''The Smart Set Anthology'' is an
anthology
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of selections from ''
The Smart Set
''The Smart Set'' was an American literary magazine, founded by Colonel William d'Alton Mann and published from March 1900 to June 1930. Its headquarters was in New York City. During its Jazz Age heyday under the editorship of H. L. Mencken and G ...
'' literary magazine, edited by
Burton Rascoe
Arthur Burton Rascoe (October 22, 1892 - March 19, 1957), was an American journalist, editor and literary critic of the '' New York Herald Tribune''.
He was born in Fulton, Kentucky to Matthew L. Rascoe and Elizabeth Burton Rascoe. His fathe ...
and
Groff Conklin. It was first published in hardcover by
Reynal & Hitchcock
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in 1934, and reprinted as ''The Smart Set Anthology of World Famous Authors'' by Halcyon House in the same year. It was reissued by Grayson as ''The Bachelor's Companion'' in 1944. The book has the distinction of being the first anthology with which Conklin was involved in an editorial capacity; he went on to become a prolific anthologist, mostly of
science fiction
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.
[Webster, Bud.]
Anthopology 101: 41 Above the Rest: An Index to the Anthologies of Groff Conklin
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The book comprises a representative sample of the best pieces that had appeared in ''The Smart Set'' magazine, collecting works of fiction, poems, articles, plays, and miscellaneous pieces by various authors, together with an introduction by Rascoe. For pieces originally published in the magazine issue dates are provided below.
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Contents
*"'Smart Set' History" (introduction) (Burton Rascoe
Arthur Burton Rascoe (October 22, 1892 - March 19, 1957), was an American journalist, editor and literary critic of the '' New York Herald Tribune''.
He was born in Fulton, Kentucky to Matthew L. Rascoe and Elizabeth Burton Rascoe. His fathe ...
)
*"Orphant Annie" (short story) ( Thyra Samter Winslow) - Jun 1923
*"The Sensible Convict" (poem) (William Rose Benét
William Rose Benét (February 2, 1886 – May 4, 1950) was an American poet, writer, and editor. He was the older brother of Stephen Vincent Benét.
Early life and education
He was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Col. James Walker Benét a ...
) - Dec 1917
*"How the Lost Causes Were Removed from Valhalla" (short story) (Lord Dunsany
Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (; 24 July 1878 – 25 October 1957, usually Lord Dunsany) was an Anglo-Irish writer and dramatist. Over 90 volumes of fiction, essays, poems and plays appeared in his lifetime.Lanham, M ...
) - Oct 1919
*"Notes on the American Gentlewoman" (article) (Thomas Beer
Thomas Beer (November 22, 1889 – April 18, 1940) was an American biographer, novelist, essayist, satirist, and author of short fiction.
Born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, Beer graduated from Yale University in 1911 and studied law at Columbia Unive ...
) - Nov 1921
*"How I Discovered Bernard Shaw" (article) (Frank Harris
Frank Harris (14 February 1855 – 26 August 1931) was an Irish-American editor, novelist, short story writer, journalist and publisher, who was friendly with many well-known figures of his day.
Born in Ireland, he emigrated to the United State ...
) - Jul 1915
*"Ophelia" (poem) (Elinor Wylie
Elinor Morton Wylie (September 7, 1885 – December 16, 1928) was an American poet and novelist popular in the 1920s and 1930s. "She was famous during her life almost as much for her ethereal beauty and personality as for her melodious, sensu ...
) - Oct 1921
*"The End of Ilsa Menteith" (short story) ( Lilith Benda) - Aug 1916
*"Narcissus" (poem) (Robert Bridges
Robert Seymour Bridges (23 October 1844 – 21 April 1930) was an English poet who was Poet Laureate from 1913 to 1930. A doctor by training, he achieved literary fame only late in life. His poems reflect a deep Christian faith, and he is ...
) - Jun 1914
*"Benediction" (short story) ( F. Scott Fitzgerald) - Feb 1920
*"The Three Hermits" (poem) (W. B. Yeats
William Butler Yeats (13 June 186528 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and became a pillar of the Irish liter ...
) - Sep 1913
*"Ballade of Youth to Swinburne" (poem) ( Orrick Johns) - May 1913
*"From the Memoirs of a Private Detective" (article) ( Dashiell Hammett) - Mar 1923
*"Summer Rain" (poem) ( Amy Lowell) - Apr 1916
*"Los Angeles the Chemically Pure" (article) (Willard Huntington Wright
S. S. Van Dine (also styled S.S. Van Dine) is the pseudonym used by American art critic Willard Huntington Wright (October 15, 1888 – April 11, 1939) when he wrote detective novels. Wright was active in avant-garde cultural circles in pre-Wor ...
