Chapter V (8)

_Antin, Mary._
*Lie, The. Atlantic Monthly Press.

_Bacheller, Irving A._
Story of a Passion. Roycrofters.

_Bacon, Josephine Daskam._
On Our Hill. Scribner.

_Bagnold, Enid._
Diary Without Dates. Luce.

_Barton, George._
Strange Adventures of Bromley Barnes. Page.

_Bell, Robert B. H._
Laughing Bear. Shores.

_Bellegarde, Sophie de._
Russian Soldier-Peasant. Young Churchman.

_Bierce, Ambrose._
*Can Such Things Be? Boni and Liveright.
*In the Midst of Life. Boni and Liveright.

_Bottome, Phyllis._
*Helen of Troy, and Rose. Century.

_Brown, Alice._
*Flying Teuton. Macmillan.

_Buffum, G. Tower._
On Two Frontiers. Lothrop, Lee and Shepard.

_Burt, Maxwell Struthers._
*John O’May, and Other Stories. Scribner.

_Butler, Ellis Parker._
Philo Gubb. Houghton-Mifflin.

_Canfield, Dorothy._
*Home Fires in France. Holt

_Chapin, Maud._
Rush-light Stories. Duffield.

_Cobb, Irvin S._
*Thunders of Silence. Doran.

_Davis, J. Frank._
Almanzar. Holt.

_Dodge, Henry Irving._
Skinner’s Big Idea. Harper.
Yellow Dog. Harper.

_Dougherty, Harry Vincent._
Way of the Transgressor. Roycrofters.

_Douglas, A. Donald._
From their Galleries. Four Seas.

_Dreiser, Theodore._
*Free, and Other Stories. Boni and Liveright.

_Driggs, Laurence la Tourette._
Adventures of Arnold Adair, American Ace. Little, Brown.

_Duncan, Norman._
*Battles Royal Down North. Revell.
*Harbor Tales Down North. Revell.

_Eells, Elsie Spicer._
*Tales of Giants from Brazil. Dodd, Mead.

_Ferber, Edna._
*Cheerful—By Request. Doubleday, Page.

_Foote, John Taintor._
Lucky Seven. Appleton.

_Ford, Sewell._
House of Torchy. Clode.
Shorty McCabe Looks ’Em Over. Clode.

_Fox, Frances Margaret._
Seven Little Wise Men. Page.

_Frazer, Elizabeth._
Old Glory and Verdun. Duffield.

_Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins._
*Edgewater People. Harper.

_French, Joseph Lewis_, _editor_.
*Great Ghost Stories. Dodd, Mead.

_Ganoe, William Addleman._
*Ruggs—R. O. T. C. Atlantic Monthly Press.

_Gatlin, Dana._
Full Measure of Devotion. Doubleday, Page.

_Giesy, J. U._
*Mimi. Harper.

_Glass, Montague._
Worrying Won’t Win. Harper.

_Goldsberry, Louise Dunham._
Ted. Badger.

_Greene, Frances Nimmo._
America First. Scribner.

_Griswold, Florence._
*Hindu Fairy Tales. Lothrop, Lee and Shepard.

_Hamby, William H._
Way of Success. Laird and Lee.

_Hardy, Thomas._
*Two Wessex Tales. Four Seas.

_Harris, Joel Chandler._
*Uncle Remus Returns. Houghton-Mifflin.

“_Hay, Timothy._”
_See_ Rollins, Montgomery.

_Hearn, Lafcadio._
*Japanese Fairy Tales. Boni and Liveright.
*Karma. Boni and Liveright.

“_Henry, O._” (_Sidney Porter._)
*Ransom of Red Chief and Other O. Henry Stories for Boys, As
Chosen by Franklin K. Mathiews. Doubleday, Page.

_Hergesheimer, Joseph._
*Gold and Iron. Knopf.

_Herring, J. L._
Saturday Night Sketches. Badger.

_Hughes, Rupert._
*Long Ever Ago. Harper.

_Hunt, Edward Eyre._
*Tales from a Famished Land. Doubleday, Page.

_Hurst, Fannie._
*Gaslight Sonatas. Harper.

