Pause to Wonder

The Judgement Seat by Maugham is given a copyright date of 1929, though it was not published until 1934 (A Somerset Maugham Encyclopedia-1997). Panic is a mix of short new pieces of people who thought Welles' broadcast was real, followed by a transcript of the radio play. Steinbeck's The Elf in Algiers is originally from a war dispatch from November 1943. The 2 stories from Synge are excerpts from his book The Aran Islands(1907). The excerpt from Livy is from his History of Rome. A Haunted House by Pliny the Younger is from his Letters. Story of Pygmalion & Philemon and Baucis are from Ovid's Metamorphoses. Orpheus and Eurydice is from Virgil's Georgics. St. Patrick of the Bells is excerpted from Book 3 of Lady Wilde's A Book of Saints and Wonders(1907). Mr. Valiant Summoned is an excerpt from Bunyan's The Pilgrims' Progress (1678). Pages from 567 to 572 are an Index of Authors. The following three stories are listed in the Index as by "Anonymous": "A Blazing Starre Seene in the West", "A Miracle of St. Goar" and "A Miracle of St. Scothinus". The title pages of these three stories do not have an author credit. The title page of "A Blazing Starre Seene in the West" reproduces the wording in the original 1642 pamphlet: "Printed for Jonas Wright, and I. H.". Some catalogs speculate that "Jonas Wright" may have been a bookseller, but apparently it's just a guess. The identity of "I. H." is unknown.