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_)