_James, Henry._
*Gabrielle de Bergerac. Boni and Liveright.

_King, Basil._
*Abraham’s Bosom. Harper.

_Law, Frederick Houk_, _editor_.
*Modern Short Stories. Century.

_Leonard, Orville H._
*Land Where the Sunsets Go. Sherman, French.

_Levinger, Elma Ehrlich._
Jewish Holyday Stories. Bloch. Pub. Co.

_London, Jack._
*Red One. Macmillan.

_McKenna_, “_Jawn._”
Stories. Published by the Author.

_MacLean, Annie Marion._
“Cheero!” Woman’s Press.

_McSpadden, J. W._, _editor_.
*Famous Ghost Stories. Crowell.

_Mahon, Shiela._
Irish Joy Stories. Mahon Press.

_Marcy, Mary Edna Tobias._
Stories of the Cave People. Kerr.

_Masson, Thomas L._, _editor_.
Best Short Stories. Doubleday, Page.

_Masters, Edgar Lee._
*Toward the Gulf. Macmillan.

_Mayo, Katharine._
Standard Bearers. Houghton-Mifflin.

*_Means, E. K._
Putnam.

_Merwin, Samuel._
Henry is Twenty. Bobbs-Merrill.

_Morley, Christopher._
*Shandygaff. Doubleday, Page.

_Morse, Richard._
Fear God in Your Own Village. Holt

_Murphy, Marguerite._
Necklace of Jewels. Page.

_Neal, Robert W._, _editor_.
To-day’s Short Stories Analyzed. Oxford University Press.

_O’Brien, Edward J._, _editor_.
Best Short Stories of 1917. Small, Maynard.

_Orcutt, William Dana._
White Road of Mystery. Lane.

_Poe, Edgar Allan._
*Gold-Bug and Other Tales. Four Seas.

_Porter, Sidney._
_See_ “Henry, O.”

_Post, Melville Davisson._
*Uncle Abner—Master of Mysteries. Appleton.

_Pratt, A. H._
My Tussle with the Devil. I. M. Y. Co.

_Reed, Earl H._
*Sketches in Duneland. Lane.

_Reeve, Arthur B._
Panama Plot. Harper.
Soul Scar. Harper.

_Rice, Alice Hegan._
*Miss Mink’s Soldier. Century.

_Richmond, Grace S._
Enlisting Wife. Doubleday, Page.

_Rideout, Henry Milner._
*Key of the Fields, and Boldero. Duffield.

_Robbins, Leo._
Mary the Merry. Stratford Co.

_Roberts, Elizabeth Judson._
Indian Stories of the Southwest. Wagner.

_Rollins, Montgomery._ (“_Timothy Hay._”)
Over Here Stories. Marshall Jones Co.

_Rutledge, Archibald Hamilton._
Tom and I On the Old Plantation. Stokes.

_Sanborn, Gertrude._
Blithesome Jottings. Four Seas.

_Schnittkind, Henry T._, _editor_.
*Best College Short Stories. Stratford Co.

_Shepherd, William Gunn._
*Scar That Tripled. Harper.

_Skinner, Ada M._, _and_ _Eleanor L._
Pearl Story Book. Duffield.
Turquoise Story Book. Duffield.

_Slaughter, Gertrude._
Two Children in Old Paris. Macmillan.

_Smith, Charlotte Curtis._
Old Cobblestone House. Rochester, N. Y. Craftsman Press.

_Steele, Wilbur Daniel._
*Land’s End and Other Stories. Harper.

_Steinberg, Judah._
*Breakfast of the Birds. Jewish Publication Soc. of Am.

_Taylor, Arthur Russell._
*Mr. Squem and Some Male Triangles. Doran.

_Thomas, Charles Swain_, _editor_.
*Atlantic Narratives, First Series. Atlantic Monthly Co.
*Atlantic Narratives, Second Series. Atlantic Monthly Co.

_Train, Arthur._
Mortmain. Scribner.

_Tweedy, Frank._
Discarded Confidante. Neale.

_Van Loan, Charles E._
Fore! Doran.

_Wagnalls, Mabel._
*Rose-Bush of a Thousand Years. Funk and Wagnalls.

