Chapter I: Introduction

WHERE WAS WYCH STREET? By Stacy Aumonier (From _The Strand Magazine_ and _The Saturday Evening Post_)

THE LOOKING-GLASS. By J.D. Beresford (From _The Cornhill Magazine_)

THE OLIVE. By Algernon Blackwood (From _Pearson's Magazine, London_)

ONCE A HERO. By Harold Brighouse (From _Pan_)

"THE PENSIONER." By William Caine (From _The Graphic_)

BROADSHEET BALLAD. By A.E. Coppard (From _The Dial_)

THE CHRISTMAS PRESENT. By Richmal Crompton (From _Truth_)

SEATON'S AUNT. By Walter de la Mare (From _The London Mercury_)

THE REAPER. By Dorothy Easton (From _The English Review_)

THE SONG. By May Edginton (From _Lloyd's Story Magazine_)

A HEDONIST. By John Galsworthy (From _Pears' Annual_, 1921 and _The Century Magazine_)

THE BAT AND BELFRY INN. By Alan Graham (From _The Story-Teller_)

THE LIE. By Holloway Horn (From _The Blue Magazine_)

A GIRL IN IT. By Rowland Kenney (From _The New Age_)

THE BACKSTAIRS OF THE MIND. By Rosamond Langbridge (From _The Manchester Guardian_)

THE BIRTH OF A MASTERPIECE. By Lucas Malet (From _The Story-Teller_)

"GENIUS." By Elinor Mordaunt (From _Hutchinson's Magazine_ and _The Century Magazine_)

THE DEVIL TO PAY. By Max Pemberton (From _The Story-Teller_)

EMPTY ARMS. By Roland Pertwee (From _The Ladies' Home Journal_)

LENA WRACE. By May Sinclair (From _The Dial_)

THE DICE THROWER. By Sidney Southgate (From _Colour_)

THE STRANGER WOMAN. By G.B. Stern (From _John o'London's Weekly_)

THE WOMAN WHO SAT STILL. By Parry Truscott (From _Colour_)

MAJOR WILBRAHAM. By Hugh Walpole (From _The Chicago Tribune_)

THE YEARBOOK OF THE BRITISH AND IRISH SHORT STORY, JULY, 1921, TO JUNE, 1922

Abbreviations

Addresses of Periodicals Publishing Short Stories

The Roll of Honour

A List of Other Distinctive Stories

Articles on the Short Story in British Periodicals

Volumes of Short Stories Published in Great Britain and Ireland