, the Editor of _The Metropolitan_, Mr. John T.
Frederick, the Editor of _Scribner's Magazine_, the Editor of _Collier's
Weekly_, the Editor of _The Cosmopolitan Magazine_, the Editor of _The
Pictorial Review_, the _Curtis Publishing Company_, Mr. Sherwood
Anderson, Miss Edwina Stanton Babcock, Mr. Konrad Bercovici, Miss Edna
Clare Bryner, Mr. Wadsworth Camp, Mrs. Helen Coale Crew, Mrs. Katharine
Fullerton Gerould, Mr. Lee Foster Hartman, Major Rupert Hughes, Mrs.
Grace Sartwell Mason, Mr. James Oppenheim, Mr. Arthur Somers Roche, Mrs.
Rose Sidney, Mrs. Fleta Campbell Springer, Mr. Wilbur Daniel Steele,
Mrs. A. E. Thomas, Mr. John T. Wheelwright, Mr. Stephen French Whitman,
Mr. Ben Ames Williams, and Mrs. Frances Gilchrist Wood.

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, 1920
and September, 1921 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 xiii

#The Other Woman.# By Sherwood Anderson 3
(From _The Little Review_)

#Gargoyle.# By Edwina Stanton Babcock 12
(From _Harper's Magazine_)

#Ghitza.# By Konrad Bercovici 36
(From _The Dial_)

#The Life of Five Points.# By Edna Clare Bryner 49
(From _The Dial_)

#The Signal Tower.# By Wadsworth Camp 66
(From _The Metropolitan_)

#The Parting Genius.# By Helen Coale Crew 83
(From _The Midland_)

#Habakkuk.# By Katharine Fullerton Gerould 90
(From _Scribner's Magazine_)

#The Judgment of Vulcan.# By Lee Foster Hartman 116
(From _Harper's Magazine_)

#The Stick-in-the-Muds.# By Rupert Hughes 148
(From _Collier's Weekly_)

#His Job.# By Grace Sartwell M