Excerpt from Short-Story Masterpieces, Vol. 1: French A single example may serve to illustrate the application of these tests. Here, let us imagine, are two short-stories written in French and by Frenchmen. The one deals with a base-ball game, played in Hawaii. Its argot is that of the dia mond and its attitude is that of the frenzied fan. The tone and the Hawaiian background will furnish local-color enough. The second story has for its theme...