ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The original responsibility for some of these stories—or at any rate the original copyright—was allotted as follows: "The Prize Package," Collier's Weekly (1918); "Urn Burial," Every Week (1918); "The Climacteric," The Smart Set (1918); "The Pert Little Hat," The Metropolitan (1919); "The Battle of Manila Envelopes," The Bookman (1920); "The Commutation Chophouse," The New York Evening Post (1920); "The Curious Case of Kenelm Digby," The Bookman (1921); "Gloria and the Garden of Sweden," Munsey's (1921); "Punch and Judy," The Outlook (1921).
All but one of these publications are still in existence. To their editors and owners the author expresses his indebtedness and his congratulation.
