Chapter 36

There never was so long an evening. The squall blew over and a heavy blow set in. I could hear the pounding of the waves on the outside shore. Deolda sat outside the circle of the lamp in a horrible tense quiet. My aunt tried to make talk, and made a failure of it. It was awful to hear the clatter of her voice trying to sound natural in the face of the whistle of the storm, and out wallowing in it the gasoline dory with its freight of hatred. I hated to go to bed, for my room gave on the sea, and it seemed as if the night and the tragedy which I had glimpsed would come peering in at me with ghastly eyes.

I had just got under the blanket when the door opened quietly.

"Who is that?" I asked.

"It's me--Deolda."

She went to the window and peered out into the storm, as though she were trying to penetrate its mystery. I couldn't bear her standing there; it was as if I could hear her heart bleed. It was as if for a while I had become fused with her and her love for Johnny Deutra and with all the dark things that had happened in our house this afternoon. I got out of bed and went to her and put my hand in hers. If she'd only cried, or if she'd only spoken I could have stood it; if she'd said in words what was going on inside her mind. But she sat there with her hand cold in mine, staring into the storm through all the long hours of the night.

Toward the end I was so tired that my mind went to sleep in that way your mind can when your body stays awake and everything seems far off and like things happening in a nightmare except that you know they're real. At last daylight broke, very pale, threatening, and slate colored. Deolda got up and began padding up and down the floor, back and forth, like a soul in torment.

About ten o'clock old Conboy came in.

"I got the license, Deolda," he said.

"All right," said Deolda, "all right--go away." And she kept on padding up and down the room like a leopard in a cage.

Conboy beckoned my aunt out into the entry. I followed.

"What ails her?" he asked.

"I guess she thinks she sent Johnny Deutra to his grave," said my aunt.

Conboy peered in the door at Deolda. Her face looked like a yellow mask of death with her black hair hanging around her.

"God!" he said, in a whisper. "_She cares!_" I don't believe it had dawned on him before that she was anything but a wild devil.

All that day the _Anita_ wasn't heard from. That night I was tired out and went to bed. But I couldn't sleep; Deolda sat staring out into the dark as she had the night before.

Next morning I was standing outside the house when one of Deolda's brothers came tearing along. It was Joe, the youngest of one-armed Manel's brood, a boy of sixteen who worked in the fish factory.

"Deolda!" he yelled. "Deolda, Johnny's all right!"

She caught him by the wrist. "Tell me what's happened!"

"The other feller--he's lost."

"_Lost?_" said Deolda, her breath drawn in sharply. "Lost--how?"

"Washed overboard," said Joe. "See--looka here. When Johnny got ashore this is what he says." He read aloud from the newspaper he had brought, a word at a time, like a grammar-school kid:

"With a lame propeller and driven out of her course, the _Anita_ made Plymouth this morning without her Captain, Mark Hammar. John Deutra, who brought her in, made the following statement:

"'I was lying in my bunk unable to sleep, for we were being combed by waves again and again. Suddenly I noticed we were wallowing in the trough of the sea, and went on deck to see what was wrong. I groped my way to the wheel. It swung empty. Captain Hammar was gone, washed overboard in the storm. How I made port myself I don't know--'"

Here his reading was interrupted by an awful noise--Deolda laughing, Deolda laughing and sobbing, her hands above her head, a wild thing, terrible.

"Go on," my aunt told the boy. "Go home!" And she and Deolda went into the house, her laughter filling it with awful sound.

After a time she quieted down. She stood staring out of the window, hands clenched.

"Well?" she said, defiantly. "Well?" She looked at us, and what was in her eyes made chills go down me. Triumph was what was in her eyes. Then suddenly she flung her arms around my aunt and kissed her. "Oh," she cried, "kiss me, Auntie, kiss me! He's not dead, my Johnny--not dead!"

"Go up to your room, Deolda," said my aunt, "and rest." She patted her shoulder just as though she were a little girl, for all the thoughts that were crawling around our hearts.

When later in the day Conboy came, "Where's Deolda?" he asked.

"I'll call her," I said. But Deolda wasn't anywhere; not a sign of her. She'd vanished. Conboy and Aunt Josephine looked at each other.

"She's gone to him," said Conboy.

My aunt leaned toward him and whispered, "_What do you think?_"

"Hush!" said Conboy, sternly. "_Don't think_, Josephine! _Don't speak. Don't even dream!_ Don't let your mind stray. You know that crew couldn't have made port in fair weather together. The strongest man won--that's all!"

