acknowledgment for permission to include the stories and other material in this volume is made to the following authors, editors, and publishers:
To Miss Margaret C. Anderson, the Editor of Harper's Magazine, the Editor of The Dial, the Editor of The Metropolitan, Mr. John T. Frederick, the Editor of Scribner's Magazine, the Editor of Collier's Weekly, the Editor of The Cosmopolitan Magazine, the Editor of The Pictorial Review, the Curtis Publishing Company, Mr. Sherwood Anderson, Miss Edwina Stanton Babcock, Mr. Konrad Bercovici, Miss Edna Clare Bryner, Mr. Wadsworth Camp, Mrs. Helen Coale Crew, Mrs. Katharine Fullerton Gerould, Mr. Lee Foster Hartman, Major Rupert Hughes, Mrs. Grace Sartwell Mason, Mr. James Oppenheim, Mr. Arthur Somers Roche, Mrs. Rose Sidney, Mrs. Fleta Campbell Springer, Mr. Wilbur Daniel Steele, Mrs. A. E. Thomas, Mr. John T. Wheelwright, Mr. Stephen French Whitman, Mr. Ben Ames Williams, and Mrs. Frances Gilchrist Wood.
Acknowledgments are specially due to The Boston Evening Transcript for permission to reprint the large body of material previously published in its pages.
I shall be grateful to my readers for corrections, and particularly for suggestions leading to the wider usefulness of this annual volume. In particular, I shall welcome the receipt, from authors, editors, and publishers, of stories printed during the period between October, 1920 and September, 1921 inclusive, which have qualities of distinction, and yet are not printed in periodicals falling under my regular notice. Such communications may be addressed to me at Forest Hill, Oxfordshire, England.
E. J. O.
CONTENTS[1]
| Introduction. | By the Editor |
| The Other Woman. | By Sherwood Anderson (From The Little Review) |
| Gargoyle. | By Edwina Stanton Babcock (From Harper's Magazine) |
| Ghitza. | By Konrad Bercovici (From The Dial) |
| The Life of Five Points. | By Edna Clare Bryner (From The Dial) |
| The Signal Tower. | By Wadsworth Camp (From The Metropolitan) |
| The Parting Genius. | By Helen Coale Crew (From The Midland) |
| Habakkuk. | By Katharine Fullerton Gerould (From Scribner's Magazine) |
| The Judgment of Vulcan. | By Lee Foster Hartman (From Harper's Magazine) |
| The Stick-in-the-Muds. | By Rupert Hughes (From Collier's Weekly) |
| His Job. | By Grace Sartwell Mason (From Scribner's Magazine) |
| The Rending. | By James Oppenheim (From The Dial) |
| The Dummy-Chucker. | By Arthur Somers Roche (From The Cosmopolitan) |
| Butterflies. | By Rose Sidney (From The Pictorial Review) |
| The Rotter. | By Fleta Campbell Springer (From Harper's Magazine) |
| Out of Exile. | By Wilbur Daniel Steele (From The Pictorial Review) |
| The Three Telegrams. | By Ethel Storm (From The Ladies' Home Journal) |
| The Roman Bath. | By John T. Wheelwright (From Scribner's Magazine) |
| Amazement. | By Stephen French Whitman (From Harper's Magazine) |
| Sheener. | By Ben Ames Williams (From Collier's Weekly) |
| Turkey Red. | By Frances Gilchrist Wood (From The Pictorial Review) |
| The Yearbook of the American Short Story, October, 1919, to September, 1920 | |
| Addresses of American Magazines Publishing Short Stories | |
| The Bibliographical Roll of Honor of American Short Stories | |