_Wagner, Rob._
Film Folk. Century.

_Waldo, Nigel._
Wallflowers. Hannis Jordan Co.

_Wharton, Edith._
Marne. Appleton.

_White, Stewart Edward._
Simba. Doubleday, Page.

_Widdemer, Margaret._
You’re Only Young Once. Holt.

_Williams, Blanche Colton_, _editor_.
*Book of Short Stories. Appleton.

_Wolcott, Laura._
*Gray Dream. Yale Univ. Press.

_Wormser, C. Ranger._
*Scarecrows. Dutton.

II. _English and Irish Authors_

“_Ayscough, John._”
*Tideway. Benziger.

“_Bartimeus._”
*Long Trick. Doran.

_Bell, John Joy._
*Johnny Pryde. Revell.

_Blackwood, Algernon._
*Empty House. Dutton.
*John Silence. Dutton.
*Listener. Dutton.
*Lost Valley. Dutton.

_Brebner, Percy James._
Christopher Quarles. Dutton.

*_Buchan, John._
*Watcher by the Threshold. Doran.

_Burke, Thomas._
*Nights in London. Holt.

_Cable, Boyd._
Front Lines. Dutton.

“_Centurion._”
_See_ Morgan, Captain J. H.

_Copplestone, Bennet._
Lost Naval Papers. Dutton.

“_Dehan, Richard._”
*Under the Hermes. Dodd, Mead.

_Doyle, A. Conan._
*Danger. Doran.

_Dunsany, Lord._
*Book of Wonder. (Modern Library.) Boni and Liveright.
*Tales of War. Little, Brown.

_Empey, Arthur Guy._
Tales from a Dugout. Century.

_Evans, Caradoc._
*Capel Sion. Boni and Liveright.
*My Own People. Boni and Liveright.

_Galsworthy, John._
*Five Tales. Scribner.

_Graham, Stephen._
*Quest of the Face. Macmillan.

_Graves, Clotilde._
_See_ “Dehan, Richard.”

“_Hanshew, T. W._” (_Charlotte May Kingsley._)
Cleek, the Master Detective. Doubleday, Page.

_Harker, L. Allen._
*Children of the Dear Cotswolds. Scribner.

_Hodgson, William Hope._
Captain Gault. McBride.

_Jacks, L. P._
*Country Air. Holt.

_Kipling, Rudyard._
*Tales. Four Seas.

_Moore, George._
*Story-Teller’s Holiday. Boni and Liveright.

_Morgan, Captain J. H._ (“Centurion.”)
*Gentlemen at Arms. Doubleday, Page.

_Morrison, Arthur._
*Tales of Mean Streets. Goodman.

_Noyes, Alfred._
*Walking Shadows. Stokes.

_O’Kelly, Seumas._
*Waysiders. Stokes.

_Pearse, Padraic._
*Collected Works. Stokes.

_Pertwee, Roland._
Transactions of Lord Louis Lewis. Dodd, Mead.

_Phillpotts, Eden._
*Chronicles of St. Tid. Macmillan.

_Sabatini, Rafael._
*Historical Nights’ Entertainment. Lippincott.

“_Sapper._”
Human Touch. Doran.

_Sélincourt, Hugh de._
*Nine Tales. Dodd, Mead.

_Stockley, Cynthia._
*Blue Aloes. Putnam.

“_Trevena, John._”
*By Violence. Four Seas.

_Vachel, Horace Annesley._
*Some Happenings. Doran.

_Walker, Dugald Stewart._
Dream Boats. Doubleday, Page.

_Wilde, Oscar._
*Fairy Tales and Poems in Prose. Boni and Liveright.
*House of Pomegranates. Moffat, Yard.

_Yeats, W. B._, _editor_.
*Irish Fairy and Folk Tales. (Modern Library.) Boni and
Liveright.

“_Yeo._”
Soldier Men. Lane.

III. _Translations_

_Andreyev, Leonid Nikolaevich._ (_Russian._)
(_See also_ Modern Russian Classics.)
*Seven That Were Hanged, and The Red Laugh. (Modern Library.)
Boni and Liveright.

