FOOTNOTES:

[1] The order in which the stories in this volume are printed is not intended as an indication of their comparative excellence; the arrangement is alphabetical by authors.

[2] Copyright, 1917, by The Pictorial Review Company. Copyright, 1918, by Edwina Stanton Babcock.

[3] Copyright, 1917, by The Century Company. Copyright, 1918, by Thomas Beer.

[4] Copyright, 1917, by Charles Scribner's Sons. Copyright, 1918, by Maxwell Struthers Burt.

[5] Copyright, 1917, by The Pictorial Review Company. Copyright, 1918, by Francis Buzzell.

[6] Copyright, 1917, by The Curtis Publishing Company. Copyright, 1918, by Irvin S. Cobb.

[7] Copyright, 1917, by Harper and Brothers. Copyright, 1918, by Charles Caldwell Dobie.

[8] Copyright, 1917, by The Century Company. Copyright, 1918, by H. G. Dwight.

[9] Copyright, 1917, by The Metropolitan Magazine Company. Copyright, 1918, by Edna Ferber.

[10] Copyright, 1917, by The Atlantic Monthly Company. Copyright, 1918, by Katharine Fullerton Gerould.

[11] Copyright, 1917, by The Crowell Publishing Company. Copyright, 1918, by Susan Glaspell Cook.

[12] Copyright, 1917, by The Century Company. Copyright, 1918, by Frederick Stuart Greene.

[13] Copyright, 1917, by The Pictorial Review Company. Copyright, 1918, by Richard Matthews Hallet.

[14] Copyright, 1917, by The International Magazine Company. Copyright 1918, by Fannie Hurst.

[15] Copyright, 1917, by The Pagan Publishing Company. Copyright, 1918, by Fanny Kemble Johnson.

[16] Copyright, 1917, by The Stratford Journal. Copyright, 1918, by Burton Kline.

[17] Copyright 1917, by The Boston Transcript Co. Copyright, 1918, by Vincent O' Sullivan.

[18] Copyright, 1917, by Charles Scribner's Sons. Copyright, 1918, by Lawrence Perry.

[19] Copyright 1917, by The Curtis Publishing Company. Copyright 1918, by Mary Brecht Pulver.

[20] Copyright, 1917, by The Pictorial Review Company. Copyright, 1918, by Wilbur Daniel Steele.

[21] Copyright 1917, by Harper and Brothers. Copyright 1918, by Mary Synon.