room to the significant significant significant cant things as might suffice to make them clear 1 |