"Then you believe--" my aunt began.

"Hush!" he said, and put his hand over her mouth. Then he laughed suddenly and slapped his thigh. "God!" he said. "Deolda--Can you beat her? She's got luck--by gorry, she's got luck! You got a pen and ink?"

"What for?" said my aunt.

"I want to write out a weddin' present for Deolda," he said. "Wouldn't do to have her without a penny."

So he wrote out a check for her. And then in two months old Conboy died and left every other cent to Deolda. You might have imagined him sardonic and grinning over it, looking across at Deolda's luck from the other side of the grave.

But what had happened wasn't luck. I knew that she had sent her Johnny out informed with her own terrible courage. A weaker woman could have kept him back. A weaker woman would have had remorse. But Deolda had the courage to hold what she had taken, and maybe this courage of hers is the very heart of romance.

I looked at her, stately, monumental, and I wondered if she ever thinks of that night when the wallow of the sea claimed Mark Hammar instead of Johnny Deutra. But there's one thing I'm sure of, and that is, if she does think of it the old look of triumph comes over her face.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 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.]

[Footnote 2: Copyright, 1921, by George H. Doran Company. Copyright, 1921, by B.W. Huebsch. From "The Triumph of the Egg and other Stories."]

[Footnote 3: Copyright, 1921, by The Dial Publishing Company, Inc. Copyright, 1921, by Boni and Liveright, Inc. From "Ghitza, and Other Tales of Gypsy Blood."]

[Footnote 4: Copyright, 1921, by The Pictorial Review Company. Copyright, 1921, by Charles Scribner's Sons. From "Chance Encounters."]

[Footnote 5: Copyright, 1921, by The Curtis Publishing Company. Copyright, 1921, by Irvin S. Cobb. From a forthcoming volume to be published by George H. Doran Co.]

[Footnote 6: Copyright, 1921, by The Crowell Publishing Company. Copyright, 1922, by Lincoln Colcord.]

[Footnote 7: Copyright, 1920, by Charles J. Finger.]

[Footnote 8: Copyright, 1920, by The Dial Publishing Company, Inc. Copyright, 1922, by Waldo Frank.]

[Footnote 9: Copyright, 1920, by Charles Scribner's Sons. Copyright, 1922, by Katharine Fullerton Gerould.]

[Footnote 10: Copyright, 1920, by the International Magazine Co. Copyright, 1922, by Doubleday, Page & Co.]

[Footnote 11: Copyright, 1921, by The Pictorial Review Company, Inc. Copyright, 1922, by Susan Glaspell Cook.]

[Footnote 12: Copyright, 1921, by Harper & Brothers. Copyright, 1922, by Richard Matthews Hallet.]

[Footnote 13: Copyright, 1921, by Charles Scribner's Sons. Copyright, 1922, by Prances Noyes Hart.]

[Footnote 14: Copyright, 1921, by The International Magazine Company. Copyright, 1922, by Fannie Hurst.]

[Footnote 15: Copyright, 1921, by The Dial Publishing Company, Inc. Copyright, 1922, by Manuel Komroff.]

[Footnote 16: Copyright, 1920, by John T. Frederick. Copyright, 1922, by Frank Luther Mott.]

[Footnote 17: Copyright, 1921, by Smart Set Company, Inc. Copyright, 1922, by Vincent O'Sullivan.]

[Footnote 18: Copyright, 1920, by Harper & Brothers. Copyright, 1922, by Wilbur Daniel Steele.]

[Footnote 19: Copyright, 1921, by John T. Frederick. Copyright, 1922, by Harriet Maxon Thayer.]

[Footnote 20: Copyright, 1920, by Smart Set Company, Inc. Copyright, 1922, by Charles Hanson Towne.]

[Footnote 21: Copyright, 1921, by Harper & Brothers. Copyright, 1922, by Mary Heaton Minor.]

