Opening
THE BEST SHORT STORIES OF 1921
AND THE
YEARBOOK OF THE AMERICAN SHORT STORY
Edited by
EDWARD J. O'BRIEN
Editor of "The Best Short Stories of 1915" "The Best Short Stories of 1916" "The Best Short Stories of 1917" "The Best Short Stories of 1918" "The Best Short Stories of 1919" "The Best Short Stories of 1920" "The Great Modern English Stories," Etc
Boston Small, Maynard & Company Publishers
Copyright, 1920, by John T. Frederick, Charles J. Finger, The Dial Publishing Company, Inc., Charles Scribner's Sons, The International Magazine Company, Harper & Brothers, and Smart Set Company, Inc.
Copyright, 1921, by The Boston Transcript Company.
Copyright, 1921, by B.W. Huebsch, The Century Company, John T. Frederick, George H. Doran Company, The Dial Publishing Company, Inc., The Pictorial Review Company, The Curtis Publishing Company, The Crowell Publishing Company, Harper & Brothers, Charles Scribner's Sons, The International Magazine Company, and Smart Set Company, Inc.
Copyright, 1921, by Boni & Liveright, Inc.
Copyright, 1922, by Maxwell Struthers Burt, George H. Doran Co., Lincoln Colcord, Waldo Frank, Katharine Fullerton Gerould, Doubleday, Page & Co., Glasgow, Susan Glaspell Cook, Richard Matthews Hallet, Frances Noyes Hart, Fannie Hurst, Manuel Komroff, Frank Luther Mott, Vincent O'Sullivan, Wilbur Daniel Steele, Harriet Maxon Thayer, Charles Hanson Towne, and Mary Heaton Minor.
Copyright, 1922, by Small, Maynard & Company, Inc.
Printed in the United States of America Press of the Murray Printing Company Kendall Square, Cambridge
TO A.E. COPPARD
BY WAY OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT
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 The Century Magazine, the Editor of The Bookman, the Editor of The Dial, the Editor of The Pictorial Review, the Editor of The Saturday Evening Post, the Editor of The American Magazine, the Editor of Scribner's Magazine, the Editor of Good Housekeeping, the Editor of Harper's Magazine, the Editor of The Cosmopolitan, the Editors of The Smart Set, The Editor of The Midland, Boni & Liveright, Inc., George H. Doran Co., B.W. Huebsch, Doubleday, Page & Co., Sherwood Anderson, Konrad Bercovici, Maxwell Struthers Burt, Irvin S. Cobb, Lincoln Colcord, Charles J. Finger, Waldo Frank, Katharine Fullerton Gerould, Ellen Glasgow, Susan Glaspell, Richard Matthews Hallet, Frances Noyes Hart, Fannie Hurst, Manuel Komroff, Frank Luther Mott, Vincent O'Sullivan, Wilbur Daniel Steele, Harriet Maxon Thayer, Charles Hanson Towne, and Mary Heaton Vorse.
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, and publishers, of stories printed during the period between October, 1921 and September, 1922 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.
E.J.O.
CONTENTS[1]
PAGE
INTRODUCTION. By the Editor. xii
BROTHERS. By Sherwood Anderson. 3 (From The Bookman)
FANUTZA. By Konrad Bercovici. 13 (From The Dial)
EXPERIMENT. By Maxwell Struthers Burt. 28 (From The Pictorial Review)
DARKNESS. By Irvin S. Cobb. 52 (From The Saturday Evening Post)
AN INSTRUMENT OF THE GODS. By Lincoln Colcord. 82 (From The American Magazine)
THE LIZARD GOD. By Charles J. Finger. 109 (From All's Well)
UNDER THE DOME. By Waldo Frank. 130 (From The Dial)
FRENCH EVA. By Katharine Fullerton Gerould. 142 (From Scribner's Magazine)
THE PAST. By Ellen Glasgow. 168 (From Good Housekeeping)
HIS SMILE. By Susan Glaspell. 194 (From The Pictorial Review)
THE HARBOR MASTER. By Richard Matthews Hallet. 207 (From Harper's Magazine)
GREEN GARDENS. By Frances Noyes Hart. 240 (From Scribner's Magazine)
SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY. By Fannie Hurst. 253 (From The Cosmopolitan)
THE LITTLE MASTER OF THE SKY. By Manuel Komroff. 288 (From The Dial)
THE MAN WITH THE GOOD FACE. By Frank Luther Mott. 300 (From The Midland)
MASTER OF FALLEN YEARS. By Vincent O'Sullivan. 321 (From The Smart Set)
THE SHAME DANCE. By Wilbur Daniel Steele. 337 (From Harper's Magazine)
KINDRED. By Harriet Maxon Thayer. 362 (From The Midland)
SHELBY. By Charles Hanson Towne. 386 (From The Smart Set)
THE WALLOW OF THE SEA. By Mary Heaton Vorse. 401 (From Harper's Magazine)
THE YEARBOOK OF THE AMERICAN SHORT STORY, OCTOBER, 1920, TO SEPTEMBER, 1921 419
Addresses of American and English Magazines Publishing Short Stories. 421
The Biographical Roll of Honor of American Short Stories. 424
The Roll of Honor of Foreign Short Stories in American Magazines. 428
The Best Books of Short Stories: A Critical Summary. 430
Volumes of Short Stories Published in the United States: An Index. 437
Volumes of Short Stories Published in England and Ireland Only. 440
Volumes of Short Stories Published in France. 442
Articles on the Short Story: An Index. 443
Index of Short Stories in Books. 457
I. American Authors. 458
II. English and Irish Authors. 461
III. Translations. 463
Magazine Averages. 466
Index of Short Stories Published in American Magazines. 469
I. American Authors. 471
II. English and Irish Authors. 500
III. Translations. 505