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 _Broom_, the Curtis Publishing Company, the Editor
of _Brief Stories_, the Editor of _The Pagan_, the Editor of _The
Dial_, the Editor of _The Pictorial Review_, the Editor of _The
Bookman_ (New York), the Editor of _The Century_, the Editor of
_The Metropolitan_, the Editors of _The Smart Set_, Miss Margaret
C. Anderson, the Editor of _The Cosmopolitan_, Mr. Conrad Aiken,
Mr. Sherwood Anderson, Mr. Konrad Bercovici, Miss Susan M. Boogher,
Mr. Frederick Booth, Miss Edna Bryner, Miss Rose Gollup Cohen, Mr.
Charles J. Finger, Mr. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Mr. David Freedman, Mrs.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould, Mr. Ben Hecht, Mr. Joseph Hergesheimer,
Mr. William C. G. Jitro, Mr. Ring W. Lardner, Mr. James Oppenheim,
Mr. Benjamin Rosenblatt, Mr. Wilbur Daniel Steele, and Mr. Clement
Wood.
Acknowledgments are specially due to _The Boston Evening Transcript_
for permission to reprint the large body of material previously
published in its pages.
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,
editors, publishers, of stories printed during the period between
October, 1922 and September, 1923 inclusive, which have qualities of
distinction and yet are not printed in periodicals falling under my
regular notice. Such communications may be addressed to me at _Forest
Hill, Oxfordshire, England_.