The Best Short Stories of 1917, and the Yearbook of the American Short Story

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.