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This literary volume is from 1920. Summary from the book's Foreword: At the risk of supererogation I desire to state emphatically that these twenty authors are only representative of our short story writers. I labor under no delusion that they are all we have of high rank, rather am I inclined to suspect that the first prospective reader will find his favorite story teller missing. Some of my own preferred stylists are con- spicuously absent; and, although for the most part I have included those whom within prescribed limits I place first, I regretfully record the absentees. The short story is the literary medium that supersedes all others in America; one small volume is a container too exiguous for even its chief authors. According to the dominant principle working throughout the series of which this book is a unit, the writers discussed should be living or at least con- temporary. If, by request of the publishers. Jack London and "O. Henry" were to be replevined from the famous dead, I was of the opinion that Richard Harding Davis should not be omitted. Henry James, from a literary point of view, would precede any of these three. For reasons later forthcoming, how- ever, he is not among those present. The seventeen living writers I have chosen on three counts: sig- nificance of work in time or theme or other respect; weight or actual value of work, and quantity of work measured by the number of stories or story volumes. It happens that certain significant writers may have been left out because of their having turned, after one momentous contribution to the short story, to the novel, or for other reason having failed to produce a corpus of short story material. George W. Cable's place in literature was established primarily through Old Creole Days; but in the opinion of the present writer the niche he occupies is that of novelist. "Octave Thanet" one might rightly expect to find here. But only her first volume had been pubHshed when Ham- lin Garland's Main-Travelled Roads appeared, and there were stronger arguments for his inclusion. Many recent writers have published in leading periodicals stories which have not yet found preservation between the covers of a book. There are enough of these writers alone to justify a volume of reviews. Table of Contents: CHAPTER I - Alice Brown CHAPTER II - James Branch Cabell CHAPTER III - Dorothy Canfield CHAPTER IV - Robert W. Chambers CHAPTER V - Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb CHAPTER VI - James Brendan Connolly CHAPTER Vll - Richard Harding Davis CHAPTER VIII - Margaret Wade Deland CHAPTER IX - EdnaFerber CHAPTER X - Mary Wilkins Freeman CHAPTER XI - Hamlin Garland CHAPTER XII - William Sidney Porter ("O. Henry") CHAPTER XIII - Joseph Hergesheimer CHAPTER XIV - Fannie Hurst CHAPTER XV - Jack London CHAPTER XVI - James Brander Matthews CHAPTER XVII - Melville Davisson Post CHAPTER XVIII - Mary Roberts Rinehart CHAPTER XIX - Booth Tarkington CHAPTER XX - Edith Wharton

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