_Andreyev, Leonid Nikolaevich_, and _Bunin, Ivan Alexeivich_.
(_Russian._)
*Lazarus (by Andreieff) and The Gentleman from San Francisco (by
Bunin). Stratford Co.

_Artzibashev, Michael._ (_Russian._)
_See_ Modern Russian Classics.

_Balzac, Honoré de._ (_French._)
*Short Stories. (Modern Library.) Boni and Liveright.

_Barbusse, Henri._ (_French._)
*We Others. Dutton.

_Baŭdes, Joseph_, _editor_. (_Czech._)
*Czech Folk Tales. Macmillan.

_Boccaccio de Certaldo, Giovanni._ (_Italian._)
Tales from Boccaccio. Stratford.

_Bosschère, Jean de._ (_French._)
*Folk Tales of Flanders. Dodd, Mead.

_Bunin, Ivan Alexeivich._ (_Russian._)
_See_ Andreyev, Leonid Nikolaevich, _and_ Bunin, Ivan Alexeivich.

_Chekhov, Anton._ (_Russian._)
(_See also_ Modern Russian Classics.)
*Nine Humorous Tales. Stratford.
*Wife. Macmillan.
*Witch. Macmillan.

_Dantchenko, V. I. Nemirovitch-._ (_Russian._)
*Peasant Tales of Russia. McBride.

_Dostoevskii, Fyodor Mikhailovich._ (_Russian._)
*White Nights. Macmillan.

_Friedlander, Gerald_, _translator_. (_Yiddish._)
Jewish Fairy Stories. Bloch.

_Gogol, Nikolai Vassilyevitch._ (_Russian._)
*Taras Bulba. Dutton.

_Goldberg, Isaac_, _editor_. (_Portuguese._)
*Brazilian Tales. Four Seas.

_Gorky, Maxim._ (_Russian._)
(_See also_ Modern Russian Classics.)
*Creatures That Once Were Men. Boni and Liveright.
*Stories of the Steppe. Stratford.

_Latzko, Andreas._ (_German._)
*Men in War. Boni and Liveright.

_McPherson, William_, _editor_. (_French._)
*Tales of Wartime France. Dodd, Mead.

_Maupassant, Guy de._ (_French._)
*Mademoiselle Fifi. Four Seas.
*Selected Short Stories. Current Literature Pub. Co.

_Mendés, Catulle._ (_French._)
*Fairy Spinning Wheel. Four Seas.

_Mijatovich, Elodie L._, _translator_. (_Serbian._)
*Serbian Fairy Tales. McBride.

*_Modern Russian Classics._ (_Russian._) (Stories by Andreyev, Sologub, Gorky, Chekhov, and Artzibashev.) Four Seas.

_Nemirovitch-dantchenko, V. I._ (_Russian._)
_See_ _Dantchenko, V. I. Nemirovitch-._

_Schweikert, Harry C._, _editor_. (_French._)
*French Short Stories. Scott, Foresman.

_Segovia, Gertrudis._ (_Spanish._)
*Spanish Fairy Book. Stokes.

“_Sologub, Feodor._” (_Feodor Kuzmitch Teternikov._) (_Russian._)
_See_ Modern Russian Classics.

_Tagore, Sir Rabindranath._ (_Bengali._)
*Mashi, and Other Stories. Macmillan.

_Taketomo, Torao_, _editor_. (_Japanese._)
*Paulownia. Duffield.

_Tchekhov, Anton._ (_Russian._)
_See_ Chekhov, Anton.

_Tolstoy, Lyof._ (_Russian._)
*Death of Ivan Ilyitch, and Other Stories. Boni and Liveright.
*What Men Live By. Stratford.

_Underwood, Edna Worthley._
*Famous Stories from Foreign Countries. Four Seas.

