Three stories in the 1952 anthology, 2 of which are completely dated

Reading further in the Milton Crane 1952 anthology, 50 Great Short Stories, still kept in print by Bantam Classics, a few observations: Shouldn't Bantam at least change the title, to let the buyer beware that these stories were selected about 80 years ago and that this anthology, if it's an attempt to survey the field, which it was, is ridiculously out of date? The collection skews heavily toward English language, is predominantly male (though to be fair the major female writers of its time are included), is I think entirely white - so it's a historical curiosity as much as a reader's anthology. The 3 stories I read yesterday give a sense of the limitations. First, a story by Kipling, The Courtship of Jenny Branch, or something like that, a soldier's tale related to what today we'd call an embedded reporter w/ some British troops doing an exercise in India. I can only think of Strunk & White's principle: Don't write dialect unless your ear is good. Kipling's is pretty good, which doesn't make this tedious tale of drink and carousing any more interesting; the one nice moment of pathos, however, is when the narrator reflects on the life and fate of the men gathered around the campfire, a beautiful moment in an otherwise forgettable tale. And what about the John O'Hara selection - Graven Image - which not only is by no means his best story but is one that would hold little interest for most readers then for sure and now as well: a business meeting between 2 successful men, one of whom still holds a grudge about a social-club snub in their Harvard days. This is one of the best stories of the century? Pushkin's "The Shot" is the best of the 3, a strange tale of vengeance in 19th-century Russia - worth reading, but if you were to place it beside almost anything by Chekhov you'd see how Chekhov lets the characters and events in his fiction grow and change and suffer whereas Pushkin depends much more on actin, drama, and extremes of coincidence.