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THE
BEST SHORT STORIES
OF 1917

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," ETC.
BOSTON

SMALL, MAYNARD & COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1918, by The Boston Transcript Company
Copyright, 1917, by The Pictorial Review Company, The Century Company, Charles Scribner's Sons, The

Curtis Publishing Company, Harper & Brothers, The Metropolitan Magazine Company, The Atlantic Monthly
Company, The Crowell Publishing Company, The International Magazine Company, The Pagan Publishing
Company, The Stratford Journal, and The Boston Transcript Company

Copyright, 1918, by Edwina Stanton Babcock, Thomas Beer, Maxwell Struthers Burt, Francis Buzzell, Irvin S. Cobb, Charles Caldwell Dobie, H. G. Dwight, Edna Ferber, Katharine Fullerton Gerould, Susan Glaspell Cook, Frederick Stuart Greene, Richard Matthews Hallet, Fannie Hurst, Fanny Kemble Costello, Burton Kline, Vincent O'Sullivan, Lawrence Perry, Mary Brecht Pulver, Wilbur Daniel Steele, and Mary Synon

Copyright, 1918, by Edward J. O'Brien
Copyright, 1918, by Small, Maynard & Company, Inc.

Fourth printing, January, 1919
Fifth printing, September, 1919
Sixth printing, August, 1920

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Seventh printing, August, 1921
TO
WILBUR DANIEL STEELE
BY WAY OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Grateful acknowledgment for permission to include the stories and other material in this volume is made to
the following authors, editors, publishers, and copyright holders:

To The Pictorial Review Company and Miss Edwina Stanton Babcock for permission to reprint "The
Excursion," first published in The Pictorial Review; to The Century Company and Mr. Thomas Beer for
permission to reprint "Onnie," first published in The Century Magazine; to Charles Scribner's Sons and Mr.
Maxwell Struthers Burt for permission to reprint "A Cup of Tea," first published in Scribner's Magazine; to
The Pictorial Review Company and Mr. Francis Buzzell for permission to reprint "Lonely Places," first
published in The Pictorial Review; to The Curtis Publishing Company and Mr. Irvin S. Cobb for permission to
reprint "Boys Will Be Boys," first published in The Saturday Evening Post; to Harper and Brothers and Mr.
Charles Caldwell Dobie for permission to reprint "Laughter," first published in Harper's Magazine; to The
Century Company and Mr. H. G. Dwight for permission to reprint "The Emperor of Elam," first published in

The Century Magazine; to The Metropolitan Magazine Company and Miss Edna Ferber for permission to
reprint "The Gay Old Dog," first published in The Metropolitan Magazine; to The Atlantic Monthly Company
and Mrs. Katharine Fullerton Gerould for permission to reprint "The Knight's Move," first published inThe
Atlantic Monthly; to The Crowell Publishing Company, the editor of Every Week, and Mrs. George Cram
Cook for permission to reprint "A Jury of Her Peers," by Susan Glaspell, first published in Every Week and
The Associated Sunday Magazines; to The Century Company and Captain Frederick Stuart Greene for

permission to reprint "The Bunker Mouse," first published in The Century Magazine; to Mr. Paul R. Reynolds
for confirmation of Captain Greene's permission; to The Pictorial Review Company and Mr. Richard
Matthews Hallet for permission to reprint "Rainbow Pete," first published in The Pictorial Review; to The
International Magazine Company, the editor of The Cosmopolitan Magazine, and Miss Fannie Hurst for
permission to reprint "Get Ready the Wreaths," first published in The Cosmopolitan Magazine; to the editor of

The Pagan and Mrs. Vincent Costello for permission to reprint "The Strange-Looking Man," by Fanny
Kemble Johnson, first published in The Pagan; to The Stratford Journal, the editor of The Stratford Journal,
and Mr. Burton Kline for permission to reprint "The Caller in the Night," first published in The Stratford
Journal; to The Boston Transcript Company and Mr. Vincent O'Sullivan for permission to reprint "The