THE BEST SIXTY AMERICAN SHORT STORIES

JANUARY TO OCTOBER, 1918: A CRITICAL SUMMARY

_The sixty short stories published in the American magazines between January and October, 1918, which I shall discuss in this article are chosen from a larger group of about one hundred and twenty stories, whose literary excellence justifies me in including them in my annual “Roll of Honor.” The stories which are included in this Roll of Honor have been chosen from the stories published in seventy-four American periodicals during the first ten months of 1918. In selecting them I have sought to accept the author’s point of view and manner of treatment, and to measure simply his degree of success in accomplishing what he set out to achieve. I have permitted no personal preference or prejudice to influence my mind consciously for or against a story. But I must confess that it has been difficult to eliminate personal admiration completely in the further winnowing which has resulted in this selection of sixty stories. Below are set forth the particular qualities which have seemed to me to justify in each case the inclusion of a story in this list._

1. _A Simple Act of Piety_, by _Achmed Abdullah_ (The All-Story Weekly). To those who enjoyed last year Thomas Burke’s “Limehouse Nights,” the series of Pell Street stories which Captain Abdullah is publishing in the Century Magazine, Collier’s Weekly, and the All-Story Weekly will be welcome. To a vivid sense of color and an economy of dramatic situation, “A Simple Act of Piety,” which is the best of these stories, adds a fine appreciation of the Oriental point of view. The characterization is almost subjective it is so real, and the story is a fine crystallization of the poetry inherent in New York Chinatown life.

2. _The Man of Ideas_, by _Sherwood Anderson_ (Little Review), points the way to a new American realism. Those who have read Mr. Anderson’s other Winesburg stories in the Seven Arts and the Little Review will remember that he has set himself the task of portraying the spiritual values of a small Ohio community without sentimentality. These stories suggest the Spoon River Anthology, and indeed the tradition inaugurated by Edgar Lee Masters, Sherwood Anderson, and other realists of the new Chicago School seems likely to carry on the vision of Walt Whitman to new goals of achievement.

3. _Cruelties_ (Harper’s Magazine) and 4. “_Goddess Size_” (Harper’s Magazine), by _Edwina Stanton Babcock_. When Miss Babcock published “The Excursion” last year in the Pictorial Review, I expressed my belief that it was one of the best five American short stories of the year. I regard these two stories as marking a significant advance in Miss Babcock’s art. Her characterization of these Nantucket folks has a subtle humor and poetry linked to a faithful realism. Miss Babcock continues to prove herself a leader in short-story regionalism. “Cruelties” is very quietly done and no point is over-stressed. In fact I find a greater reticence in these stories than in Miss Babcock’s earlier work, and this is all to the good.

5. _The Bell-Tower of P’An-Ku_, by “_John Brangwyn_” (Century Magazine). This story by an American novelist, whose name is not to be revealed, comes with a definite message to Americans from China. It is an allegory quietly setting forth the essence of the imaginative attitude toward life. Like a shifting tapestry, pictures weave to and fro, and the way is opened to us to see the vision that the unknown Chinese master saw.

6. _Buster_, by _Katharine Holland Brown_ (Scribner’s Magazine). Here in clear swift portraiture Miss Brown has caught the spirit of America, youthful and eager, living dangerously and happily, and prepared to face danger, and, if necessary, seek it. “Buster” is a study of the typical young American who finds himself at last as an aviator in France. No story could better interpret our spirit to the English and French imagination.

7. _The Sorry Tale of Hennery K. Lunk_, by _Ellis Parker Butler_ (Harper’s Magazine). This tale of a mournful mariner ashore on the banks of the Mississippi would have delighted Mark Twain. I hope Mr. Butler will forgive me if I state that it contains more poetry than prose. But after all, mournful mariners come and go, while their stories go on forever.

8. _The Black Pearl_, by _Katharine Butler_ (Atlantic Monthly). This story, redolent of the East, is an admirable study in atmosphere. It has all the nostalgia of a half-forgotten dream, and yet it is so confidently set forth that we may enter its background without difficulty. Style is not a common quality, I regret to say, in American short stories, but the picture portrayed in “The Black Pearl” is well nigh flawless.

9. _Some Ladies and Jurgen_, by _James Branch Cabell_ (Smart Set), is a wilful apologue of poets and their wives which will delight the thoughtful while disappointing the serious. It is really a prose poem without any moral whatever, unless perhaps the moral Miss Guiney once pointed out when she said that tall talk always reminded her of the Himalayas. I commend the fable to all would-be poets.