THE YEARBOOK OF THE AMERICAN SHORT STORY, OCTOBER, 1920, TO SEPTEMBER, 1921

ADDRESSES OF MAGAZINES PUBLISHING SHORT STORIES

I. AMERICAN MAGAZINES

NOTE. _This address list does not aim to be complete, but is based simply on the magazines which I have consulted for this volume._

Adventure, Spring and Macdougal Streets, New York City. Ainslee's Magazine, 79 Seventh Avenue, New York City. All's Well, Gayeta Lodge, Fayetteville, Arkansas. American Boy, 142 Lafayette Boulevard, Detroit, Michigan. American Magazine, 381 Fourth Avenue, New York City. Argosy All-Story Weekly, 280 Broadway, New York City. Asia, 627 Lexington Avenue, New York City. Atlantic Monthly, 8 Arlington Street, Boston, Mass. Bookman, 244 Madison Avenue, New York City. Brief Stories, 714 Drexel Building, Philadelphia, Pa. Broom, 3 East 9th Street, New York City. Catholic World, 120 West 60th Street, New York City. Century, 353 Fourth Avenue, New York City. Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois. Christian Herald, Bible House, New York City. Collier's Weekly, 416 West 13th Street, New York City. Cosmopolitan Magazine, 119 West 40th Street, New York City. Delineator, Spring and Macdougal Streets, New York City. Dial, 152 West 13th Street, New York City. Everybody's Magazine, Spring and Macdougal Streets, New York City. Follies, 25 West 45th Street, New York City. Good Housekeeping, 119 West 40th Street, New York City. Harper's Bazar, 119 West 40th Street, New York City. Harper's Magazine, Franklin Square, New York City. Hearst's International Magazine, 119 West 40th Street, New York City. Holland's Magazine, Dallas, Texas. Ladies' Home Journal, Independence Square, Philadelphia, Pa. Liberator, 34 Union Square East, New York City. Little Review, 24 West 16th Street, New York City. Live Stories, 35 West 39th Street, New York City. McCall's Magazine, 236 West 37th Street, New York City. McClure's Magazine, 76 Fifth Avenue, New York City. Magnificat, Manchester, N.H. Metropolitan, 432 Fourth Avenue, New York City. Midland, Box 110, Iowa City, Iowa. Munsey's Magazine, 280 Broadway, New York City. Open Road, 248 Boylston Street, Boston, Mass. Outlook, 381 Fourth Avenue, New York City. Pagan, 23 West 8th Street, New York City. People's Favorite Magazine, 79 Seventh Avenue, New York City. Pictorial Review, 216 West 39th Street, New York City. Popular Magazine, 79 Seventh Avenue, New York City. Queen's Work, 626 North Vandeventer Avenue, St. Louis, Mo. Red Book Magazine, North American Building, Chicago, Ill. Saturday Evening Post, Independence Square, Philadelphia, Pa. Scribner's Magazine, 597 Fifth Avenue, New York City. Short Stories, Garden City, Long Island, N.Y. Smart Set, 25 West 45th Street, New York City. Snappy Stories, 35 West 39th Street, New York City. Sunset, 460 Fourth Street, San Francisco, Cal. Telling Tales, 799 Broadway, New York City. To-day's Housewife, Cooperstown, N.Y. Top-Notch Magazine, 79 Seventh Avenue, New York City. Wayside Tales, 6 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Ill. Western Story Magazine, 79 Seventh Avenue, New York City. Woman's Home Companion, 381 Fourth Avenue, New York City. Woman's World, 107 South Clinton Street, Chicago, Ill.

