The Best Short Stories of 1917 | Page 2

"Ching, Ching, Chinaman," first published in The Pictorial Review; and
to Harper and Brothers and Miss Mary Synon for permission to reprint
"None So Blind," first published in Harper's Magazine.
Acknowledgments are specially due to The Boston Evening Transcript
and The Bookman for permission to reprint the large body of material
previously published in their pages.
I wish specially to express my gratitude to the following who have
materially assisted by their efforts and advice in making this year-book
of American fiction possible and more nearly complete:
Mrs. Padraic Colum, Mr. A. A. Boyden, Mr. Ellery Sedgwick, Mr.
Henry A. Bellows, Mr. Herman E. Cassino, Mr. G. G. Wyant, Mr.
Burton Kline, Mr. Douglas Z. Doty, Mr. Barry Benefield, Mr. T. R.
Smith, Mr. Frederick Lewis Allen, Mr. Henry J. Forman, Miss Honoré
Willsie, Mr. Harold Hersey, Mr. Bruce Barton, Miss Bernice Brown,
Miss Mariel Brady, Mr. William Frederick Bigelow, Mr. John
Chapman Hilder, Mr. Thomas B. Wells, Mr. Lee Foster Hartman, Mr.
Sewell Haggard, Mr. Samuel W. Hippler, Mr. Joseph Bernard Rethy,
Mr. Karl Edwin Harriman, Mr. Christopher Morley, Miss Margaret
Anderson, Mrs. Hughes Cornell, Miss Myra G. Reed, Mr. Merrill

Rogers, Mr. Charles Hanson Towne, Mr. Carl Hovey, Miss Sonya
Levien, Mr. John T. Frederick, Mr. Ival McPeak, Mr. Robert H. Davis,
Mrs. R. M. Hallowell, Mr. Harold T. Pulsifer, Mr. Wyndham Martyn,
Mr. Frank Harris, Mr. Robert W. Sneddon, Miss Rose L. Ellerbe, Mr.
Arthur T. Vance, Miss Jane Lee, Mr. Joseph Kling, Mr. William
Marion Reedy, Mr. Leo Pasvolsky, Mr. Churchill Williams, Mr. Robert
Bridges, Mr. Waldo Frank, Mr. H. E. Maule, Mr. Henry L. Mencken,
Mr. Robert Thomas Hardy, Miss Anne Rankin, Mr. Henry T.
Schnittkind, Dr. Isaac Goldberg, Mr. Charles K. Field, Mrs. Mary
Fanton Roberts, Miss Sarah Field Splint, Miss Mabel Barker, Mr.
Hayden Carruth, Mrs. Kathleen Norris, Mrs. Ethel Hoe, Miss Mildred
Cram, Miss Dorothea Lawrance Mann, Miss Hilda Baker, Mr. William
Stanley Braithwaite, Mr. Frank Owen, Mr. Alexander Harvey, Mr.
Seumas O'Brien, Madame Gaston Lachaise, Mr. John J. Phillips, Mr.
Sylvester Baxter, Miss Alice Brown, Mr. Francis Buzzell, Mr. Will
Levington Comfort, Mr. Robert A. Parker, Mr. Randolph Edgar, Miss
Augusta B. Fowler, Captain Frederick Stuart Greene, Mr. Emanuel
Haldeman-Julius, Mr. Reginald Wright Kauffman, Mr. J. B. Kerfoot,
Mrs. Elsie S. Lewars, Miss Jeannette Marks, Mr. W. M. Clayton, Mr.
Vincent O'Sullivan, Mr. Henry Wallace Phillips, Mr. Melville Davisson
Post, Mr. John D. Sabine, Mr. Richard Barker Shelton, Mrs. A. M.
Scruggs, Miss May Selley, Mr. Daniel J. Shea, Mr. Vincent Starrett, Mr.
M. M. Stearns, Mrs. Ann Watkins, Dr. Blanche Colton Williams, Mr.
Edward P. Nagel, Mr. G. Humphrey, Rev. J.-F. Raiche, Mr. Wilbur
Daniel Steele, Miss Louise Rand Bascom, Mr. Octavus Roy Cohen, Mr.
Robert Cumberland, Mr. Charles Divine, Mr. Frank C. Dodd, Mr.
William R. Kane, Mr. David Gibson, Miss Ida Warren Gould, Miss
Ella E. Hirsch, Miss Marie Louise Kinsella, Mr. Frank E. Lohn, Mrs.
Margaret Medbury, Miss Anna Mitchell, Mr. Robert W. Neal, Mr.
Edwin Carty Ranck, Miss Anne B. Schultze, Mrs. Celia Baldwin
Whitehead, Mr. Horatio Winslow, Miss Kate Buss, Mrs. E. B. Dewing,
Mr. A. E. Dingle, Mr. Edmund R. Brown, Mr. George Gilbert, Mr.
Harry E. Jergens, Mr. Eric Levison, Mr. Robert McBlair, Mrs. Vivien
C. Mackenzie, Mr. W. W. Norman, Rev. Wilbur Fletcher Steele, Mrs.
Elizabeth C. A. Smith, Captain Achmed Abdullah, Mr. H. H. Howland,
Mr. Howard W. Cook, Mr. Newton A. Fuessle, Mr. B. Guilbert
Guerney, Mr. William H. Briggs, Mr. Francis Garrison, Mr. Albert J.

Klinck, Mr. Alfred A. Knopf, Miss Mary Lerner, Mr. H. F. Jenkins, Mr.
Guy Holt, Mr. H. S. Latham, Mr. H. L. Pangborn, Miss Maisie Prim,
Mr. S. Edgar Briggs, Mr. William Morrow, Mr. Sherwood Anderson,
Hon. W. Andrews, Miss Edwina Stanton Babcock, Mr. Thomas Beer,
Mrs. Fleta Campbell Springer, Miss Sarah N. Cleghorn, Mr. Irvin S.
Cobb, Miss Alice Cowdery, Miss Bertha Helen Crabbe, Mr. H. G.
Dwight, Miss Edna Ferber, Mrs. Elizabeth Irons Folsom, Miss Ellen
Glasgow, Mrs. George Cram Cook, Mr. Armistead C. Gordon, Miss
Fannie Hurst, Mrs. Vincent Costello, Mrs. E. Clement Jones, Mrs.
Gerald Stanley Lee, Mr. Addison Lewis, Mr. Edison Marshall, Mr.
Edgar Lee Masters, Miss Gertrude Nafe, Mr. Meredith Nicholson, Mr.
Harvey J. O'Higgins, Mr. Lawrence Perry, Mrs. Olive Higgins Prouty,
Mrs. Mary Brecht Pulver, Mr. Benjamin Rosenblatt, Mr. Herman
Schneider, Professor Grant Showerman, Miss Mary Synon, Mrs. Mary
Heaton O'Brien, Mr. George Weston, and especially to Mr. Francis J.
Hannigan, to whom I owe invaluable cooperation in ways too
numerous to mention.
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 published during 1918 which have qualities of
distinction, and yet