10. _The Gallowsmith_, by _Irvin S. Cobb_ (All-Story Weekly). This story, which marks a great departure from Mr. Cobb’s usual vein, is one of the most grim stories an American magazine has ever published, but it is a masterly portrait of a professional hangman which the reader cannot easily forget. With vivid completeness of detail, and characterization which is admirably suggestive, Mr. Cobb manages the situation in such a way that its conclusion is inevitable, yet unexpected.

11. _The Open Window_, by _Charles Caldwell Dobie_ (Harper’s Magazine), is a sequel to “Laughter,” which I published last year as one of the best short stories of 1917. Unlike most sequels, it is perhaps better than its predecessor, and the mastery of his art which Mr. Dobie shows only serves to confirm my prediction of two years ago, that in Mr. Dobie America would find before long one of its four or five best short-story writers. An adventurous publisher, anxious to issue the best that is being written in American fiction, cannot afford to neglect Mr. Dobie.

12. _The Emerald of Tamerlane_, by _H. G. Dwight and John Taylor_ (Century Magazine). Every discriminating reader knows H. G. Dwight’s book of short stories entitled “Stamboul Nights,” and admires its quality of romantic mystery and poetic description. “The Emerald of Tamerlane” admirably sustains Mr. Dwight’s reputation for vivid realization of Persian life.

13. _Blind Vision_, by _Mary Mitchell Freedley_ (Century Magazine). This story, by S. Weir Mitchell’s granddaughter, marks not only Mrs. Freedley’s first appearance in print, but the arrival of a remarkable new talent. It is a study of an American aviator and a spiritual problem that he had to decide, and is set down with exceptional artistic economy.

14. _The Irish of It_, by _Cornelia Throop Geer_ (Atlantic Monthly). This little study, which is hardly more than a dialogue, is inimitable in its deft humorous characterization. It is good news to be able to report that Miss Geer is planning a volume of stories about these Irish boys and girls whose poetry of thought and action is so coaxing.

15. _Imagination_, by _Gordon Hall Gerould_ (Scribner’s Magazine). Captain Gerould has taken his subject quietly and handled it with a thoughtful sense of its possibilities. This study of a successful writer of best sellers, with his egregious solemnity and lack of imagination, is delightfully rendered. The subtlety of the author’s psychology will not blind the reader to its essential truth.

16. _Marchpane_, by _Katharine Fullerton Gerould_ (Harper’s Magazine). Mrs. Gerould has only published one short story this year, but fortunately it ranks among her best. It is written with all her usual close observation of abnormal psychological situations. The art of few stories is concealed so successfully, and the story is one of which Henry James would have been proud.

17. _In Maulmain Fever-Ward_, by _George Gilbert_. This story, which appeared in a Chicago magazine, is the first of an unusual series of stories dealing with East Indian life. It is full of a wild poetry of speech and action, set against a background of almost oppressive natural beauty. I think that the story would have gained by a little more reticence, but the groundwork is firm and the detail admirably rendered.

18. “_Beloved Husband_” (Harper’s Magazine) and 19. “_Poor Ed_” (The Liberator), by _Susan Glaspell_. Susan Glaspell has already won a high reputation in three equally difficult fields, those of the novel, the drama, and the short story. Considering her as a short-story writer only, we may say that these two stories reflect the best that she has done, with the possible exception of the story entitled “A Jury of Her Peers,” which I reprinted in “The Best Short Stories of 1917.” Both are studies in suppressed ambition, set forth with a gentle humor which does not fail by virtue of overstress. Susan Glaspell is at her best in “Poor Ed,” a study in the triumph of failure.

20. _Sinjinn Surviving_, by _Armistead C. Gordon_ (Harper’s Magazine). This story is one more addition to Mr. Gordon’s studies of Virginia negro plantation life. It introduces us once more to Ommirandy and Uncle Jonas, and is a quiet idyl of the life that survived in Virginia after the fall of the Confederacy.

21. _Even So_, by _Charles Boardman Hawes_ (The Bellman). The art of Mr. Hawes has developed so quietly during the past few years that it has not attracted the attention it richly deserves. This study of life and death many years ago in the Southern Seas recaptures much of the magic of the old sailing-ship days when the _Helen of Troy_ and other American clippers came bravely into port. The story has a fine legendary quality.

