The Best Short Stories of 1917

The Best Short Stories of 1917,
by Various

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Title: The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the
American Short Story
Author: Various
Editor: Edward J. O'Brien
Release Date: March 22, 2007 [EBook #20872]
Language: English
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THE BEST SHORT STORIES OF 1917

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," ETC.
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BOSTON SMALL, MAYNARD & COMPANY PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1918, by The Boston Transcript Company
Copyright, 1917, by The Pictorial Review Company, The Century
Company, Charles Scribner's Sons, The Curtis Publishing Company,
Harper & Brothers, The Metropolitan Magazine Company, The
Atlantic Monthly Company, The Crowell Publishing Company, The
International Magazine Company, The Pagan Publishing Company,
The Stratford Journal, and The Boston Transcript Company
Copyright, 1918, by Edwina Stanton Babcock, Thomas Beer, Maxwell
Struthers Burt, Francis Buzzell, Irvin S. Cobb, Charles Caldwell Dobie,
H. G. Dwight, Edna Ferber, Katharine Fullerton Gerould, Susan
Glaspell Cook, Frederick Stuart Greene, Richard Matthews Hallet,
Fannie Hurst, Fanny Kemble Costello, Burton Kline, Vincent
O'Sullivan, Lawrence Perry, Mary Brecht Pulver, Wilbur Daniel Steele,
and Mary Synon
Copyright, 1918, by Edward J. O'Brien
Copyright, 1918, by Small, Maynard & Company, Inc.
Fourth printing, January, 1919 Fifth printing, September, 1919 Sixth
printing, August, 1920 Seventh printing, August, 1921
TO

WILBUR DANIEL STEELE
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,
publishers, and copyright holders:
To The Pictorial Review Company and Miss Edwina Stanton Babcock
for permission to reprint "The Excursion," first published in The
Pictorial Review; to The Century Company and Mr. Thomas Beer for
permission to reprint "Onnie," first published in The Century Magazine;
to Charles Scribner's Sons and Mr. Maxwell Struthers Burt for
permission to reprint "A Cup of Tea," first published in Scribner's
Magazine; to The Pictorial Review Company and Mr. Francis Buzzell
for permission to reprint "Lonely Places," first published in The
Pictorial Review; to The Curtis Publishing Company and Mr. Irvin S.
Cobb for permission to reprint "Boys Will Be Boys," first published in
The Saturday Evening Post; to Harper and Brothers and Mr. Charles
Caldwell Dobie for permission to reprint "Laughter," first published in
Harper's Magazine; to The Century Company and Mr. H. G. Dwight
for permission to reprint "The Emperor of Elam," first published in The
Century Magazine; to The Metropolitan Magazine Company and Miss
Edna Ferber for permission to reprint "The Gay Old Dog," first
published in The Metropolitan Magazine; to The Atlantic Monthly
Company and Mrs. Katharine Fullerton Gerould for permission to
reprint "The Knight's Move," first published in The Atlantic Monthly;
to The Crowell Publishing Company, the editor of Every Week, and
Mrs. George Cram Cook for permission to reprint "A Jury of Her
Peers," by Susan Glaspell, first published in Every Week and The
Associated Sunday Magazines; to The Century Company and Captain
Frederick Stuart Greene for permission to reprint "The Bunker Mouse,"
first published in The Century Magazine; to Mr. Paul R. Reynolds for
confirmation of Captain Greene's permission; to The Pictorial Review
Company and Mr. Richard Matthews Hallet for permission to reprint
"Rainbow Pete," first published in The Pictorial Review; to The
International Magazine Company, the editor of The Cosmopolitan

Magazine, and Miss Fannie Hurst for permission to reprint "Get Ready
the Wreaths," first published in The Cosmopolitan Magazine; to the
editor of The Pagan and Mrs. Vincent Costello for permission to
reprint "The Strange-Looking Man," by Fanny Kemble Johnson, first
published in The Pagan; to The Stratford Journal, the editor of The
Stratford Journal, and Mr. Burton Kline for permission to reprint "The
Caller in the Night," first published in The Stratford Journal; to The
Boston Transcript Company and Mr. Vincent O'Sullivan for permission
to reprint "The Interval," first published in The Boston Evening
Transcript; to Charles Scribner's Sons and Mr. Lawrence Perry for
permission to reprint "'A Certain Rich Man--,'" first published in
Scribner's Magazine; to The Curtis Publishing Company and Mrs.
Mary Brecht Pulver for permission to reprint "The Path of Glory," first
published in The Saturday Evening Post; to The Pictorial Review
Company and Mr. Wilbur Daniel Steele for permission to reprint