MARGARET SHERWOOD
HAMLIN GARLAND
JAMES BRANCH CABELL
STUART P. SHERMAN
WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE
STEPHEN LEACOCK
MAJOR RUPERT HUGHES
EUGENE MANLOVE RHODES

The Committee of Award read throughout the year, month by month, scores
of stories, rejecting many, debating over others, and passing up a
comparative few for final judgment. In January, out of the hundred or
more remaining, they salvaged the following:

1. The Kitchen Gods, by Guglielma Alsop (_Century_, September).

2. Facing It, by Edwina Stanton Babcock (_Pictorial Review_, June).

3. The Fairest Sex, by Mary Hastings Bradley (_Metropolitan_, March).

4. Bargain Price, by Donn Byrne (_Cosmopolitan_, March).

5. Porcelain Cups, by James Branch Cabell (_Century_, November).

6. Gum Shoes, 4-B, by Forrest Crissey (_Harper's_, December).

7. The Trial in Tom Belcher's Store, by Samuel A. Derieux (_American_,
June).

8. April Twenty-fifth As Usual, by Edna Ferber (_Ladies Home Journal_,