The Best Short Stories of 1915

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.
* * * * *
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