The Best Short Stories of 1919 Part 62

(34) HALLET, RICHARD MATTHEWS (_for biography, see_ 1917).

*Anchor.

*To the Bitter End.

HARRISON, DON.

*Mixing.

HARRISON, GROVER.

Greatest Gift.

(25) HECHT, BEN (_for biography, see_ 1918).

Dog Eat Dog.

Yellow Goat.

(5) HERGESHEIMER, JOSEPH (_for biography, see_ 1918).

*Meeker Ritual.

(2345) HURST, FANNIE (_for biography, see_ 1917).

*Humoresque.

IMRIE, WALTER MCLAREN. A young Canadian writer, who served in the Canadian Hospital Service during the war. Lives in Toronto, Ont.

Daybreak.

INGERSOLL, WILL E. Born at High Bluff, Manitoba, in 1880. Two months later his father continued his journey west to Shoal Lake, Manitoba, where he took up a homestead. Received his education partly at the village school, partly from the Anglican clergyman who was a friend of his father, but mostly from a trunk full of books which his father and mother had brought from the East. Came to Winnipeg in his early twenties with one hundred and fifty dollars; hired a garret and wrote hard while the money lasted; placed his first story with Everybody's Magazine, August, 1905, and has been in journalism since. He is now on the Winnipeg Free Press. Author of "Road that Led Home," 1918. Lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

*Centenarian.

(3) IRWIN, INEZ HAYNES (INEZ HAYNES GILLMORE). Born at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1873. Educated in the Girls' High School and Normal School, Boston, and Radcliffe College.

Married to Will Irwin. Author of "June Jeopardy," 1908; "Maida's Little Shop," 1910; "Phoebe and Ernest," 1910; "Janey," 1911; "Phoebe, Ernest and Cupid," 1912; "Angel Island," 1913; "Ollivant Orphans," 1915; "Lady of Kingdoms,"

1917. Lives in Scituate, Ma.s.s.

Treasure.

IRWIN, WALLACE. Born at Oneida, N. Y., 1876. Educated at Denver High School and Leland Stanford University. Engaged in newspaper work in San Francisco, 1901; editor of Overland Monthly, 1902; on the staff of Collier's Weekly, 1906-7; member of Committee on Public Information, 1917-19.

Author of "Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum," 1902; "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Jr.," 1902; "Fairy Tales up to Now," 1904; "Nautical Lays of a Landsman," 1904; "At the Sign of the Dollar," 1904; "Chinatown Ballads," 1905; "Random Rhymes and Odd Numbers," 1906; "Letters of a j.a.panese School Boy,"

1909; "Mr. Togo, Maid of All Work," 1913; "Pilgrims into Folly," 1917. Lives in New York City.

*Wandering Stars.

(25) JOHNSTON, ARTHUR (_for biography, see_ 1918).

*Riders in the Dark.

(12) JOHNSTON, CALVIN. Born at Springfield, Mo., October 6, 1876. Educated in the common schools. Short story writer.

Chief interests: Establis.h.i.+ng National Commercial Airways; writing posthumous novel. Author of "The Pariah," published in Harper's Weekly, December 9, 1905; "Veteran's Last Campaign,"

Harper's Monthly, June, 1906.

*Messengers.

JONES, HOWARD MUMFORD.

*Mrs. Drainger's Veil.

(45) KLINE, BURTON (_for biography, see_ 1917).

Living Ghost.

LA MOTTE, ELLEN N.

*Under a Wine-Gla.s.s.

(5) LIEBERMAN, ELIAS (_for biography, see_ 1918).

*Thing of Beauty.

(4) LONDON, JACK (_for biography, see_ 1917).

On the Makaloa Mat.

MACMa.n.u.s, SEUMAS.

Far Adventures of Billy Burns.

Tinker of Tamlacht.

MAXWELL, HELENA. Born November 22, 1896, in Iowa City, Iowa. Her father was Scotch, and was a surgeon in the regular army at the time of the Spanish-American War. Lived most of her life in Iowa. Attended school in Was.h.i.+ngton, D. C. Lived much in the South. Now a Senior at the University of Idaho, at Moscow, Idaho, where her husband, Baker Brownell, is an a.s.sistant professor of journalism. Chief interests, aside from writing, are Bach, the New Republic, woman suffrage, and climbing mountains. First story was written at the age of nine, offered to The Youth's Companion for $100.

It was not accepted. First published story was in The Pagan, September, 1919, "West of Topeka."

(2) MITCh.e.l.l, MARY ESTHER. Born in New York City, 1863.

Educated at the public schools of Bath, Me., and Radcliffe College.

First short story published in the Youth's Companion, 1892 or 1893. Lives in Arlington, Ma.s.s.

Jonas and the Tide.

(3) MONTAGUE, MARGARET PRESCOTT. Born at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., in 1878, and educated at home and in private schools. Author of "The Poet, Miss Kate and I," 1905; "Sowing of Alderson Cree," 1907; "In Calvert's Valley," 1908; "Linda," 1912; "Closed Doors," 1915. Lives in White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.

*England to America.

MORAVSKY, MARIA. Born in Warsaw, Poland, Dec. 31, 1890.

Received her primary school education in Poland and University education in Russia. Came to America in 1917. First short story published in English, "Friends.h.i.+p of Men," Harper's Magazine, Feb., 1919. Chief interests, poetry, travelling, psychology, and the welfare of humanity. Published several books in Russian between 1914 and 1917, including "By the Harbor,"

"Cinderella Thinks," "Orange Peels," and "Flowers in the Cellar." Used to write stories for the leading Russian magazines.

"I think America taught me how to write better fiction, for the art of short story writing is more highly developed here.

At first I wrote in Polish, then in Russian. I changed to English because yours is the richest language in the world. I try reverently to learn it well." Lives in New York City.

Friends.h.i.+p of Men.

MURRAY, ROY IRVING.

*First Commandment with Promise.

MUTH, EDNA TUCKER.

White Wake.

NICHOLL, LOUISE TOWNSEND. Born in Scotch Plains, N. J., in 1890, graduated from Smith College and has been on the staff of the New York Evening Post since 1913. Her chief interest is poetry, and she is now a.s.sociate Editor of Contemporary Verse. She is the author of a critical volume on John Masefield, to be published this season. Lives in New York City.

Her first short story, "The Little Light," was published in the Stratford Journal in February, 1919.

Little Light.

(4) NORTON, ROY (_for biography, see_ 1917).

This Hero Thing.

PAGE, HELEN. Born in Chestnut Hill, Ma.s.s., 1892. Graduated from the Misses Brown School, Providence, R. I., and Pratt Inst.i.tute, Brooklyn, N. Y. Has been an errand girl in a department store, sold coats and suits, clerked in a book section, written advertising copy for woman's wear, written free lance articles, done publicity work, and is now conducting a tea room in Greenwich Village, New York City. "Rebound" is her first published story.

*Rebound.

(5) PATTERSON, NORMA (_for biography, see_ 1918).

What They Brought Out of France.