At a meeting in January, 1919, the Committee of Award agreed upon the further conditions that the story must be the work of an American author, and must first appear in 1919 in an American publication. At the same time an Honorary Committee was established, composed of writers and editors, whose pleasure it might be to offer advice and propose stories for consideration. The Honorary Committee consisted of GERTRUDE ATHERTON EDWARD J. O'BRIEN FANNIE HURST JOHN MACY BURGES JOHNSON MRS. EDWIN MARKHAM ROBERT MORSS LOVETT JOHN S. PHILLIPS WILLIAM MARION REEDY VIRGINIA RODERICK WALTER ROBERTS CHARLES G. NORRIS EDWARD E. HALE MAX EASTMAN CHARLES CALDWELL DOBIE 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_, July). 9. The Mottled Slayer, by George Gilbert (_Sunset_, August). 10. Dog Eat Dog, by Ben Hecht (_The Little Review_, April). 11. Blue Ice, by Joseph Hergesheimer (_Saturday Evening Post_, December 13). 12. Innocence, by Rupert Hughes (_Cosmopolitan_, September). 13. Humoresque, by Fannie Hurst (_Cosmopolitan_, March). 14. The Yellow Streak, by Ellen La Motte (_Century_, March). 15. The Elephant Remembers, by Edison Marshall (_Everybody's_, October). 16. England to America, by Margaret Prescott Montague (_Atlantic_, September). 17. Five Thousand Dollars Reward, by Melville D. Post (_Saturday Evening Post_, February 15). 18. The Lubbeny Kiss, by Louise Rice (_Ainslee's_, October). 19. The High Cost of Conscience, by Beatrice Ravenel (_Harper's_, January). 20. The Red Mark, by John Russell (_Collier's_, April 15). 21. The Trap, by Myra Sawhill (_American_, May). 22. Evening Primroses, by Anne D. Sedgwick (_Atlantic_, July). 23. Autumn Crocuses, by Anne D. Sedgwick (_Atlantic_, August). 24. The Blood of the Dragon, by Thomas Grant Springer (_Live Stories_, May). 25. Contact, by Wilbur Daniel Steele (_Harper's_, March). 26. For They Know not What They Do, by Wilbur Daniel Steele (_Pictorial Review_, July).