Grateful acknowledgment for permission to include the stories and other
material in this volume is made to the following authors, editors,
publishers, and copyright holders:
To Harper and Brothers and Mrs. Gertrude Atherton for permission to
reprint “The Sacrificial Altar,” first published in _Harper’s
Magazine_; to The Century Company and Mr. Barry Benefield for
permission to reprint “Miss Willett,” first published in _The
Century Magazine_; to The Seven Arts Publishing Company, Inc., and
Mr. Frederick Booth for permission to reprint “Supers,” first
published in _The Seven Arts Magazine_; to R. M. McBride & Company
and Mr. Dana Burnet for permission to reprint “Fog,” first
published in _McBride’s Magazine_; to The Pictorial Review Company
and Mr. Francis Buzzell for permission to reprint “Ma’s Pretties,”
first published in _The Pictorial Review_; to The Curtis Publishing
Company, The George H. Doran Company, and Mr. Irvin S. Cobb for
permission to reprint “The Great Auk,” first published in _The
Saturday Evening Post_, and included in “Local Color and Other
Stories,” by Irvin S. Cobb, published by The George H. Doran
Company, New York, 1916; to The Century Company and Mr. Theodore
Dreiser for permission to reprint “The Lost Phoebe,” first
published in _The Century Magazine_; to Charles Scribner’s Sons and
Mr. Armistead C. Gordon for permission to reprint “The Silent
Infare,” first published in _Scribner’s Magazine_; to The
Metropolitan Magazine Company and Mr. Frederick Stuart Greene for
permission to reprint “The Cat of the Cane-Brake,” first published
in _The Metropolitan Magazine_; to The Every Week Corporation and
Mr. Richard Matthews Hallet for permission to reprint “Making
Port,” first published in _Every Week_ and _The Associated Sunday
Magazines_; to P. F. Collier & Son, Inc., and Miss Fannie Hurst for
permission to reprint “‘Ice Water, Pl--!’” first published in
_Collier’s Weekly_; to The Atlantic Monthly Company and Miss Mary
Lerner for permission to reprint “Little Selves,” first published
in _The Atlantic Monthly_; to The Pictorial Review Company and Miss
Jeannette Marks for permission to reprint “The Sun Chaser,” first
published in _The Pictorial Review_; to Mr. Mitchell Kennerley, Mr.
Walter J. Muilenburg, and The Forum Publishing Company for
permission to reprint “At the End of the Road,” first published in
_The Forum_; to The Boston Transcript and Mr. Albert Du Verney
Pentz for permission to reprint “The Big Stranger of Dorchester
Heights,” first published in _The Boston Evening Transcript_; to
The Bellman Company and Mr. Benjamin Rosenblatt for permission to
reprint “The Menorah,” first published in _The Bellman_; to The
Pictorial Review Company and Mrs. Elsie Singmaster Lewars for
permission to reprint “Penance,” first published in _The Pictorial
Review_; to Charles Scribner’s Sons and Mr. Gordon Arthur Smith for
permission to reprint “Feet of Gold,” first published in
_Scribner’s Magazine_; to Harper and Brothers and Mr. Wilbur Daniel
Steele for permission to reprint “Down on Their Knees,” first
published in _Harper’s Magazine_, and to The Shortstory Publishing
Company and Miss Alice L. Tildesley for permission to reprint
“Half-Past Ten,” first published in _The Black Cat_.
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 specially to 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, Mr. Barry
Benefield, Mr. Frederick Lewis Allen, Mr. Karl Edwin Harriman, Mr.
Edward Frank Allen, Mr. Robert M. McBride, Mr. George H. Doran, Mr. Carl
Hovey, Miss Sonya Levien, Mr. William Griffith, Mr. Arthur T. Vance, Mr.
Mitchell Kennerley, Mr. Bernard Dailey, Miss Sarah Field Splint, Mr.
Hiram M. Greene, Mr. Robert Bridges, Mr. Hayden Carruth, Mr. Thomas B.
Wells, Mr. Henry J. Forman, Mr. Mark Sullivan, Mr. Charles Hanson
Towne, Miss Margaret Anderson, Mr. William Marion Reedy, Mr. John T.
Frederick, Mr. Ival McPeak, Mr. Burton Kline, Miss Dorothea Lawrance
Mann, Mr. Thomas H. Uzzell, Miss Hilda Baker, Mr. William Stanley
Braithwaite, Mr. Leo Pasvolsky, Mr. Frank Owen, Mr. Lewis Allen Browne,
Mr. Alexander Harvey, Miss Louise Collier Wilcox, Mr. Don C. D. Moore,
Mrs. Anne Shannon Monroe, Mr. T. D. Pendleton Cummins, Miss Margaret
Prescott Montague, Mr. Frederick Stuart Greene, Mr. Llewellyn Jones, Mr.
Edward Lyell Fox, Mr. H. M. Guilbert, Mrs. Mary Woodson Shippey, Mr.
Harry V. Lawrence, Miss Catherine Lecky, Miss Josephine Conger-Kaneko,
Colonel T. D. Landon, Miss Anne Rankin, Mr. Seumas O’Brien, Mrs. Edward
Pearce Nagel, Dr. W. H. Starratt, Mr. John J. Phillips, Mr. W. A.
Dwiggins, Mr. Lawrance B. Siegfried, Mr. Francis Buzzell, Mr. Lucian
Cary, Mr. M. M. Stearns, Mr. Reginald Wright Kauffman, Mr. Horatio
Winslow, Mrs. John R. Fisher, Miss Helen Christine Bennett, Mr. Herman
E. Cassino, Mr. Sewell Haggard, Mr. Ellery Sedgwick, Mr. William Rose
Benét, Mr. Edmond McKenna, Mr. Dana Burnet, Miss Agnes C. Laut, Mr.
William Frederick Bigelow, Mr. Samuel W. Hippler, Mr. Joseph Bernard
Rethy, Mr. Robert W. Sneddon, Miss Myra G. Reed, Mr. Robert H. Davis,
Mr. Harold T. Pulsifer, Mr. Ray Long, Mr. Waldo Frank, Mr. H. E. Maule,
Mr. Henry L. Mencken, Mr. Henry T. Schnittkind, Mr. Charles K. Field,
Mr. Martyn Johnson, Mr. Padraic Colum, and Mr. Francis J. Hannigan.
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 1917 which have qualities of distinction, and
yet are not printed in periodicals falling under my regular notice.
These communications may be addressed to me at South Yarmouth,
Massachusetts. 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.