Chapter II: Introduction: By the Editor xvii

THE EXCURSION. By Edwina Stanton Babcock 1
(From _The Pictorial Review_)

ONNIE. By Thomas Beer 20
(From _The Century Magazine_)

A CUP OF TEA. By Maxwell Struthers Burt 45
(From _Scribner's Magazine_)

LONELY PLACES. By Francis Buzzell 70
(From _The Pictorial Review_)

BOYS WILL BE BOYS. By Irvin S. Cobb 86
(From _The Saturday Evening Post_)

LAUGHTER. By Charles Caldwell Dobie 128
(From _Harper's Magazine_)

THE EMPEROR OF ELAM. By H. G. Dwight 147
(From _The Century Magazine_)

THE GAY OLD DOG. By Edna Ferber 208
(From _The Metropolitan Magazine_)

THE KNIGHT'S MOVE. By Katharine Fullerton Gerould 234
(From _The Atlantic Monthly_)

A JURY OF HER PEERS. By Susan Glaspell 256
(From _Every Week_)

THE BUNKER MOUSE. By Frederick Stuart Greene 283
(From _The Century Magazine_)

RAINBOW PETE. By Richard Matthews Hallet 307
(From _The Pictorial Review_)

GET READY THE WREATHS. By Fannie Hurst 326
(From _The Cosmopolitan Magazine_)

THE STRANGE-LOOKING MAN. By Fanny Kemble
Johnson 361
(From _The Pagan_)

THE CALLER IN THE NIGHT. By Burton Kline 365
(From _The Stratford Journal_)

THE INTERVAL. By Vincent O'Sullivan 383
(From _The Boston Evening Transcript_)

"A CERTAIN RICH MAN--." By Lawrence Perry 391
(From _Scribner's Magazine_)

THE PATH OF GLORY. By Mary Brecht Pulver 412
(From _The Saturday Evening Post_)

CHING, CHING, CHINAMAN. By Wilbur Daniel Steele 441
(From _The Pictorial Review_)

NONE SO BLIND. By Mary Synon 468
(From _Harper's Magazine_)

THE YEARBOOK OF THE AMERICAN SHORT STORY FOR 1917 483

Addresses of American Magazines Publishing Short
Stories 485

The Biographical Roll of Honor of American Short
Stories for 1917 487

The Roll of Honor of Foreign Short Stories in
American Magazines for 1917 506

The Best Books of Short Stories of 1917: A Critical
Summary 509

Volumes of Short Stories Published During 1917:
An Index 521

The Best Sixty-three American Short Stories of
1917: A Critical Summary 536

Magazine Averages for 1917 541

Index of Short Stories for 1917 544

[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.]