| Chapter No. | Chapter Title | Chapter Author | Page No. |
| Introductory essay | J A Hammerton | 1 |
| A young man and his many friends | Juan Manuel | 7 |
| The naked king | " " | 10 |
| The biter bit | Anonymous | 13 |
| How Lazaro became the servant of an esquire | Diego H de Mendoza | 14 |
| How Guzman excited the compassion of the Cardinal | Mateo Aleman | 29 |
| The pretended aunt | Miguel de cervantes | 33 |
| The vision of the catchpole possessed | Francisco de Quevedo | 46 |
| The dumb lover and his physician | Matias de los Reyes | 55 |
| An andalusian duel | Serafin E Calderon | 62 |
| The architect's wife | Antonio de Trueba | 66 |
| The fairy kiss | Juan Valera | 74 |
| The archibishop's cook | " " | 80 |
| The eloquent basque | " " | 82 |
| That tail woman | Pedro A de Alarcon | 85 |
| The patriot traitor | " " | 101 |
| The cornet player | " " | 109 |
| The account-book | " " | 119 |
| Maese Perez, the organist | Gustavo Adolfo Bacquer | 124 |
| Modern life | Eusebio Blasco | 135 |
| The rustic cobbler | " " | 143 |
| Tierra - Tragona | Carlos Coello | 146 |
| The Southern Express | Emilia pardo Bazan | 152 |
| The pink pearl | " " | 157 |
| The green fly | " " | 162 |
| The well of life | " " | 167 |
| A pair of scissors | " " | 171 |
| First love | " " | 176 |
| Doctor Pertinax | "Clarin" (L.Alas) | 182 |
| My burial | " " | 189 |
| The bird in the snow | Armando Palacio Valdes | 196 |
| The curate's colt | " " | 207 |
| After the battle | Jacingto Octavio Picon | 212 |
| Gasparon's revenge | " " | 220 |
| The condemned | Vicente Blasco Ibanez | 226 |
| Eve and the poor | " " | 231 |
| The tomb of Ali-bellus | " " | 235 |
| The bourgeois king | Ruben Dario | 239 |
| The water nymph | | 243 |
| The blue bird | " " | 247 |
| The curse of tongues | Jose Fernandez Bremon | 250 |
| A silken cord | " " | 263 |
| The expression | Jose Frances | 268 |
| From bulto to coracha | Arturo Reyes | 274 |
| What a tear can do | " " | 280 |
| Fear | Ramon del Valle-Inclan | 286 |
| Lucky Boy! | " " | 290 |
| Her father's slave | Elias Zerolo | 293 |
| Flowering heather | Carmen de Burgos | 304 |
| La Mulata | Juan de Dios Peza | 308 |
| THE PORTUGUESE STORY-TELLERS | | |
| The village priest | J A Hammerton | 315 |
| The last bull-fight in salvaterra | Joao Rebello da Silva | 317 |
| Good example | Brito Aranha | 336 |
| The greater burden | Rodrigo Paganino | 345 |
| The fisherman of Lessa da Palmeira | Julio Cesar Machado | 353 |
| The great clock of strassburg | Theophilo Braga | 366 |
| The three brothers and the treasure | Jose M Eca de Queiroz | 372 |
| Her son | Jose V Fialho d' Almeida | 380 |
| The cup of tea | Affonso Botelho | 387 |
| The sick nurse | Joaquim M M de Assis | 395 |