II. ENGLISH MAGAZINES

Apple of Discord, 53, Victoria Street, London, S.W.1. Blackwood's Magazine, 37, Paternoster Row, London, E.C.4. Blue Magazine, 115, Fleet Street, London, E.C.4. Bystander, Graphic Buildings, Whitefriars, London, E.C.4. Cassell's Magazine, La Belle Sauvage, Ludgate Hill, London, E.C.4. Chamber's Journal, 38, Soho Square, London, W.C.1. Colour Magazine, 53, Victoria Street, London, S.W.1. Cornhill Magazine, 50A Albemarle Street, London, W.1. Country Life, 20, Tavistock Street, Strand, London, W.C.2. English Review, 18, Bedford Square, London, W.C.1. Eve, Great New Street. London, E.C.4. Fanfare, 31, Percy Street, London, W.1. Form, Morland Press, Ltd., 190, Ebury Street, London, S.W.1. Grand Magazine, 8-11, Southampton Street, Strand, London, W.C.2. Graphic, Graphic Buildings, Whitefriars, London, E.C.4. Home Magazine, 8-11 Southampton Street, Strand, London, W.C.2. Hutchinson's Magazine, 34 Paternoster Row, London, E.C.4. John O'London's Weekly, 8-11 Southampton Street, London, W.C.2. Lady, 39 Bedford Street, Strand, London, W.C.2. Lady's World, 6, Essex Street, Strand, London, W.C.2. Lloyd's Story Magazine, 12, Salisbury Square, London, E.C.4. London, Fleetway House, Farringdon Street, London, E.C.4. London Mercury, Windsor House, Bream's Buildings, London, E.C.4. Looking Forward, Windsor House, Bream's Buildings, London, E.C.4. Manchester Guardian, 3, Cross Street, Manchester. Nash's and Pall Mall Magazine, 1, Amen Corner, Paternoster Row, London. E.C.4. Nation and Athenæum, 10, Adelphi Terrace, London, W.C.2. New Age, 38, Cursitor Street, Chancery Lane, London, E.C.4. New Magazine, La Belle Sauvage, Ludgate Hill, London, E.C.4. New Statesman, 10, Great Queen Street, Kingsway, London, W.C.2. Novel Magazine, Henrietta Street, London, W.C.2. Outward Bound, Edinburgh House, 2, Eaton Gate, London, S.W.1. Pan, Long Acre, London, W.C.2. Pearson's Magazine, 17-18 Henrietta Street, London, W.C.2. Premier, The Fleetway House, Farringdon Street, London, E.C.4. Queen, Bream's Buildings, London, E.C.4. Quest, 21, Cecil Court, Charing Cross Road, London, W.C.2. Quiver, La Belle Sauvage, Ludgate Hill, London, E.C.4. Red Magazine, The Fleetway House, Farringdon Street, London, E.C.4. Royal Magazine, 17-18 Henrietta Street, London, W.C.2. Saturday Westminster Gazette, Tudor House, Tudor Street, London, E.C.4. Sketch, 172, Strand, London, W.C.2. Sovereign Magazine, 34, Paternoster Row, London, E.C.4. Sphere, Great New Street, London, E.C.4. Story-Teller, La Belle Sauvage, Ludgate Hill, London, E.C.4. Strand Magazine, 8-11, Southampton Street, Strand, London, W.C.2. Times Literary Supplement, Printing House Square, London, E.C.4. Truth, Bolt Court, Fleet Street, London, E.C.4. Vanity Fair, 1, Amen Corner, Paternoster Row, London, E.C.4. Vineyard, Care of Allen & Unwin, Ltd., Ruskin House, 40, Museum Street, London, W.C.1. Voices, Care of Chapman & Hall, Ltd., 11, Henrietta Street, London, W.C.2. Wide World Magazine, 8-11, Southampton Street, Strand, London, W.C.2. Windsor Magazine, Warwick House, Salisbury Square, London, E.C.4. Yellow Magazine, The Fleetway House, Farringdon Street, London, E.C.4.

THE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ROLL OF HONOR OF AMERICAN SHORT STORIES

OCTOBER, 1920, TO SEPTEMBER, 1921

NOTE. _Only stories by American authors are listed. The best stories are indicated by an asterisk before the title of the story. The index figures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 prefixed to the name of the author indicate that his work has been included in the Rolls of Honor for 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, and 1920 respectively. The list excludes reprints. "Oscar" by Djuna Barnes should be added to the Roll of Honor in "The Best Short Stories of 1920."_

(567) ABDULLAH, ACHMED (_for biography, see 1918_).

Dutiful Grief. Lute of Jade.

ALLEN, JAMES LANE. Born in Lexington, Kentucky, 1849. Educated at Transylvania University. Taught in the secondary schools and at Kentucky University and Bethany College. Author of "Flute and Violin," 1891; "Blue Grass Region," 1892; "John Gray," 1893; "Kentucky Cardinal," 1895; "Aftermath," 1896; "Summer in Arcady," 1896; "Choir Invisible," 1897; "Reign of Law"; "Mettle of the Pasture;" "Bride of the Mistletoe," 1909; "Doctor's Christmas Eve," 1910; "Heroine in Bronze," 1912; "Last Christmas Tree," 1914; "Sword of Youth," 1915; "Cathedral Singer," 1916; "Kentucky Warbler," 1918. Lives in New York City.

*Ash-Can.

(34567) ANDERSON, SHERWOOD (_for biography, see 1917_).

*Brothers. *New Englander. *Unlighted Lamps.

(7) BERCOVICI, KONRAD (_for biography, see 1920_).

*Fanutza.