) - Mar 1913
*"Afterwards" (poem) (Charles Hanson Towne
Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was " ...
) - Oct 1906
*"A Shepherdess of Fauns" (short story) (F. Tennyson Jesse
Fryniwyd Tennyson Jesse Harwood (born Wynifried (Winifred) Margaret Jesse; 1 March 1888 – 6 August 1958) was an English criminologist, journalist and author (she also wrote as ''Wynifried Margaret Tennyson'').
Early life and marriage
Fryn ...
) - Oct 1913
*"Over the Telephone" (short story) ( Aldous Huxley) - Apr 1923
*"The Great Woods" (poem) (Arthur Davison Ficke
Arthur Davison Ficke (November 10, 1883 – November 30, 1945) was an American poet, playwright, and expert of Japanese art. Ficke had a national reputation as "a poet's poet", and "one of America's most expert sonneteers". Under the alias Ann ...
) - Sep 1923
*"On Cornell" (article) (Hendrik Willem van Loon
Hendrik Willem van Loon (January 14, 1882 – March 11, 1944) was a Dutch-American historian, journalist, and children's book author.
Life
He was born in Rotterdam, Netherlands, the son of Hendrik Willem van Loon and Elisabeth Johanna Hanken. ...
) - May 1922
*"Carnival" (poem) (Robert Hillyer
Robert Silliman Hillyer (June 3, 1895 – December 24, 1961) was an American poet and professor of English literature. He won a Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1934.
Early life
Hillyer was born in East Orange, New Jersey to an old Connecticut fa ...
) - Mar 1924
*"I’m a Stranger Here Myself" (short story) ( Sinclair Lewis) - Aug 1916
*"Spoof River Anthology" (poem) (Gordon Seagrove
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* Gordon (slave), escaped to a Union Army camp during the U.S. Civil War
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) - Mar 1916
*"The Mowers" (poem) (D. H. Lawrence
David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) was an English writer, novelist, poet and essayist. His works reflect on modernity, industrialization, sexuality, emotional health, vitality, spontaneity and instinct. His best-k ...
) - Nov 1913
*"Such a Pretty Little Picture" (short story) ( Dorothy Parker) - Dec 1922
*"The Morals of the Mormons" (article) ( Louis Sherwin) - Jun 1917
*"The Shadow" (poem) (Witter Bynner
Harold Witter Bynner (August 10, 1881 – June 1, 1968), also known by the pen name Emanuel Morgan, was an American poet and translator. He was known for his long residence in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and association with other literary figures ther ...
) - Dec 1913
*"Some Ladies and Jurgen" (short story) ( James Branch Cabell) - Jul 1918
*"Crêpe de Chine" (short story) ( James Stephens) - Jul 1918
*"Bagatelle" (poem) ( Edwin Markham) - Jul 1911
*"The Eternal Masculine" (short story) (Leonora Speyer
Leonora Speyer, Lady Speyer (née von Stosch; 7 November 1872 – 10 February 1956), was an American poet and violinist.
Life
She was born in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Count Ferdinand von Stosch of Mantze in Silesia, who fought for th ...
) - May 1919
*"Whitemail" (short story) ( Joyce Kilmer) - Mar 1914
*"The Rabbit-Hutch" (play) ( George Sterling) - Sep 1919
*"Threnody upon a Decadent Art" (article) (Joseph Wood Krutch
Joseph Wood Krutch (; November 25, 1893 – May 22, 1970) was an American author, critic, and naturalist who wrote nature books on the American Southwest. He is known for developing a pantheistic philosophy.
Biography
Born in Knoxville, Tenne ...
) - Jan 1921
*"The Commonsense of Monsieur Lebel" (short story) (Achmed Abdullah
Achmed Abdullah (12 May 1881 – 12 May 1945) was the pseudonym of American writer Alexander Nicholayevitch Romanoff (his legal name). He is most noted for his pulp stories of crime, mystery and adventure. He wrote screenplays for some successf ...
) - Apr 1917
*"Caste" (short story) (Burton Rascoe
Arthur Burton Rascoe (October 22, 1892 - March 19, 1957), was an American journalist, editor and literary critic of the '' New York Herald Tribune''.
He was born in Fulton, Kentucky to Matthew L. Rascoe and Elizabeth Burton Rascoe. His fathe ...
