omissions in these acknowledgments, it is
quite unintentional, and I trust that I shall be absolved for my good
intentions.

E.J.O.

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION. By the Editor

THE WATER-HOLE. By Maxwell Struthers Burt
(From _Scribner's Magazine_)

THE WAKE. By Donn Byrne
(From _Harper's Magazine_)

CHAUTONVILLE. By Will Levington Comfort
(From _The Masses_)

LA DERNIERE MOBILISATION. By W.A. Dwiggins
(From _The Fabulist_)

THE CITIZEN. By James Francis Dwyer
(From _Collier's Weekly_)

WHOSE DOG--? By Frances Gregg
(From _The Forum_)

LIFE. By Ben Hecht
(From _The Little Review_)

T.B. By Fannie Hurst
(From _The Saturday Evening Post_)

MR. EBERDEEN'S HOUSE. By Arthur Johnson
(From _The Century_)

VENGEANCE IS MINE. By Virgil Jordan
(From _Everybody's Magazine_)

THE WEAVER WHO CLAD THE SUMMER. By Harris Merton Lyon
(From _The Illustrated Sunday Magazine_)

HEART OF YOUTH. By Walter J. Muilenburg
(From _The Midland_)

THE END OF THE PATH. By Newbold Noyes
(From _Every Week_)

THE WHALE AND THE GRASSHOPPER. By Seumas O'Brien
(From _The Illustrated Sunday Magazine_)

IN BERLIN. By Mary Boyle O'Reilly
(From _The Boston Daily Advertiser_)

THE WAITING YEARS. By Katharine Metcalf Roof
(From _The Century Magazine_)

ZELIG. By Benjamin Rosenblatt
(From _The Bellman_)

THE SURVIVORS. By Elsie Singmaster
(From _The Outlook_)

THE YELLOW CAT. By Wilbur Daniel Steele
(From _Harper's Magazine_)

THE BOUNTY-JUMPER. By Mary Synon
(From _Scribner's Magazine_)

THE YEARBOOK OF THE AMERICAN SHORT STORY FOR 1914 AND 1915

THE ROLL OF HONOR FOR 1914

THE ROLL OF HONOR FOR 1915

MAGAZINE AVERAGES FOR 1915

INDEX OF SHORT STORIES FOR 1914 AND 1915

INTRODUCTION

In reaffirming the significant position of the American short story as
compared with the English short story, I am more impressed than ever
with the leadership maintained by American artists in this literary
form. Mr. James Stephens has been criticising us for our curiously
negative achievement in novel writing. He has compared the American
novelist with the English novelist and found him wanting. He is
compelled to deny literary distinction to the American novel, and he
makes a sweeping indictment of American fiction in consequence. But
does he know the American short story?

If you turn to the English magazines, you will find a certain form of
_conte_ of narrow