(14567) BURT, MAXWELL STRUTHERS (_for biography, see 1917_).

Buchanan Hears the Wind. *Experiment.

(567) CABELL, JAMES BRANCH (_for biography, see 1918_).

*Image of Sesphra.

(23) CHILD, RICHARD WASHBURN. Born at Worcester, Massachusetts, August 5, 1881. Graduate of Harvard University and Harvard Law School. Admitted to the Bar in 1906. Appointed United States Ambassador to Italy, 1921. Author of "Jim Hands," 1910; "Man In The Shadow," 1911; "Blue Wall" 1912; "Potential Russia," 1916; "Bodbank," 1916; "Velvet Black," 1921. Lives in Rome, Italy.

Screen.

(2345) COBB, IRVIN S. (_for biography, see 1917_).

*Darkness. Short Natural History.

(2) COLCORD, LINCOLN. Born at sea, off Cape Horn, August 14, 1883. Educated at Searsport, Maine, High School and University of Maine. Spent first fourteen years of his life at sea on the China coast. Civil Engineer 1906-9. Author of "The Drifting Diamond," 1912; "Game of Life and Death," 1914; "Vision of War," 1915. Washington correspondent of Philadelphia Ledger, 1917 to 1919. Lives at Searsport, Maine.

*Instrument of the Gods.

(456) CRABBE, BERTHA HELEN (_for biography, see 1917_).

On Riverside Drive.

(7) FINGER, CHARLES J. (_for biography, see 1920_).

Derailment of Train No. 16. *Lizard God.

(4) FRANK, WALDO (_for biography, see 1917_).

*Under the Dome.

(123457) GEROULD, KATHARINE FULLERTON (_for biography, see 1917_).

*French Eva.

(4) GLASGOW, ELLEN (_for biography, see 1917_).

*Past.

(456) GLASPELL, SUSAN (MRS. GEORGE CRAM COOK) (_for biography, see 1917_).

*His Smile.

(346) HALLET, RICHARD MATTHEWS (_for biography, see 1917_).

*Harbor Master.

HART, FRANCES NOYES. Born at Silver Spring, Maryland, August 10, 1890. Educated at Chicago Latin School, privately in Connecticut and abroad, and at the Sorbonne in the Collège de France. Interested in anything from baseball to Bach. First short story, "Contact," published in the Pictorial Review, December, 1920, and awarded second prize by O. Henry Memorial Committee Society of Arts and Sciences. Published "Mark" 1913, and "My A.E.F.," 1920, under name of Frances Newbold Noyes. Lives in New York City.

*Green Gardens.

(256) HECHT, BEN (_for biography, see 1918_).

Bomb-Thrower.

(23456) HURST, FANNIE (_for biography, see 1917_).

*She Walks in Beauty.

(6) IMRIE, WALTER MCLAREN (_for biography, see 1919_).

Remembrance.

(7) KOMROFF, MANUEL. Born in New York City. Educated in New York public schools, and special courses at Yale University. Journalist. First short story published in Reedy's Mirror two years ago. Lives in New York City.

*Little Master of the Sky.

MOTT, FRANK LUTHER.

*Man With the Good Face.

(457) O'HIGGINS, HARVEY J. (_for biography, see 1917_).

*Peter Quayle.

(3457) O'SULLIVAN, VINCENT (_for biography, see 1917_).

*Master of Fallen Years.

(4) PORTOR, LAURA SPENCER.

Sightseers.

(1237) POST, MELVILLE DAVISSON (_for biography, see 1920_).

Unknown Disciple.

(5) Rhodes, Harrison (Garfield) (_for biography, see 1918_).

Miss Sunshine.

ROBBINS, TOD. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., June 25, 1888. Educated at Polytechnic Preparatory School, Mercersburg Academy, and Washington and Lee University. Well-known amateur athlete. First short story "Married," published in The Parisienne, February, 1917. Author of "The Unholy Three," 1917; "Red of Surley," 1919; "Silent, White and Beautiful," 1920. Lives in New York City.

Toys of Fate.

SCOBEE, BARRY. Born at Pollock, Missouri, May 2, 1885. Educated at Missouri State Normal School. Journalist and printer. Chief interests metaphysics and mountains. Was in regular army 1907-10, including Philippine campaign. First story "The Whip In the Thatch," Young's Magazine, March. 1915. Lives in Bellingham, Washington.

*The Wind.