) - May 1921
*"Summer Thunder" (short story) ( Stephen V. Benét) - Sep 1920
*"Model Ballad of the Cook and the Clairvoyant" (poem) (Guy Wetmore Carryl
Guy Wetmore Carryl (4 March 1873 – 1 April 1904) was an American humorist and poet.
Biography
Carryl was born in New York City, the first-born of writer Charles Edward Carryl and Mary R. Wetmore.
He had his first article published in ''The N ...
) - Nov 1930
*"To a Broadway Hotel" (poem) ( Christopher Morley) - Mar 1918
*"Blissful Interlude" (short story) (Myron Brinig
Myron Brinig (December 22, 1896 – May 13, 1991) was an American author who wrote 22 novels from 1929 to 1958.
Biography
Early life and education
Brinig was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota to Romanian-Jewish parents, but grew up in Butte, Monta ...
) - Aug 1921
*"Maxims of Methuselah" (article) ( Gelett Burgess) - Jun 1911
*"Donkies" (short story) ( Leonid Andreyev) - Dec 1922
*"The Man Who Understood Women" (short story) ( Elsie McCormick) - Sep 1917
*"A Flood" (short story) ( George Moore) - Nov 1913
*"Freedom" (poem) ( Margaret Widdemer) - Mar 1919
*"An Epilogue to Love" (poem) (Arthur Symons
Arthur William Symons (28 February 186522 January 1945) was a British poet, critic and magazine editor.
Life
Born in Milford Haven, Wales, to Cornish parents, Symons was educated privately, spending much of his time in France and Italy. In 1884 ...
) - Feb 1918
*""All for One and One for All'" (short story) (Dorothy Canfield
Dorothy Canfield Fisher (February 17, 1879 – November 9, 1958) was an educational reformer, social activist, and best-selling American author in the early 20th century. She strongly supported women's rights, racial equality, and lifelong educat ...
) - Jul 1904
*"Rose Garland" (poem) (Richard Le Gallienne
Richard Le Gallienne (20 January 1866 – 15 September 1947) was an English author and poet. The British-American actress Eva Le Gallienne (1899–1991) was his daughter by his second marriage to Danish journalist Julie Nørregaard (1863–1942) ...
) - Nov 1910
*"Resurrection" (poem) () - Dec 1915
*"One Day More" (play) (Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, ; 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Poles in the United Kingdom#19th century, Polish-British novelist and short story writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest writers in t ...
) - Feb 1914
*"Kisses in the Train" (poem) (D. H. Lawrence
David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) was an English writer, novelist, poet and essayist. His works reflect on modernity, industrialization, sexuality, emotional health, vitality, spontaneity and instinct. His best-k ...
) - Oct 1913
*"Fifty Years Spent" (poem) ( Struthers Burt) - Dec 1913
*"Autumn in the Subway" (poem) ( J. Thorne Smith, Jr.) - Sep 1917
*"The Story Ashland Told at Dinner" (short story) (Ludwig Lewisohn
Ludwig Lewisohn (May 30, 1882 – December 31, 1955) was a novelist, literary critic, the drama critic for ''The Nation'' and then its associate editor. He was the editor of the New Palestine, an American Zionist journal. He taught at the Uni ...
) - Feb 1919
*"A Song" (poem) (Lizette Woodworth Reese
Lizette Woodworth Reese (January 9, 1856 – December 17, 1935) was an American poet and teacher. Born in Maryland, she taught English for almost five decades in the schools of Baltimore. Though Reese was successful in prose as well as in poetry ...
) - Mar 1923
*"Earth and Sea" (poem) (Oliver Gogarty
Oliver Joseph St. John Gogarty (17 August 1878 – 22 September 1957) was an Irish poet, author, otolaryngologist, athlete, politician, and well-known conversationalist. He served as the inspiration for Buck Mulligan in James Joyce's novel ...
) - Feb 1923
*"Drought" (poem) (Lizette Woodworth Reese
Lizette Woodworth Reese (January 9, 1856 – December 17, 1935) was an American poet and teacher. Born in Maryland, she taught English for almost five decades in the schools of Baltimore. Though Reese was successful in prose as well as in poetry ...
) - Jun 1913
*"The Fruit of Misadventure" (short story) ( Waldo Frank) - Jul 1915
*"The Fire Is Out in Acheron" (poem) ( Maxwell Anderson) - Jan 1921
*" Humoresque in Ham" (short story) (Ben Hecht
Ben Hecht (; February 28, 1894 – April 18, 1964) was an American screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, journalist, and novelist. A successful journalist in his youth, he went on to write 35 books and some of the most enjoyed screenplay ...
