The Best Short Stories of 1917

The Stories Chosen for This Year's Anthology: ---------------------------------------- ---------- <table> <thead> <tr> <th>Title<br></th> <th>Author<br></th> <th>(Originally<br>Published In)</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td>The Excursion</td> <td>Edwina Stanton Babcock</td> <td>(Pictorial Review Oct 1917)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Onnie</td> <td>Thomas Beer</td> <td>(The Century Magazine May 1917)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>A Cup of Tea</td> <td>Maxwell Struthers Burt</td> <td>(Scribner’s Jul 1917)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Lonely Places</td> <td>Francis Buzzell</td> <td>(Pictorial Review Dec 1917)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Boys Will Be Boys [Judge William Pitman Priest “Old Judge Priest”]</td> <td>Irvin S. Cobb</td> <td>(The Saturday Evening Post Oct 20 1917)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Laughter</td> <td>Charles Caldwell Dobie</td> <td>(Harper’s Apr 1917)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Emperor of Elam</td> <td>H. G. Dwight</td> <td>(The Century Magazine Jul 1917)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Gay Old Dog</td> <td>Edna Ferber</td> <td>(Metropolitan Magazine Oct 1917)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Knight’s Move</td> <td>Katharine Fullerton Gerould</td> <td>(Atlantic Monthly Feb 1917)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>A Jury of Her Peers</td> <td>Susan Glaspell</td> <td>(Every Week Mar 5 1917)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Bunker Mouse</td> <td>Frederick Stuart Greene</td> <td>(The Century Magazine Mar 1917)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Rainbow Pete</td> <td>Richard Matthews Hallet</td> <td>(Pictorial Review Oct 1917)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Get Ready the Wreaths</td> <td>Fannie Hurst</td> <td>(Cosmopolitan Sep 1917)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Strange-Looking Man</td> <td>Fanny Kemble Johnson</td> <td>(The Pagan Dec 1917)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Caller in the Night</td> <td>Burton Kline</td> <td>(Stratford Journal Dec 1917)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Interval</td> <td>Vincent O’Sullivan</td> <td>(Boston Evening Transcript Sep 8 1917)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>“A Certain Rich Man—”</td> <td>Lawrence Perry</td> <td>(Scribner’s Nov 1917)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>The Path of Glory</td> <td>Mary Brecht Pulver</td> <td>(The Saturday Evening Post Mar 10 1917)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Ching, Ching, Chinaman</td> <td>Wilbur Daniel Steele</td> <td>(Pictorial Review Jun 1917)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>None So Blind</td> <td>Mary Synon</td> <td>(Harper’s Oct 1917)</td> </tr> </tbody> </table>