To Charles Scribner's Sons and Mr. Maxwell Struthers Burt for permission to reprint "The Water-Hole," first published in _Scribner's Magazine_; to Harper and Brothers and Mr. Donn Byrne for permission to reprint "The Wake," first published in _Harper's Magazine_; to The Masses Publishing Company and Mr. Will Levington Comfort for permission to reprint "Chautonville," first published in _The Masses_; to Mr. William Addison Dwiggins for permission to reprint "La Dernière Mobilisation;" to P.F. Collier & Son, Incorporated, Galbraith Welch, and Mr. James Francis Dwyer for permission to reprint "The Citizen," first published in _Collier's Weekly_; to Mitchell Kennerley and Mrs. Frances Gregg Wilkinson for permission to reprint "Whose Dog--?" first published in _The Forum_; to Miss Margaret C. Anderson and Mr. Ben Hecht for permission to reprint "Life," first published in _The Little Review_; to the Century Company and Mr. Arthur Johnson for permission to reprint "Mr. Eberdeen's House," first published in _The Century Magazine_; to the Ridgway Company and Mr. Virgil Jordan for permission to include "Vengeance is Mine!" first published in _Everybody's Magazine_; to _The Illustrated Sunday Magazine_ and Mr. Harris Merton Lyon for permission to reprint "The Weaver Who Clad the Summer," first published in _The Illustrated Sunday Magazine_; to Mr. John T. Frederick and Mr. Walter J. Muilenburg for permission to reprint "Heart of Youth," first published in _The Midland_; to the Every Week Corporation and Mr. Newbold Noyes for permission to reprint "The End of the Path," first published in _Every Week_ and _The Associated Sunday Magazine_; to _The Illustrated Sunday Magazine_ and Mr. Seumas O'Brien for permission to reprint "The Whale and the Grass-Hopper," first published in _The Illustrated Sunday Magazine_; to _The Boston Daily Advertiser_, _The Boston Evening Record_, and the Newspaper Enterprise Association for permission to reprint "In Berlin," by Mary Boyle O'Reilly, first published in _The Boston Daily Advertiser_; to the Century Company and Miss Katharine Metcalf Roof for permission to reprint "The Waiting Years," first published in _The Century Magazine_; to The Bellman Company and Mr. Benjamin Rosenblatt for permission to reprint "Zelig," first published in _The Bellman_; to The Outlook Company and Mrs. Elsie Singmaster Lewars for permission to include "The Survivors," first published in _The Outlook_; to Harper and Brothers and Mr. Wilbur Daniel Steele for permission to reprint "The Yellow Cat," first published in _Harper's Magazine_; to Charles Scribner's Sons and Miss Mary Synon for permission to reprint "The Bounty Jumper," first published in _Scribner's Magazine_; and to The Curtis Publishing Company and Miss Fannie Hurst for permission to