Interval," first published in The Boston Evening Transcript; to Charles Scribner's Sons and Mr. Lawrence
Perry for permission to reprint "'A Certain Rich Man—,'" first published in Scribner's Magazine; to The
Curtis Publishing Company and Mrs. Mary Brecht Pulver for permission to reprint "The Path of Glory," first
published in The Saturday Evening Post; to The Pictorial Review Company and Mr. Wilbur Daniel Steele for
permission to reprint "Ching, Ching, Chinaman," first published in The Pictorial Review; and to Harper and
Brothers and Miss Mary Synon for permission to reprint "None So Blind," first published inHarper's

Magazine.
Acknowledgments are specially due to The Boston Evening Transcript and The Bookman for permission to
reprint the large body of material previously published in their pages.
I wish specially to express my gratitude to the following who have materially assisted by their efforts and
advice in making this year-book of American fiction possible and more nearly complete:
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Mrs. Padraic Colum, Mr. A. A. Boyden, Mr. Ellery Sedgwick, Mr. Henry A. Bellows, Mr. Herman E.
Cassino, Mr. G. G. Wyant, Mr. Burton Kline, Mr. Douglas Z. Doty, Mr. Barry Benefield, Mr. T. R. Smith,
Mr. Frederick Lewis Allen, Mr. Henry J. Forman, Miss Honoré Willsie, Mr. Harold Hersey, Mr. Bruce
Barton, Miss Bernice Brown, Miss Mariel Brady, Mr. William Frederick Bigelow, Mr. John Chapman Hilder,
Mr. Thomas B. Wells, Mr. Lee Foster Hartman, Mr. Sewell Haggard, Mr. Samuel W. Hippler, Mr. Joseph
Bernard Rethy, Mr. Karl Edwin Harriman, Mr. Christopher Morley, Miss Margaret Anderson, Mrs. Hughes
Cornell, Miss Myra G. Reed, Mr. Merrill Rogers, Mr. Charles Hanson Towne, Mr. Carl Hovey, Miss Sonya
Levien, Mr. John T. Frederick, Mr. Ival McPeak, Mr. Robert H. Davis, Mrs. R. M. Hallowell, Mr. Harold T.
Pulsifer, Mr. Wyndham Martyn, Mr. Frank Harris, Mr. Robert W. Sneddon, Miss Rose L. Ellerbe, Mr. Arthur
T. Vance, Miss Jane Lee, Mr. Joseph Kling, Mr. William Marion Reedy, Mr. Leo Pasvolsky, Mr. Churchill
Williams, Mr. Robert Bridges, Mr. Waldo Frank, Mr. H. E. Maule, Mr. Henry L. Mencken, Mr. Robert
Thomas Hardy, Miss Anne Rankin, Mr. Henry T. Schnittkind, Dr. Isaac Goldberg, Mr. Charles K. Field, Mrs.
Mary Fanton Roberts, Miss Sarah Field Splint, Miss Mabel Barker, Mr. Hayden Carruth, Mrs. Kathleen
Norris, Mrs. Ethel Hoe, Miss Mildred Cram, Miss Dorothea Lawrance Mann, Miss Hilda Baker, Mr. William
Stanley Braithwaite, Mr. Frank Owen, Mr. Alexander Harvey, Mr. Seumas O'Brien, Madame Gaston
Lachaise, Mr. John J. Phillips, Mr. Sylvester Baxter, Miss Alice Brown, Mr. Francis Buzzell, Mr. Will
Levington Comfort, Mr. Robert A. Parker, Mr. Randolph Edgar, Miss Augusta B. Fowler, Captain Frederick
Stuart Greene, Mr. Emanuel Haldeman-Julius, Mr. Reginald Wright Kauffman, Mr. J. B. Kerfoot, Mrs. Elsie
