The Best Short Stories of 1921, and the Yearbook of the American Short Story

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Copyright, 1920, by John T. Frederick, Charles J. Finger, The Dial Publishing Company, Inc., Charles Scribner's Sons, The International Magazine 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 Crowell Publishing Company, Harper & Brothers, Charles Scribner's Sons, The International Magazine Company, and Smart Set Company, Inc.
Copyright, 1921, by Boni & Liveright, Inc.
Copyright, 1922, by Maxwell Struthers Burt, George H. Doran Co., Lincoln Colcord, Waldo Frank, Katharine Fullerton Gerould, Doubleday, Page & Co., Glasgow, Susan Glaspell Cook, Richard Matthews Hallet, Frances Noyes Hart, Fannie Hurst, Manuel Komroff, Frank Luther Mott, Vincent O'Sullivan, Wilbur Daniel Steele, Harriet Maxon Thayer, Charles Hanson Towne, 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
Grateful acknowledgment for permission to include the stories and other material in this volume is made to the following authors, editors and publishers:
To the Editor of The Century Magazine , the Editor of The Bookman , the Editor of The Dial , the Editor of The Pictorial Review , the Editor of The Saturday Evening Post , the Editor of The American Magazine , the Editor of Scribner's Magazine , the Editor of Good Housekeeping , the Editor of Harper's Magazine , the Editor of The Cosmopolitan , the Editors of The Smart Set , The Editor of The Midland , Boni & Liveright, Inc., George H. Doran Co., B.W. Huebsch, Doubleday, Page & Co., Sherwood Anderson, Konrad Bercovici, Maxwell Struthers Burt, Irvin S. Cobb, Lincoln Colcord, Charles J. Finger, Waldo Frank, Katharine Fullerton Gerould, Ellen Glasgow, Susan Glaspell, Richard Matthews Hallet, Frances Noyes Hart, Fannie Hurst, Manuel Komroff, Frank Luther Mott, Vincent O'Sullivan, Wilbur Daniel Steele, Harriet Maxon Thayer, Charles Hanson Towne, and Mary Heaton Vorse.