The Best Short Stories of 1915 - And the Yearbook of the American Short Story

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Title: The Best Short Stories of 1915
And the Yearbook of the American Short Story
Author: Various
Editor: Edward J. O'Brien
Release Date: January 7, 2007 [EBook #20303]
Language: English
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THE
BEST SHORT STORIES
OF 1915
AND THE
YEARBOOK OF THE AMERICANSHORT STORY
EDITED BY
EDWARD J. O’BRIEN
BOSTON
SMALL, MAYNARD & COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1915, 1916, by The Boston Transcript.
Copyright, 1915, by Charles Scribner’s Sons, Harper and Brothers, The
Century Company, The Masses Publishing Company, P.F. Collier & Son,
Incorporated, Margaret C. Anderson, Mitchell Kennerley, The Ridgway
Company, Illustrated Sunday Magazine, John T. Frederick, Every Week
Corporation, Boston Daily Advertiser, The Bellman Company, The Outlook
Company, and The Curtis Publishing Company.
Copyright, 1916, by Maxwell Struthers Burt, Donn Byrne, Will Levington
Comfort, William Addison Dwiggins, James Francis Dwyer, Ben Hecht,
Arthur Johnson, Virgil Jordan, Harris Merton Lyon, Walter J. Muilenburg,
Newbold Noyes, Seumas O’Brien, Katharine Metcalf Roof, Benjamin
Rosenblatt, Elsie Singmaster Lewars, Wilbur Daniel Steele, Mary Synon,
and Fannie Hurst.
Copyright, 1916, by Small, Maynard and Company, Incorporated.
Second Printing, June, 1916
Third Printing, October, 1916
Fourth Printing, December, 1916
Fifth Printing, May, 1917THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A.
TO BENJAMIN ROSENBLATT
BY WAY OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Grateful acknowledgment for permission to include the stories in this
volume is made to the following authors, editors, publishers, and copyright
holders:
To Charles Scribner’s Sons and Mr. Maxwell Struthers Burt for
permission to reprint “The Water-Hole,” first published in
Scribner’s Magazine; to Harper and Brothers and Mr. Donn Byrne
for permission to reprint “The Wake,” first published in Harper’s
Magazine; to The Masses Publishing Company and Mr. Will
Levington Comfort for permission to reprint “Chautonville,” first
published in The Masses; to Mr. William Addison Dwiggins for
permission to reprint “La Dernière Mobilisation;” to P.F. Collier &
Son, Incorporated, Galbraith Welch, and Mr. James Francis
Dwyer for permission to reprint “The Citizen,” first published in
Collier’s Weekly; to Mitchell Kennerley and Mrs. Frances Gregg
Wilkinson for permission to reprint “Whose Dog—?” first
published in The Forum; to Miss Margaret C. Anderson and Mr.
Ben Hecht for permission to reprint “Life,” first published in The
Little Review; to the Century Company and Mr. Arthur Johnson
for permission to reprint “Mr. Eberdeen’s House,” first published
i n The Century Magazine; to the Ridgway Company and Mr.
Virgil Jordan for permission to include “Vengeance is Mine!” first
published in Everybody’s Magazine; to The Illustrated Sunday
Magazine and Mr. Harris Merton Lyon for permission to reprint
“The Weaver Who Clad the Summer,” first published in The
Illustrated Sunday Magazine; to Mr. John T. Frederick and Mr.
Walter J. Muilenburg for permission to reprint “Heart of Youth,”first published in The Midland; to the Every Week Corporation
and Mr. Newbold Noyes for permission to reprint “The End of the
Path,” first published in Every Week and The Associated Sunday
Magazine; to The Illustrated Sunday Magazine and Mr. Seumas
O’Brien for permission to reprint “The Whale and the Grass-
Hopper,” first published in The Illustrated Sunday Magazine; to
The Boston Daily Advertiser, The Boston Evening Record, and
the Newspaper Enterprise Association for permission to reprint
“In Berlin,” by Mary Boyle O’Reilly, first published in The Boston
Daily Advertiser; to the Century Company and Miss Katharine
Metcalf Roof for permission to reprint “The Waiting Years,” first
published in The Century Magazine; to The Bellman Company
and Mr. Benjamin Rosenblatt for permission to reprint “Zelig,” first
published in The Bellman; to The Outlook Company and Mrs.
