Better late …

.… Summer Shorts in a Wide Range of Styles by Stefan Kanfer, City Journal 11 July 2014. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

… one of [William Cullen Bryant's] greatest achievements has gone unrecognized by schools, universities, and even scholars of American literature. Bryant was the most inventive short-story writer between Washington Irving and Edgar Allan Poe. Now, after decades of neglect, those fictions have become available in a trade paperback, scrupulously edited and annotated by Frank Gado, professor emeritus of Union College in upstate New York.