This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1963.

William Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862 - June 5, 1910), known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American writer. Henry's short stories are renowned for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization and clever twist endings.

Ilka on the Hill-Top and Other Stories by Boyesen is about Mr. Julius Hahn and his son as they travel through the beautiful Alpine meadows. Excerpt: "Mr. Julius Hahn and his son Fritz were on a summer journey in the Tyrol. They had started from Mayrhofen early in the afternoon, on two meek-eyed, spiritless farm horses, and they intended to reach Ginzling before nightfall. There was a great blaze of splendor hidden somewhere behind the western mountaintops; broad bars of fiery light were climbing the sky, and the châlets and the Alpine meadows shone in soft crimson illumination."