) - Apr 1918
*"Répétition Générale" (article) (George Jean Nathan
George Jean Nathan (February 14, 1882 – April 8, 1958) was an American drama critic and magazine editor. He worked closely with H. L. Mencken, bringing the literary magazine ''The Smart Set'' to prominence as an editor, and co-founding and ...
) - Jun 1919 (+2)
*"Réveil" (poem) (Donn Byrne
Donn Byrne (born Brian Oswald Patrick Donn-Byrne, ; 20 November 1889 – 18 June 1928) was an Irish novelist.
Biography
He was born in New York City in the United States where, he claimed, his Irish parents were on a business trip at the time ...
) - Oct 1915
*"The Secret of Success" (short story) ( Donald Ogden Stewart) - Nov 1921
*"The Renunciatory Gesture" (short story) ( Mabel McElliott) - Sep 1921
*"The Peripatetic Prince" (short story) ( John Reed) - Jun 1913
*"The Treasure" (short story) ( C. Y. Harrison) - Oct 1915
*"The Girl Who Couldn’t Go Wrong" (short story) ( Albert Payson Terhune) - Jul 1913
*"Lilith" (poem) (Louis Untermeyer
Louis Untermeyer (October 1, 1885 – December 18, 1977) was an American poet, anthologist, critic, and editor. He was appointed the fourteenth Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1961.
Life and career
Untermeyer was born in New Y ...
) - Jun 1913
*"Saturday Night Blues" (short story) ( Catherine Brody) - Oct 1920
*"The Lotus and the Bottle" (short story) (O. Henry
William Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862 – June 5, 1910), better known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American writer known primarily for his short stories, though he also wrote poetry and non-fiction. His works include "The Gift of the M ...
) - Jan 1902
*"A Declaration" (miscellaneous) (Jim Tully
Jim Tully (June 3, 1886 – June 22, 1947) was an American vagabond, pugilist, and writer. He enjoyed critical and commercial success as a writer in the 1920s and 1930s.
Biography
Born near St. Marys, Ohio, to James Dennis and Bridget Marie L ...
) - Dec 1923
*"Sonnet" (poem) ( Ben Ray Redman) - Apr 1923
*"The Green Elephant" (short story) ( Dashiell Hammett) - Oct 1923
*"An Incident of the Cosmos" (short story) ( P. Y. Anderson) - Jun 1923
*"Rum, Reading and Rebellion" (article) (John Macy
John Williams Macy Jr. (April 6, 1917 – December 22, 1986) was a United States Government administrator and civil servant.
Biography
Born in Chicago, he received a B.A. from Wesleyan University in 1938. In 1938 Macy moved to Washington, D.C. ...
) - Nov 1921
*"Miss Thompson" (novel) ( W. Somerset Maugham) - Apr 1921
*"Rope" (short story) ( Charles MacArthur) - Nov 1923
*"And Minstrels Flown with Pride" (poem) ( John McClure) - Oct 1920
*"Little Girl" (short story) ( Lee Pape) - Apr 1915
*"The Long Voyage Home" (play) ( Eugene G. O'Neill) - Oct 1917
*"The Whole Art of the Wooden Leg" (article) ( Laurence Stallings) - Mar 1923
*"The Blue Sphere" (short story) ( Theodore Dreiser) - Dec 1914
*"The Death of Sir Launcelot" (poem) ( Edgar Lee Masters) - Sep 1915
*"Just Him and Her" (short story) (Ruth Suckow
Ruth Suckow (August 6, 1892 – January 23, 1960) was an American writer from Iowa. She wrote novels and stories.
Biography
Suckow was born in Hawarden, a small town in Sioux County on the Big Sioux River in far northwestern Iowa, where her fath ...
) - Jan 1922
*"Slapdasher the Artist" (short story) (Felix Riesenberg
Felix Riesenberg (9 April 1879 – 19 November 1939) was an American maritime officer and writer of maritime professional, historical, and fictional literature in the early 20th century.
Biography
Riesenberg was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. ...
) - Apr 1911
*"The Kingdom of Thule" (poem) (Donn Byrne
Donn Byrne (born Brian Oswald Patrick Donn-Byrne, ; 20 November 1889 – 18 June 1928) was an Irish novelist.
Biography
He was born in New York City in the United States where, he claimed, his Irish parents were on a business trip at the time ...
