The Best Short Stories of 1921

The Best Short Stories of 1921

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Title: The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the
American Short Story
Author: Various
Editor: Edward J. O'Brien
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THE BEST SHORT STORIES OF 1921
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" "The Best Short Stories of 1919" "The Best Short Stories of
1920" "The Great Modern English Stories," Etc

Boston Small, Maynard & Company Publishers
Copyright, 1920, by John T. Frederick, Charles J. Finger, The Dial
Publishing Company, Inc., Charles Scribner's Sons, The International
Magazine Company, Harper & Brothers, and Smart Set Company, Inc.
Copyright, 1921, by The Boston Transcript Company.
Copyright, 1921, by B.W. Huebsch, The Century Company, John T.
Frederick, George H. Doran Company, The Dial Publishing Company,
Inc., The Pictorial Review Company, The Curtis Publishing Company,
The Crowell Publishing Company, Harper & Brothers, Charles
Scribner's Sons, The International Magazine Company, and Smart Set
Company, Inc.
Copyright, 1921, by Boni & Liveright, Inc.
Copyright, 1922, by Maxwell Struthers Burt, George H. Doran Co.,
Lincoln Colcord, Waldo Frank, Katharine Fullerton Gerould,
Doubleday, Page & Co., Glasgow, Susan Glaspell Cook, Richard
Matthews Hallet, Frances Noyes Hart, Fannie Hurst, Manuel Komroff,

Frank Luther Mott, Vincent O'Sullivan, Wilbur Daniel Steele, Harriet
Maxon Thayer, Charles Hanson Towne, and Mary Heaton Minor.
Copyright, 1922, by Small, Maynard & Company, Inc.
Printed in the United States of America Press of the Murray Printing
Company Kendall Square, Cambridge

TO A.E. COPPARD

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 Editor of The Century Magazine, the Editor of The Bookman,
the Editor of The Dial, the Editor of The Pictorial Review, the Editor of
The Saturday Evening Post, the Editor of The American Magazine, the
Editor of Scribner's Magazine, the Editor of Good Housekeeping, the
Editor of Harper's Magazine, the Editor of The Cosmopolitan, the
Editors of The Smart Set, The Editor of The Midland, Boni & Liveright,
Inc., George H. Doran Co., B.W. Huebsch, Doubleday, Page & Co.,
Sherwood Anderson, Konrad Bercovici, Maxwell Struthers Burt, Irvin
S. Cobb, Lincoln Colcord, Charles J. Finger, Waldo Frank, Katharine
Fullerton Gerould, Ellen Glasgow, Susan Glaspell, Richard Matthews
Hallet, Frances Noyes Hart, Fannie Hurst, Manuel Komroff, Frank
Luther Mott, Vincent O'Sullivan, Wilbur Daniel Steele, Harriet Maxon
Thayer, Charles Hanson Towne, and Mary Heaton Vorse.
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 printed during the period between October, 1921
and September, 1922 inclusive, 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 Forest Hill, Oxfordshire,
England.
E.J.O.

CONTENTS[1]
PAGE
INTRODUCTION. By the Editor. xii
BROTHERS. By Sherwood Anderson. 3 (From The Bookman)
FANUTZA. By Konrad Bercovici. 13 (From The Dial)
EXPERIMENT. By Maxwell Struthers Burt. 28 (From The Pictorial
Review)
DARKNESS. By Irvin S. Cobb. 52 (From The Saturday Evening Post)
AN INSTRUMENT OF THE GODS. By Lincoln Colcord. 82 (From
The American Magazine)
THE LIZARD GOD. By Charles J. Finger. 109 (From All's Well)
UNDER THE DOME. By Waldo Frank. 130 (From The Dial)
FRENCH EVA. By Katharine Fullerton Gerould. 142 (From Scribner's
Magazine)
THE PAST. By Ellen Glasgow. 168 (From Good Housekeeping)
HIS SMILE. By Susan Glaspell. 194 (From The Pictorial Review)

THE HARBOR MASTER. By Richard Matthews Hallet. 207 (From
Harper's Magazine)
GREEN GARDENS. By Frances Noyes Hart. 240 (From Scribner's
Magazine)
SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY. By Fannie Hurst. 253 (From The
Cosmopolitan)
THE LITTLE MASTER OF THE SKY. By Manuel Komroff. 288
(From The Dial)
THE MAN WITH THE