(3457) SPRINGER, FLETA CAMPBELL (_for biography, see 1917_).

*Role of Madame Ravelles.

(234567) STEELE, WILBUR DANIEL (_for biography, see 1917_).

*At-Two-in-the-Bush. *Footfalls. *Life. *Shame Dance. 'Toinette of Maisonnoir.

THAYER, HARRIET MAXON (MRS. GILBERT THAYER). Born at Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, 1889. Attended University of Wisconsin and School of Journalism, Columbia University. Fairy tales in Philadelphia North American and in the Guide, Milwaukee, 1921. Married Gilbert Thayer, September 5, 1921. Served in France with American Red Cross Canteen, 1918 and 1919.

*Kindred.

TOWNE, CHARLES HANSON. Born in Louisville, Kentucky, February 2, 1877. Educated in New York public schools and College of the City of New York. Author of "Quiet Singer"; "Manhattan"; "Youth"; "Beyond the Stars"; "To-day and To-morrow"; "The Tumble Man"; and "Autumn Loiterers." Has been editor of The Designer, Smart Set, and McClure's Magazine. Lives in New York City.

*Shelby.

(56) VENABLE, EDWARD C. Born at Petersburg, Virginia, July 4, 1884. Graduate of Princeton University, 1906. Served in France in Field Ambulance Service and Flying Corps, 1917-19. Author of "Pierre Vinton," 1914; "Short Stories," 1915; "Wife of the Junior Partner," 1915; "Lasca," 1916; "Ali Babette," 1917; and "At Isham's," 1918. Lives in Baltimore, Maryland.

*Madame Tichepin.

(34567) VORSE, MARY HEATON (_for biography, see 1917_).

*Wallow of the Sea.

(567) WILLIAMS, BEN AMES (_for biography, see 1918_).

*Man Who Looked Like Edison.

(6) WORMSER, G. RANGER. Born in New York City, February 24, 1893. Educated privately. First short story "Tragedy's Fool," published in English edition of the Smart Set, 1910. Author of "The Scarecrow," 1918. Lives in New York City.

Gossamer. Second-Hand.

(67) YEZIERSKA, ANZIA (_for biography, see 1919_).

My Own People.

THE ROLL OF HONOR OF FOREIGN SHORT STORIES IN AMERICAN MAGAZINES

OCTOBER, 1920, TO SEPTEMBER, 1921

NOTE. _Stories of special excellence are indicated, by an asterisk. The index figures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 prefixed to the name of the author indicate that his work has been included in the Rolls of Honor for 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, and 1920 respectively. The list excludes reprints._

I. ENGLISH AND IRISH AUTHORS

(1234567) AUMONIER, STACY.

Beautiful Merciless One. *Little White Frock.

(7) BECK, L. ADAMS.

*How Great is the Glory of Kwannon! *Interpreter.

(6) BEERBOHM, MAX.

*T. Fenning Dodworth. *William and Mary.

(34) BERESFORD, J.D.

*Expiation.

(123567) BLACKWOOD, ALGERNON.

Confession.

COPPARD, A.E.

*Hurly-Burly. *Tiger.

(123456) GALSWORTHY, JOHN.

*Awakening. *Timber. *Hedonist.

(2) GIBBON, PERCEVAL.

Statistics.

HUDSON, STEPHEN.

Southern Women.

HUXLEY, ALDOUS.

*Tillotson Banquet.

MCFEE, WILLIAM.

Knights and Turcopoliers.

ROBERTS, CECIL.

Silver Pool.

(7) SINCLAIR, MAY.

*Lena Wrace. *Return.

(57) STEPHENS, JAMES.

*In the Beechwood.

(27) WALPOLE, HUGH.

*Bombastes Furioso. *Critic. *Strange Case of Mr. Nix. *Lucy Moon. *Lizzie Rand. *Nobody! *Peter Westcott's Nursery.

II. TRANSLATIONS

(35) "GORKI, MAXIM." (_Russian._)

*Rivals.

MANN, THOMAS. (_German._)

*Loulou.

REMIZOV, ALEKSEI. (_Russian._)

*White Heart.

(7) SCHNITZLER, ARTHUR. (_German._)

*Greek Dancer.

SWEDEN, PRINCE CARL WILHELM LUDWIG OF. (_Swedish._)

Pearls.

THE BEST BOOKS OF SHORT STORIES OF 1921: A CRITICAL SUMMARY

THE BEST AMERICAN BOOKS