These three stories showcase the New Zealand writer Katherine Mansfield's ability to bring the subtle range of human experience into vivid focus, “full of vivid details and shimmering emotions,” as the novelist Margot Livesey puts it. “The Journey to Bruges” and “Being a Truthful Adventure” form a pair that allows us to follow along with a young Englishwoman’s wryly observed excursion to the Continent. “Something Childish but Very Natural” is a masterful exploration of a transitional moment in the journey from adolescence to adulthood: Mansfield (1888–1923) takes us through the comforts of naivety, the stirrings of love, and the encroachments of the so-called real world.