The Smart Set Anthology


The Smart Set Anthology is an anthology of selections from The Smart Set literary magazine, edited by Burton Rascoe and Groff Conklin. It was first published in hardcover by Reynal & Hitchcock 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.
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.

Contents

  • "'Smart Set' History"
  • "Orphant Annie" - Jun 1923
  • "The Sensible Convict" - Dec 1917
  • "How the Lost Causes Were Removed from Valhalla" - Oct 1919
  • "Notes on the American Gentlewoman" - Nov 1921
  • "How I Discovered Bernard Shaw" - Jul 1915
  • "Ophelia" - Oct 1921
  • "The End of Ilsa Menteith" - Aug 1916
  • "Narcissus" - Jun 1914
  • "Benediction" - Feb 1920
  • "The Three Hermits" - Sep 1913
  • "Ballade of Youth to Swinburne" - May 1913
  • "From the Memoirs of a Private Detective" - Mar 1923
  • "Summer Rain" - Apr 1916
  • "Los Angeles the Chemically Pure" - Mar 1913
  • "Afterwards" - Oct 1906
  • "A Shepherdess of Fauns" - Oct 1913
  • "Over the Telephone" - Apr 1923
  • "The Great Woods" - Sep 1923
  • "On Cornell" - May 1922
  • "Carnival" - Mar 1924
  • "I’m a Stranger Here Myself" - Aug 1916
  • "Spoof River Anthology" - Mar 1916
  • "The Mowers" - Nov 1913
  • "Such a Pretty Little Picture" - Dec 1922
  • "The Morals of the Mormons" - Jun 1917
  • "The Shadow" - Dec 1913
  • "Some Ladies and Jurgen" - Jul 1918
  • "Crêpe de Chine" - Jul 1918
  • "Bagatelle" - Jul 1911
  • "The Eternal Masculine" - May 1919
  • "Whitemail" - Mar 1914
  • "The Rabbit-Hutch" - Sep 1919
  • "Threnody upon a Decadent Art" - Jan 1921
  • "The Commonsense of Monsieur Lebel" - Apr 1917
  • "Caste" - May 1921
  • "Summer Thunder" - Sep 1920
  • "Model Ballad of the Cook and the Clairvoyant" - Nov 1930
  • "To a Broadway Hotel" - Mar 1918
  • "Blissful Interlude" - Aug 1921
  • "Maxims of Methuselah" - Jun 1911
  • "Donkies" - Dec 1922
  • "The Man Who Understood Women" - Sep 1917
  • "A Flood" - Nov 1913
  • "Freedom" - Mar 1919
  • "An Epilogue to Love" - Feb 1918
  • ""All for One and One for All'" - Jul 1904
  • "Rose Garland" - Nov 1910
  • "Resurrection" - Dec 1915
  • "One Day More" - Feb 1914
  • "Kisses in the Train" - Oct 1913
  • "Fifty Years Spent" - Dec 1913
  • "Autumn in the Subway" - Sep 1917
  • "The Story Ashland Told at Dinner" - Feb 1919
  • "A Song" - Mar 1923
  • "Earth and Sea" - Feb 1923
  • "Drought" - Jun 1913
  • "The Fruit of Misadventure" - Jul 1915
  • "The Fire Is Out in Acheron" - Jan 1921
  • " Humoresque in Ham" - Apr 1918
  • "Répétition Générale" - Jun 1919
  • "Réveil" - Oct 1915
  • "The Secret of Success" - Nov 1921
  • "The Renunciatory Gesture" - Sep 1921
  • "The Peripatetic Prince" - Jun 1913
  • "The Treasure" - Oct 1915
  • "The Girl Who Couldn’t Go Wrong" - Jul 1913
  • "Lilith" - Jun 1913
  • "Saturday Night Blues" - Oct 1920
  • "The Lotus and the Bottle" - Jan 1902
  • "A Declaration" - Dec 1923
  • "Sonnet" - Apr 1923
  • "The Green Elephant" - Oct 1923
  • "An Incident of the Cosmos" - Jun 1923
  • "Rum, Reading and Rebellion" - Nov 1921
  • "Miss Thompson" - Apr 1921
  • "Rope" - Nov 1923
  • "And Minstrels Flown with Pride" - Oct 1920
  • "Little Girl" - Apr 1915
  • "The Long Voyage Home" - Oct 1917
  • "The Whole Art of the Wooden Leg" - Mar 1923
  • "The Blue Sphere" - Dec 1914
  • "The Death of Sir Launcelot" - Sep 1915
  • "Just Him and Her" - Jan 1922
  • "Slapdasher the Artist" - Apr 1911
  • "The Kingdom of Thule" - Dec 1915
  • "The Heart of a Tenor" - Jun 1913
  • "The Boarding House"
  • "Transvaluation" - Oct 1917
  • "The Sentimentalist" - Apr 1916
  • "Tearsqueezer" - Oct 1913
  • "The Rural Soul" - Jan 1911
  • "The History of a Prodigy" - Aug 1921
  • "The Regenerate" - Apr 1907
  • "Ghosts" - Jun 1914
  • "At Tio Juan" - Jun 1906
  • "Jessica Screams" - Apr 1913
  • "The Dead Are Silent"
  • "A Dead One" - Nov 1913
  • "Report of a Sunday Evening Talk at a Sanatorium for Female Alcoholics" - Apr 1918
  • "Not Guilty" - Jul 1921
  • "Wow" - Jan 1921
  • "The Merry-Go-Round" - Dec 1921
  • "Ashes to Ashes" - May 1923
  • "Paris After 8:15" - Jan 1914
  • "The Parasite " - Jan 1914
  • "Sun Magic" - Feb 1921
  • "Rubies in Crystal" - Jun 1921
  • "Silence" - Oct 1917
  • "Reflections" - Aug 1921
  • "His Stenographer" - Jan 1914
  • "Aesthetic Jurisprudence" - Jul 1921
  • "Index"