Elsie Singmaster Lewars for permission to include “The
Survivors,” first published in The Outlook; to Harper and Brothers
and Mr. Wilbur Daniel Steele for permission to reprint “The
Yellow Cat,” first published in Harper’s Magazine; to Charles
Scribner’s Sons and Miss Mary Synon for permission to reprint
“The Bounty Jumper,” first published in Scribner’s Magazine; and
to The Curtis Publishing Company and Miss Fannie Hurst for
permission to reprint “T.B.,” first published in The Saturday
Evening Post.
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 to specially 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, Professor
Albert Frederick Wilson, Mr. Barry Benefield, Mr. Douglas Z. Doty, Mr. Karl
Edwin Harriman, Mr. Edward Frank Allen, Mr. Carl Hovey, Miss Sonya
Levien, Mr. William Griffith, Mr. Arthur T. Vance, Mr. Mitchell Kennerley, Mr.
H.M. Greene, Mr. Robert Bridges, Mr. J.B. Carrington, Mr. Hayden Carruth,
Mr. Frederic A. Duneka, Mr. Henry J. Forman, Mr. Gilman Hall, Mr. Charles
Hanson Towne, Miss Margaret Anderson, Mr. Charles Edison, Mr. Guido
Bruno, Mr. William Marion Reedy, Mr. John T. Frederick, Mr. Burton Kline,
Miss Dorothea Lawrance Mann, Miss Katharine Butler, Mr. Thomas H.
Uzzell, Mr. Virgil Jordan, Mrs. Elsie Singmaster Lewars, Mr. Alfred A.
Knopf, Miss Hilda Baker, Mr. William Stanley Braithwaite, and Mr. Francis
J. Hannigan, in charge of the Periodical Department of the Boston Public
Library. To Mr. Hannigan my special gratitude is due. My ability to find
certain back numbers of periodicals which the publishers were unable to
supply is due to his personal helpfulness and unsparing pains. In fact, his
assistance at certain times almost amounted to collaboration.
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 1916 which have qualities of distinction, and yet
are not printed in periodicals falling under my regular notice. 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 isquite unintentional, and I trust that I shall be absolved for my good
intentions.
E.J.O.
CONTENTS
Introduction. By the Editor
The Water-Hole. By Maxwell Struthers Burt
(From Scribner’s Magazine)
The Wake. By Donn Byrne
(From Harper’s Magazine)
Chautonville. By Will Levington Comfort
(From The Masses)
La Dernière Mobilisation. By W.A. Dwiggins
(From The Fabulist)
The Citizen. By James Francis Dwyer
(From Collier’s Weekly)
Whose Dog—? By Frances Gregg
(From The Forum)
Life. By Ben Hecht
(From The Little Review)
T.B. By Fannie Hurst
(From The Saturday Evening Post)
Mr. Eberdeen’s House. By Arthur Johnson
(From The Century)
Vengeance is Mine. By Virgil Jordan
(From Everybody’s Magazine)
The Weaver Who Clad the Summer. By Harris Merton Lyon
(From The Illustrated Sunday Magazine)
Heart of Youth. By Walter J. Muilenburg
(From The Midland)
The End of the Path. By Newbold Noyes(From Every Week)
The Whale and the Grasshopper. By Seumas O’Brien
(From The Illustrated Sunday Magazine)
In Berlin. By Mary Boyle O’Reilly
(From The Boston Daily Advertiser)
The Waiting Years. By Katharine Metcalf Roof
(From The Century Magazine)
Zelig. By Benjamin Rosenblatt
(From The Bellman)
The Survivors. By Elsie Singmaster
(From The Outlook)
The Yellow Cat. By Wilbur Daniel Steele
(From Harper’s Magazine)
The Bounty-Jumper. By Mary Synon
(From Scribner’s Magazine)
The Yearbook of the American Short Story for 1914 and 1915
The Roll of Honor for 1914
The Roll of Honor for 1915
Magazine Averages for 1915
Index of Short Stories for 1914 and 1915
INTRODUCTION
In reaffirming the significant position of the American short story as
compared with the English short story, I am more impressed than ever with
the leadership maintained by American artists in this literary form. Mr.
James Stephens has