) - Dec 1915
*"The Heart of a Tenor" (play) ( Frank Wedekind) - Jun 1913
*"The Boarding House" (short story) ( James Joyce)
*"Transvaluation" (poem) ( Orrick Johns) - Oct 1917
*"The Sentimentalist" (short story) ( Sara Teasdale) - Apr 1916
*"Tearsqueezer" (short story) ( Barry Benefield) - Oct 1913
*"The Rural Soul" (article) (Thomas Beer
Thomas Beer (November 22, 1889 – April 18, 1940) was an American biographer, novelist, essayist, satirist, and author of short fiction.
Born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, Beer graduated from Yale University in 1911 and studied law at Columbia Unive ...
) - Jan 1911
*"The History of a Prodigy" (short story) ( Lewis Mumford) - Aug 1921
*"The Regenerate" (short story) (Mazo de la Roche
Mazo de la Roche (; born Maisie Louise Roche; January 15, 1879 – July 12, 1961) was a Canadian writer who was the author of the ''Jalna (novel series), Jalna'' novels, one of the most popular series of books of her time.
Biography
Early li ...
) - Apr 1907
*"Ghosts" (article) (Edgar Saltus
Edgar Evertson Saltus (October 8, 1855 – July 31, 1921) was an American writer known for his highly refined prose style. His works paralleled those by European decadent authors such as Joris-Karl Huysmans, Gabriele D'Annunzio and Oscar Wild ...
) - Jun 1914
*"At Tio Juan" (short story) (Mary Austin Mary Austin may refer to:
* Mary Hunter Austin (1868–1934), American writer of fiction and non-fiction
* Mary V. Austin (1900–1986), Australian community worker and political activist
* Mary Brown Austin (1768–1824), mother of Texan pioneer S ...
) - Jun 1906
*"Jessica Screams" (short story) ( Floyd Dell) - Apr 1913
*"The Dead Are Silent" (short story) ( Arthur Schnitzler)
*"A Dead One" (poem) (Witter Bynner
Harold Witter Bynner (August 10, 1881 – June 1, 1968), also known by the pen name Emanuel Morgan, was an American poet and translator. He was known for his long residence in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and association with other literary figures ther ...
) - Nov 1913
*"Report of a Sunday Evening Talk at a Sanatorium for Female Alcoholics" (short story) ( Christopher Morley) - Apr 1918
*"Not Guilty" (short story) (Llewelyn Powys
Llewelyn Powys (13 August 1884 – 2 December 1939) was a British essayist, novelist and younger brother of John Cowper Powys and T. F. Powys.
Family
Powys was born in Dorchester, the son of the Reverend Charles Francis Powys (1843–1923), ...
) - Jul 1921
*"Wow" (short story) ( W. B. Seabrook) - Jan 1921
*"The Merry-Go-Round" (short story) ( Julia M. Peterkin) - Dec 1921
*"Ashes to Ashes" (short story) ( Nunnally Johnson) - May 1923
*"Paris After 8:15" (article) (George Jean Nathan
George Jean Nathan (February 14, 1882 – April 8, 1958) was an American drama critic and magazine editor. He worked closely with H. L. Mencken, bringing the literary magazine ''The Smart Set'' to prominence as an editor, and co-founding and ...
) - Jan 1914
*"The Parasite ages from the Book of Broadway (novella) ( George Bronson-Howard) - Jan 1914
*"Sun Magic" (poem) (Thomas Moult
Thomas Moult (1893–1974) was a versatile English journalist and writer, and one of the Georgian poets. He is known for his annual anthologies ''Best Poems of the Year'', 1922 to 1943, which were popular verse selections taken from periodicals on ...
) - Feb 1921
*"Rubies in Crystal" (short story) ( Grace H. Flandrau) - Jun 1921
*"Silence" (poem) (Babette Deutsch
Babette Deutsch (September 22, 1895 – November 13, 1982) was an American poet, critic, translator, and novelist.
Background
Babette Deutsch was born on September 22, 1895, in New York City. Her parents were of Michael Deutsch and Melanie Fish ...
) - Oct 1917
*"Reflections" (article) ( W. L. Werner) - Aug 1921
*"His Stenographer" (poem) (Harriet Monroe
Harriet Monroe (December 23, 1860 – September 26, 1936) was an American editor, scholar, literary critic, poet, and patron of the arts. She was the founding publisher and long-time editor of ''Poetry'' magazine, first published in 1912. As a ...
) - Jan 1914
*"Aesthetic Jurisprudence" (review) (George Jean Nathan
George Jean Nathan (February 14, 1882 – April 8, 1958) was an American drama critic and magazine editor. He worked closely with H. L. Mencken, bringing the literary magazine ''The Smart Set'' to prominence as an editor, and co-founding and ...
) - Jul 1921
*"Index"
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