This venerable 1937 volume contains 8 short stories plus one novel extract, all by British and US authors. I found it of historical interest due to the the eponymous tale by Edward Everett Hale, a work whose nationalism / patriotism probably does not wear well today. Overall, I did not find the collection to be especially interesting or notable, but it probably served its purpose back in the 1940s and 1950s.

The works included are listed below; some are indicated with my ratings on a five star scale.

"Man Without a Country", by Edward Everett Hale
"My Double and How He Outdid Me", also by Hale
"The Phantom Rickshaw" by Rudyard Kipling
"The Bedford Row Conspiracy" by William Makepeace Thackeray
"The Case of General Ople and Lady Camper", by George Meredith (**)
"The Pavilion on the Links", by Robert Louis Stevenson (*)
"A Terribly Strange Bed" by Wilkie Collins (*)
"The Capture of Bill Sikes" (from Oliver Twist) by Charles Dickens
"Mademoiselle Olympe Zabriskie" by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (*) ( )