The Best Short Stories of 1915

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The Best Short Stories of 1915, by Various

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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 AMERICAN SHORT 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, 1917
THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A.
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TO BENJAMIN ROSENBLATT
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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 in 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 year-book 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,