THE BEST SHORT STORIES OF 1920

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 GREAT MODERN ENGLISH STORIES," ETC.

BOSTON
SMALL, MAYNARD & COMPANY
PUBLISHERS

Copyright 1919, by Charles Scribner's Sons, The Pictorial ReviewCompany, The Curtis Publishing Company, and Harper & Brothers.

Copyright, 1920, by The Boston Transcript Company.

Copyright, 1920, by Margaret C, Anderson, Harper & Brothers, The DialPublishing Company, Inc., The Metropolitan Magazine Company, John T.Frederick, P. F. Collier & Son, Inc., Charles Scribner's Sons, TheInternational Magazine Company, and The Pictorial Review Company.

Copyright, 1921, by Sherwood Anderson, Edwina Stanton Babcock, KonradBercovici, Edna Clare Bryner, Charles Wadsworth Camp, Helen Coale Crew,Katharine Fullerton Gerould, Lee Foster Hartman, Rupert Hughes, GraceSartwell Mason, James Oppenheim, Arthur Somers Roche, Rose Sidney, FletaCampbell Springer, Wilbur Daniel Steele, Ethel Dodd Thomas, John T.Wheelwright, Stephen French Whitman, Ben Ames Williams, and FrancesGilchrist Wood.

Copyright, 1921, by Small, Maynard & Company, Inc.

TO SHERWOOD ANDERSON

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 Miss Margaret C. Anderson, the Editor of Harper's Magazine, theEditor of The Dial, the Editor of The Metropolitan, Mr. John T.Frederick, the Editor of Scribner's Magazine, the Editor of Collier'sWeekly, the Editor of The Cosmopolitan Magazine, the Editor of ThePictorial Review, the Curtis Publishing Company, Mr. SherwoodAnderson, Miss Edwina Stanton Babcock, Mr. Konrad Bercovici, Miss EdnaClare Bryner, Mr. Wadsworth Camp, Mrs. Helen Coale Crew, Mrs. KatharineFullerton 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 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, 1920and September, 1921 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, Oxfordshire,England.

E. J. O.

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