BY WAY OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT

Grateful acknowledgment for permission to include the stories in this volume is made to the following authors, editors, publishers, and copyright holders:

To Charles Scribner’s Sons and Mr. Maxwell Struthers Burt for permission to reprint “The Water-Hole,” first published in Scribner’s Magazine; to Harper and Brothers and Mr. Donn Byrne for permission to reprint “The Wake,” first published in Harper’s Magazine; to The Masses Publishing Company and Mr. Will Levington Comfort for permission to reprint “Chautonville,” first published in The Masses; to Mr. William Addison Dwiggins for permission to reprint “La Dernière Mobilisation;” to P.F. Collier & Son, Incorporated, Galbraith Welch, and Mr. James Francis Dwyer for permission to reprint “The Citizen,” first published in Collier’s Weekly; to Mitchell Kennerley and Mrs. Frances Gregg Wilkinson for permission to reprint “Whose Dog—?” first published in The Forum; to Miss Margaret C. Anderson and Mr. Ben Hecht for permission to reprint “Life,” first published in The Little Review; to the Century Company and Mr. Arthur Johnson for permission to reprint “Mr. Eberdeen’s House,” first published in The Century Magazine; to the Ridgway Company and Mr. Virgil Jordan for permission to include “Vengeance is Mine!” first published in Everybody’s Magazine; to The Illustrated Sunday Magazine and Mr. Harris Merton Lyon for permission to reprint “The Weaver Who Clad the Summer,” first published in The Illustrated Sunday Magazine; to Mr. John T. Frederick and Mr. Walter J. Muilenburg for permission to reprint “Heart of Youth,” first published in The Midland; to the Every Week Corporation and Mr. Newbold Noyes for permission to reprint “The End of the Path,” first published in Every Week and The Associated Sunday Magazine; to The Illustrated Sunday Magazine and Mr. Seumas O’Brien for permission to reprint “The Whale and the Grass-Hopper,” first published in The Illustrated Sunday Magazine; to The Boston Daily Advertiser, The Boston Evening Record, and the Newspaper Enterprise Association for permission to reprint “In Berlin,” by Mary Boyle O’Reilly, first published in The Boston Daily Advertiser; to the Century Company and Miss Katharine Metcalf Roof for permission to reprint “The Waiting Years,” first published in The Century Magazine; to The Bellman Company and Mr. Benjamin Rosenblatt for permission to reprint “Zelig,” first published in The Bellman; to The Outlook Company and Mrs. Elsie Singmaster Lewars for permission to include “The Survivors,” first published in The Outlook; to Harper and Brothers and Mr. Wilbur Daniel Steele for permission to reprint “The Yellow Cat,” first published in Harper’s Magazine; to Charles Scribner’s Sons and Miss Mary Synon for permission to reprint “The Bounty Jumper,” first published in Scribner’s Magazine; and to The Curtis Publishing Company and Miss Fannie Hurst for permission to reprint “T.B.,” first published in The Saturday Evening Post.

Acknowledgments are specially due to The Boston Evening Transcript for permission to reprint the large body of material previously published in the columns of that paper.

I wish to specially express my gratitude to the following who have materially assisted by their efforts in making this yearbook of American fiction possible and more complete:

Mr. A.A. Boyden, Mr. Bruce Barton, Mr. Henry A. Bellows, Professor Albert Frederick Wilson, Mr. Barry Benefield, Mr. Douglas Z. Doty, Mr. Karl Edwin Harriman, Mr. Edward Frank Allen, Mr. Carl Hovey, Miss Sonya Levien, Mr. William Griffith, Mr. Arthur T. Vance, Mr. Mitchell Kennerley, Mr. H.M. Greene, Mr. Robert Bridges, Mr. J.B. Carrington, Mr. Hayden Carruth, Mr. Frederic A. Duneka, Mr. Henry J. Forman, Mr. Gilman Hall, Mr. Charles Hanson Towne, Miss Margaret Anderson, Mr. Charles Edison, Mr. Guido Bruno, Mr. William Marion Reedy, Mr. John T. Frederick, Mr. Burton Kline, Miss Dorothea Lawrance Mann, Miss Katharine Butler, Mr. Thomas H. Uzzell, Mr. Virgil Jordan, Mrs. Elsie Singmaster Lewars, Mr. Alfred A. Knopf, Miss Hilda Baker, Mr. William Stanley Braithwaite, and Mr. Francis J. Hannigan, in charge of the Periodical Department of the Boston Public Library. To Mr. Hannigan my special gratitude is due. My ability to find certain back numbers of periodicals which the publishers were unable to supply is due to his personal helpfulness and unsparing pains. In fact, his assistance at certain times almost amounted to collaboration.

I shall be grateful to my readers for corrections and particularly for suggestions leading to the wider usefulness of this annual volume. In particular, I shall welcome the receipt from authors and publishers, of stories published during 1916 which have qualities of distinction, and yet are not printed in periodicals falling under my regular notice. For such assistance I shall make due and grateful acknowledgment in next year’s annual.

If I have been guilty of any omissions in these acknowledgments, it is quite unintentional, and I trust that I shall be absolved for my good intentions.