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Title: Glow-Worm Tales

Author and Title: James Payn. Glow-Worm Tales

First Edition: London: Chatto and Windus, 1887. 3 volumes, post 8vo, 31s 6d.

Serializations:

• "A Social Philosopher", Belgravia, December 1879
• "A Charade and its Consequences", Belgravia, February 1880
• "A Failure of Justice", Belgravia, February 1880
• "The Reduced Dinner Party", Belgravia, February 1881
• "Two Delicate Cases", Belgravia, February 1882
• "Jebb's Mantlepiece", Belgravia, February 1883
• "The Strange Bed", Belgravia, June 1881
• "An Anecdote of Instinct", Belgravia, May 1880
• "The Honest Farmer", Belgravia, October 1879
• "An Overrated Prescription", Belgravia, October 1880
• "The Victim of a Virtue", Belgravia, October 1881
• "A Club Benefactor", Belgravia, October 1882
• "A Dangerous Virtue", Belgravia, October 1883
• "An Arcadian Revenge", Cornhill Magazine, February 1880
• "The Guinea Box", Cornhill Magazine, June 1880
• "A Righteous Retribution", Cornhill Magazine, October 1884
• "Lost on Helvellyn", Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, 10 October 1863
• "Dick's Legacy", Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, 16 January 1864
• "The Lost Art at Classical Seminaries", Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, 17 March 1866
• "To Come in the Evening", Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, 5 April 1862
• "How I First Met Her", Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, 7 February 1863
• "A Game of Brag", Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, 7 May 1864
• "One of Two", Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, 9 January 1864
• "An Improvement on a System", Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, 9 May 1863

Summary: According to the author's note, the stories are reprinted from Cornhill Magazine, Belgravia, and Chamber's Magazine.

Title Tags:

• Genre: Short Story Collections

References: BL; EC

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