The Best Short Stories of 1919

The Best Short Stories of 1919,
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Title: The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the
American Short Story
Author: Various
Editor: Edward J. O'Brien
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THE BEST SHORT STORIES OF 1919 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" "THE BEST SHORT STORIES OF
1917" "THE BEST SHORT STORIES OF 1918," ETC.
BOSTON SMALL, MAYNARD & COMPANY PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1918, by Margaret C, Anderson, Charles Scribner's Sons,
Smart Set Company, Inc., and The Century Company.
Copyright, 1919, by The Boston Transcript Company.
Copyright, 1919, by The Century Company, Harper & Brothers, The
Bellman Company, The Pictorial Review Company, The Ridgway
Company, The Curtis Publishing Company, The American Hebrew,
and The McCall Company.
Copyright, 1920, by Gulielma Fell Alsop, Sherwood Anderson, Edwina
Stanton Babcock, Djuna Barnes, Frederick Orin Bartlett, Agnes Mary
Brownell, Maxwell Struthers Burt, James Branch Cabell, Horace Fish,
Susan Glaspell Cook, Henry Goodman, Richard Matthews Hallet,
Joseph Hergesheimer, Will E. Ingersoll, Calvin Johnston, Howard
Mumford Jones, Ellen N. La Motte, Elias Lieberman, Mary Heaton
O'Brien, and Anzia Yezierska.
Copyright, 1920, by Small, Maynard & Company, Inc.

* * * * *
TO ANZIA YEZIERSKA
* * * * *

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,
and publishers:
To the Century Company, Miss Margaret C. Anderson, Editor of The
Little Review, Harper & Brothers, The Bellman Company, The
Pictorial Review Company, Charles Scribner's Sons, The Ridgway
Company, The Curtis Publishing Company, The Smart Set Company,
Inc., The Editor of The American Hebrew, The McCall Company, Miss
G. F. Alsop, Mr. Sherwood Anderson, Miss Edwina Stanton Babcock,
Miss Djuna Barnes, Mr. Frederick Orin Bartlett, Miss Agnes Mary
Brownell, Mr. Maxwell Struthers Burt, Mr. James Branch Cabell, Mr.
Horace Fish, Mrs. George Cram Cook, Mr. Henry Goodman, Mr.
Richard Matthews Hallet, Mr. Joseph Hergesheimer, Mr. Will E.
Ingersoll, Mr. Calvin Johnston, Mr. Howard Mumford Jones, Miss
Ellen N. La Motte, Mr. Elias Lieberman, Mrs. Mary Heaton O'Brien,
and Miss Anzia Yezierska.
Acknowledgments are specially due to The Boston Evening Transcript
for permission to reprint the large body of material previously
published in its pages.
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 1920 which have qualities of
distinction, and yet are not printed in periodicals falling under my
regular notice. Such communications may be addressed to me at Bass
River, Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
E. J. O.

CONTENTS[1]
[Note 1: The order in which the stories in this volume are printed is not

intended as an indication of their comparative excellence; the
arrangement is alphabetical by authors.]
PAGE INTRODUCTION. By the Editor xiii
THE KITCHEN GODS. By G. F. Alsop 3 (From The Century)
AN AWAKENING. By Sherwood Anderson 24 (From The Little
Review)
WILLUM'S VANILLA. By Edwina Stanton Babcock 34 (From
Harper's Magazine)
A NIGHT AMONG THE HORSES. By Djuna Barnes 65 (From The
Little Review)
LONG, LONG AGO. By Frederick Orin Bartlett 74 (From The
Bellman)
DISHES. By Agnes Mary Brownell 82 (From The Pictorial Review)
THE BLOOD-RED ONE. By Maxwell Struthers Burt 96 (From
Scribner's Magazine)
THE WEDDING-JEST. By James Branch Cabell 108 (From The
Century)
THE WRISTS ON THE DOOR. By Horace Fish 123 (From
Everybody's Magazine)
"GOVERNMENT GOAT." By Susan Glaspell 147 (From The Pictorial
Review)
THE STONE. By Henry Goodman 167 (From The Pictorial Review)
TO THE BITTER END. By Richard Matthews Hallet 178 (From The
Saturday Evening Post)
THE MEEKER RITUAL. By Joseph Hergesheimer 200 (From The

Century)
THE CENTENARIAN. By Will E. Ingersoll 225 (From Harper's
Magazine)
MESSENGERS. By Calvin Johnston 237 (From The Saturday Evening
Post)
MRS. DRAINGER'S VEIL. By Howard Mumford Jones 269 (From
The Smart Set)
UNDER A WINE-GLASS. By Ellen N. La Motte 297 (From The
Century)
A THING OF BEAUTY. By Elias Lieberman 305 (From The
American Hebrew)
THE OTHER ROOM. By Mary Heaton Vorse 312 (From McCall's
Magazine)
"THE FAT