Grateful acknowledgment for permission to include the stories and other material in this volume is made to the following authors, editors and publishers:
To the Editor of _The Century Magazine_, the Editor of _The Bookman_, the Editor of _The Dial_, the Editor of _The Pictorial Review_, the Editor of _The Saturday Evening Post_, the Editor of _The American Magazine_, the Editor of _Scribner's Magazine_, the Editor of _Good Housekeeping_, the Editor of _Harper's Magazine_, the Editor of _The Cosmopolitan_, the Editors of _The Smart Set_, The Editor of _The Midland_, Boni & Liveright, Inc., George H. Doran Co., B.W. Huebsch, Doubleday, Page & Co., Sherwood Anderson, Konrad Bercovici, Maxwell Struthers Burt, Irvin S. Cobb, Lincoln Colcord, Charles J. Finger, Waldo Frank, Katharine Fullerton Gerould, Ellen Glasgow, Susan Glaspell, Richard Matthews Hallet, Frances Noyes Hart, Fannie Hurst, Manuel Komroff, Frank Luther Mott, Vincent O'Sullivan, Wilbur Daniel Steele, Harriet Maxon Thayer, Charles Hanson Towne, and Mary Heaton Vorse.
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, 1921 and September, 1922 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_.
BROTHERS. By Sherwood Anderson. 3 (From _The Bookman_)
FANUTZA. By Konrad Bercovici. 13 (From _The Dial_)
EXPERIMENT. By Maxwell Struthers Burt. 28 (From _The Pictorial Review_)
DARKNESS. By Irvin S. Cobb. 52 (From _The Saturday Evening Post_)
AN INSTRUMENT OF THE GODS. By Lincoln Colcord. 82 (From _The American Magazine_)
THE LIZARD GOD. By Charles J. Finger. 109 (From _All's Well_)
UNDER THE DOME. By Waldo Frank. 130 (From _The Dial_)
FRENCH EVA. By Katharine Fullerton Gerould. 142 (From _Scribner's Magazine_)