TO STACY AUMONIER
BY WAY OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Grateful acknowledgement for permission to include the stories and other material in this volume is made to the following authors, editors, literary agents, and publishers:
To the Editor of The Saturday Evening Post, the Editor of The Dial, the Editor of The Freeman, the Editor of The English Review, the Editor of The Century Magazine, the Editor of Harpers' Bazar, the Editor of The Ladies' Home Journal, the Editor of The Chicago Tribune Syndicate Service, Alfred A. Knopf, The Golden Cockerel Press, B.W. Huebsch, The Talbot Press, Dodd, Mead and Co., Stacy Aumonier, J.D. Beresford, Algernon Blackwood, Harold Brighouse, William Caine, A.E. Coppard, Miss R.C. Lamburn, Walter de la Mare, Miss Dorothy Easton, Miss May Edginton, John Galsworthy, Alan Graham, Holloway Horn, Rowland Kenney, Miss Rosamond Langbridge, Mrs. Mary St. Leger Harrison, Mrs. J. Middleton Murry, Mrs. Elinor Mordaunt, Max Pemberton, Roland Pertwee, Miss May Sinclair, Sidney Southgate, Mrs. Geoffrey Holdsworth, Mrs. Basil Hargrave, and Hugh Walpole; to Curtis Brown, Ltd., as agent for Stacy Aumonier, May Edginton, Elinor Mordaunt, Roland Pertwee, and May Sinclair; to J.B. Pinker as agent for J.D. Beresford, Walter de la Mare, John Galsworthy, G.B. Stern, and Hugh Walpole; to A.P. Watt and Son as agent for Algernon Blackwood and Lucas Malet; to Andrew H. Dakers as agent for A.E. Coppard; to Cotterill and Cromb as agent for Alan Graham; and to Christy and Moore, Ltd., as agent for Holloway Horn.
Acknowledgements are specially due to The Boston Evening Transcript
for permission to reprint the large body of material previously published in its pages. We ask pardon of any one whose rights we may have accidentally overlooked.
We shall be grateful to our readers for corrections, and particularly for suggestions leading to the wider usefulness of this annual volume. We shall particularly welcome the receipt from authors, editors, agents, and publishers, of stories printed during the year beginning July 1, 1922, which have qualities of distinction but yet are not published in periodicals falling under our regular notice. Such communications may be addressed to Edward J. O'Brien, Forest Hill, Oxfordshire.
E.J.O.
J.C.
CONTENTS
[ THE BEST BRITISH SHORT STORIES OF 1922 ]
[ WHERE WAS WYCH STREET? — By STACY AUMONIER ]
[ THE LOOKING GLASS — By J.D. BERESFORD ]
[ THE OLIVE — By ALGERNON BLACKWOOD ]
[ ONCE A HERO — By HAROLD BRIGHOUSE ]
[ THE PENSIONER — By WILLIAM CAINE ]
[ BROADSHEET BALLAD — By A.E. COPPARD ]
[ THE CHRISTMAS PRESENT — By RICHMAL CROMPTON ]
[ SEATON'S AUNT By WALTER DE LA MARE ]
[ THE REAPER — By DOROTHY EASTON ]
[ THE SONG — By MAY EDGINTON ]
[ A HEDONIST — By JOHN GALSWORTHY ]
[ THE BAT AND BELFRY INN — By ALAN GRAHAM ]
[ THE LIE — By HOLLOWAY HORN ]
[ A GIRL IN IT — By ROWLAND KENNEY ]
[ THE BACKSTAIRS OF THE MIND — By ROSAMOND LANGBRIDGE ]
[ THE BIRTH OF A MASTERPIECE — By LUCAS MALET ]
[ "GENIUS" — By ELINOR MORDAUNT ]
[ THE DEVIL TO PAY — By MAX PEMBERTON ]
[ EMPTY ARMS — By ROLAND PERTWEE ]
[ LENA WRACE — By MAY SINCLAIR ]
[ THE DICE THROWER — By SIDNEY SOUTHGATE ]
[ THE STRANGER WOMAN — By G.B. STERN ]
[ THE WOMAN WHO SAT STILL — By PARRY TRUSCOTT ]
[ MAJOR WILBRAHAM — By HUGH WALPOLE ]
[ THE YEARBOOK OF THE BRITISH ]
[ ADDRESSES OF PERIODICALS PUBLISHING SHORT STORIES ]
[ ARTICLES ON THE SHORT STORY ]