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THE BEST SHORT STORIES OF 1921

AND THE

YEARBOOK OF THE AMERICAN SHORT STORY

EDITED BY

EDWARD J. O'BRIEN

EDITOR OF "THE BEST SHORT STORIES OF 1915"
"THE BEST SHORT STORIES OF 1916"
"THE BEST SHORT STORIES OF 1917"
"THE BEST SHORT STORIES OF 1918"
"THE BEST SHORT STORIES OF 1919"
"THE BEST SHORT STORIES OF 1920"
"THE GREAT MODERN ENGLISH STORIES," ETC

BOSTON
SMALL, MAYNARD & COMPANY
PUBLISHERS

Copyright, 1920, by John T. Frederick, Charles J. Finger, The DialPublishing Company, Inc., Charles Scribner's Sons, The InternationalMagazine Company, Harper & Brothers, and Smart Set Company, Inc.

Copyright, 1921, by The Boston Transcript Company.

Copyright, 1921, by B.W. Huebsch, The Century Company, John T.Frederick, George H. Doran Company, The Dial Publishing Company, Inc.,The Pictorial Review Company, The Curtis Publishing Company, The CrowellPublishing Company, Harper & Brothers, Charles Scribner's Sons, TheInternational Magazine Company, and Smart Set Company, Inc.

Copyright, 1921, by Boni & Liveright, Inc.

Copyright, 1922, by Maxwell Struthers Burt, George H. Doran Co., LincolnColcord, Waldo Frank, Katharine Fullerton Gerould, Doubleday, Page &Co., Glasgow, Susan Glaspell Cook, Richard Matthews Hallet, FrancesNoyes Hart, Fannie Hurst, Manuel Komroff, Frank Luther Mott, VincentO'Sullivan, Wilbur Daniel Steele, Harriet Maxon Thayer, Charles HansonTowne, and Mary Heaton Minor.

Copyright, 1922, by Small, Maynard & Company, Inc.

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

PRESS OF THE MURRAY PRINTING COMPANY
KENDALL SQUARE, CAMBRIDGE

TO A.E. COPPARD

BY WAY OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT

Grateful acknowledgment for permission to include the stories and othermaterial in this volume is made to the following authors, editors andpublishers:

To the Editor of The Century Magazine, the Editor of The Bookman,the Editor of The Dial, the Editor of The Pictorial Review, theEditor of The Saturday Evening Post, the Editor of The AmericanMagazine, the Editor of Scribner's Magazine, the Editor of GoodHousekeeping, the Editor of Harper's Magazine, the Editor of TheCosmopolitan, the Editors of The Smart Set, The Editor of TheMidland, Boni & Liveright, Inc., George H. Doran Co., B.W. Huebsch,Doubleday, Page & Co., Sherwood Anderson, Konrad Bercovici, MaxwellStruthers Burt, Irvin S. Cobb, Lincoln Colcord, Charles J. Finger, WaldoFrank, Katharine Fullerton Gerould, Ellen Glasgow, Susan Glaspell,Richard Matthews Hallet, Frances Noyes Hart, Fannie Hurst, ManuelKomroff, Frank Luther Mott, Vincent O'Sullivan, Wilbur Daniel Steele,Harriet Maxon Thayer, Charles Hanson Towne, and Mary Heaton Vorse.

Acknowledgments are specially due to The Boston Evening Transcript forpermission to reprint the large body of material previously published inits pages.

I shall be grateful to my readers for corrections, and particularly forsuggestions leading to the wider usefulness of this annual volume. Inparticular, I shall welcome the receipt, from authors, editors, andpublishers, of stories printed during the period between October, 1921and September, 1922 inclusive, which have qualities of distinction andyet are not printed in periodicals falling under my regular notice. Suchcommunications may be addressed to me at Forest Hill, Oxford