•I This little booklet makes no pretense to give more
than a glimpse of O. Henry and a convenient guide to
his books. The sketches by Mr. Arthur Page and
Richard Duffy are reprinted through the courtesy of
the authors and editors of The Bookman, in which they
originally appeared with the illustrations. The Index
is not for sale; it may be had by any one who requests
it. For such as it is the compiler offers it as a tribute
in friendship to H. P. S., who would have liked to see
it done.
E. F. S.
LITTLE PICTURES OF O. HENRY

By ARTHUR W. PAGE
I — Born and "Raised" in No'th Ca'lina

" The hero of the story will be a man horn and 'raised' in a somnolent
little Southern town. His education is about u common school, hut
he learns afterward from reading and life. I'm going to try to give
him a style in narrative and speech — the best I've got in the shop."

These words are 0. Henry's own.
I

In Greensboro, North Carolina, at the time of Will Porter's youth
there were four classes of people: decent white folks, mean white
folks, decent "niggers" and mean "niggers." Will Porter and his
people belonged to the first class. During the time that he was
growing up there were about twenty-five hundred people in Greens-
boro. It was a simple democratic little place with rather more
intellectual ambitions than most places of its size, but without the
hum of modern industry which the cotton mills have latterly brought
to it or the great swarm of eager students that now flock to the
State Normal School.