S. Lewars, Miss Jeannette Marks, Mr. W. M. Clayton, Mr. Vincent O'Sullivan, Mr. Henry Wallace Phillips,
Mr. Melville Davisson Post, Mr. John D. Sabine, Mr. Richard Barker Shelton, Mrs. A. M. Scruggs, Miss May
Selley, Mr. Daniel J. Shea, Mr. Vincent Starrett, Mr. M. M. Stearns, Mrs. Ann Watkins, Dr. Blanche Colton
Williams, Mr. Edward P. Nagel, Mr. G. Humphrey, Rev. J.-F. Raiche, Mr. Wilbur Daniel Steele, Miss Louise
Rand Bascom, Mr. Octavus Roy Cohen, Mr. Robert Cumberland, Mr. Charles Divine, Mr. Frank C. Dodd,
Mr. William R. Kane, Mr. David Gibson, Miss Ida Warren Gould, Miss Ella E. Hirsch, Miss Marie Louise
Kinsella, Mr. Frank E. Lohn, Mrs. Margaret Medbury, Miss Anna Mitchell, Mr. Robert W. Neal, Mr. Edwin
Carty Ranck, Miss Anne B. Schultze, Mrs. Celia Baldwin Whitehead, Mr. Horatio Winslow, Miss Kate Buss,
Mrs. E. B. Dewing, Mr. A. E. Dingle, Mr. Edmund R. Brown, Mr. George Gilbert, Mr. Harry E. Jergens, Mr.
Eric Levison, Mr. Robert McBlair, Mrs. Vivien C. Mackenzie, Mr. W. W. Norman, Rev. Wilbur Fletcher
Steele, Mrs. Elizabeth C. A. Smith, Captain Achmed Abdullah, Mr. H. H. Howland, Mr. Howard W. Cook,
Mr. Newton A. Fuessle, Mr. B. Guilbert Guerney, Mr. William H. Briggs, Mr. Francis Garrison, Mr. Albert J.
Klinck, Mr. Alfred A. Knopf, Miss Mary Lerner, Mr. H. F. Jenkins, Mr. Guy Holt, Mr. H. S. Latham, Mr. H.
L. Pangborn, Miss Maisie Prim, Mr. S. Edgar Briggs, Mr. William Morrow, Mr. Sherwood Anderson, Hon.
W. Andrews, Miss Edwina Stanton Babcock, Mr. Thomas Beer, Mrs. Fleta Campbell Springer, Miss Sarah N.
Cleghorn, Mr. Irvin S. Cobb, Miss Alice Cowdery, Miss Bertha Helen Crabbe, Mr. H. G. Dwight, Miss Edna
Ferber, Mrs. Elizabeth Irons Folsom, Miss Ellen Glasgow, Mrs. George Cram Cook, Mr. Armistead C.
Gordon, Miss Fannie Hurst, Mrs. Vincent Costello, Mrs. E. Clement Jones, Mrs. Gerald Stanley Lee, Mr.
Addison Lewis, Mr. Edison Marshall, Mr. Edgar Lee Masters, Miss Gertrude Nafe, Mr. Meredith Nicholson,
Mr. Harvey J. O'Higgins, Mr. Lawrence Perry, Mrs. Olive Higgins Prouty, Mrs. Mary Brecht Pulver, Mr.
Benjamin Rosenblatt, Mr. Herman Schneider, Professor Grant Showerman, Miss Mary Synon, Mrs. Mary
Heaton O'Brien, Mr. George Weston, and especially to Mr. Francis J. Hannigan, to whom I owe invaluable
cooperation in ways too numerous to mention.

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 published during 1918 which have qualities of distinction, and yet are not printed in
periodicals falling under my regular notice. It is also my intention during 1918 to review all volumes of short
stories published during that year in the United States. All communications and volumes submitted for review
in "The Best Short Stories of 1918" maybe addressed to me at South Yarmouth, Massachusetts. For such
assistance, I shall make due and grateful acknowledgment in next year's annual.

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