" 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 "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 Honore 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 R