BY WAY OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND
REQUEST
Grateful acknowledgment for permission to include the stories and other
material in this volume is made to the following authors and editors:
To the Editors of _The Boston Evening Transcript_, _The
Reviewer_, _The Century Magazine_, _The Pictorial Review_,
_Harper’s Magazine_, _The Atlantic Monthly_, _Liberty_,
_Collier’s Weekly_, and _The Dial_; and to Messrs.
Harcourt, Brace, and Company, Messrs. Boni and Liveright,
Inc., Miss Sandra Alexander, Mr. Sherwood Anderson, Mr.
Nathan Asch, Mr. Barry Benefield, Mr. Konrad Bercovici,
Miss Bella Cohen, Mr. Charles Caldwell Dobie, Mr. Rudolph
Fisher, Mrs. Katharine Fullerton Gerould, Mr. Walter
Gilkyson, Mr. Manuel Komroff, Mr. Ring W. Lardner, Mr.
Robert Robinson, Miss Evelyn Scott, Miss May Stanley, Mr.
Wilbur Daniel Steele, Mr. Milton Waldman, Mr. Glenway
Wescott, Miss Barrett Willoughby, and Mrs. Elinor Wylie.
I wish to make particular acknowledgments for editorial assistance
to Mrs. W. J. Turner, Miss Katharine Macdonald, and Mr. Francis J.
Hannigan.
In dedicating the present volume to my wife, I wish to record her
invaluable coöperation in making this volume, as well as “The Best
British Short Stories of 1925,” less faulty than it otherwise might
have been during my prolonged illness last summer.
I shall be grateful to my readers for corrections, and particularly for
suggestions leading to the wider usefulness of these annual volumes.
In particular, I shall welcome the receipt from authors, editors and
publishers, of stories printed during the period between October, 1924,
and September, 1925, inclusive, which have qualities of distinction
and yet are not printed in periodicals falling under my regular
attention.
Communications may be addressed to me _Care of Small, Maynard &
Company, 41 Mount Vernon Street, Boston, Mass._