YEARBOOK OF THE AMERICAN
SHORT STORY
EDITED BY
EDWARD J. O’BRIEN
[Illustration: colophon]
BOSTON
SMALL, MAYNARD & COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1917, by The Boston Transcript Co.
Copyright, 1916, by Charles Scribner’s Sons, Harper and Brothers, The
Century Company, P. F. Collier & Son, Inc., Mitchell Kennerley, Every
Week Corporation, The Bellman Company, The Curtis Publishing Company,
George H. Doran Company, The Seven Arts Publishing Company, Inc., The
Boston Transcript Co., R. M. McBride & Company, The Pictorial Review
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Copyright, 1917, by Gertrude Atherton, Barry Benefield, Frederick Booth,
Dana Burnet, Francis Buzzell, Theodore Dreiser, Armistead C. Gordon,
Frederick Stuart Greene, Richard Matthews Hallet, Fannie Hurst, Mary
Lerner, Jeannette Marks, Walter J. Muilenburg, Albert Du Verney Pentz,
Benjamin Rosenblatt, Elsie Singmaster Lewars, Gordon Arthur Smith, and
Wilbur Daniel Steele.
Copyright, 1917, by Edward J. O’Brien.
Copyright, 1917, by Small, Maynard and Company, Inc.
TO
RICHARD MATTHEWS HALLET