22. _Decay_, by _Ben Hecht_ (Little Review). When Mr. Hecht published “Life” in the Little Review some few years ago I predicted that the future would reveal the fulfilment of his remarkable promise, although I was not quite sure whether Mr. Hecht would find himself most fully in the short story or in the novel. During these years his output has been small but distinguished, and the present study of Chicago life shows a marked advance in technique. Nevertheless I now think that the novel is Mr. Hecht’s natural vehicle, and that when his first novel appears it will create a profound literary impression.

23. _Their War_, by _Hetty Hemenway_ (Atlantic Monthly). When Miss Hemenway published “Four Days” in the Atlantic Monthly last year, it created more discussion than any other war story of the year. Her new story, which is in as quiet a key, represents an advance in her art, and the two stories taken together represent one of the few important contributions America has made to the imaginative literature of the war. The war has taught us that youth is old enough, under the stress of events, to speak for itself, and there is a brave frankness about Mrs. Richard’s exposition of this truth which brings it home to all.

24. _At the Back of God Speed_, by _Rupert Hughes_ (Hearst’s Magazine). Three years ago Mr. Hughes published in the Metropolitan Magazine two stories which were as fine in their way as the best of Irvin Cobb’s humorous stories. In “Michaeleen! Michaelawn!” and “Sent for Out” Mr. Hughes depicted with his wonted kindliness and pathos the first generation of successful Irish immigrants. “At the Back of God Speed” now completes the series, which form as a whole the most faithful portrait yet drawn of the Americanized Irishman.

25. _The Father’s Hand_, by _George Humphrey_ (The Bookman). Although Mr. Humphrey was born in England he has now definitely adopted us and I suppose we may claim him as an American writer. This brief and touching study of one minor incident in the Great War shows a fine sense of human values, whose artistic effect is enhanced by deliberate understatement.

26. _Her’s_ _NOT_ _to Reason Why_, by _Fannie Hurst_ (Cosmopolitan). This story was published in 1917, when it unaccountably failed to attract my attention, and as an act of prosaic justice I now chronicle it, because I believe it to be the best story Miss Hurst has yet published. The temptation to oversentimentalize the theme must have been almost irresistible, but the author has not failed in reticence and this study of a certain aspect of New York life will not be soon forgotten.

27. _The Little Family_ (Harper’s Magazine) and 28. _The Visit of the Master_ (Harper’s Magazine), by _Arthur Johnson_. These stories have nothing in common except the fact that they reinforce Mr. Johnson’s claim this year to rank with Mrs. Gerould, Wilbur Daniel Steele, H. G. Dwight, and Charles Caldwell Dobie as one of the most finished artists in America to-day. “The Visit of the Master” is an altogether delightful social comedy, not without a moral. “The Little Family,” on the other hand, is a poignant study of the effect of war on the gentle imaginations of two lonely men. Its quality makes us think of the relation between Stevenson and his old nurse, and stylistically it is admirable. I suggest with all diffidence, and from a point of view of frank personal preference that it is very possibly the best short story of the year.

29. _In the Open Code_, by _Burton Kline_ (The Stratford Journal). This brief tale in sharp outline recounts a single human incident. Romantic in treatment, it is told with the eye on the object. It is a finished piece of workmanship.

30. _The Willow Walk_, by _Sinclair Lewis_ (Saturday Evening Post). It was an interesting problem which presented itself to Mr. Lewis when he thought of writing this story. Could a criminal of marked intellectual ability create a dual personality for himself by inventing an imaginary brother, give up his own personality after his crime, and live on undetected in the continuous imaginative realization of his new personality? Mr. Lewis has studied the psychological effects of such a successful impersonation and shown the destructive force of mental suggestion on the soul, in a manner which is in interesting contrast to that employed by Charles Caldwell Dobie in the story which I have mentioned above.

31. _The Haymakers_ (Stratford Journal) and 32. _Old Lady Hudson_ (The Midland), by _Jeannette Marks_. These two allegorical stories are written in what is usually a most hazardous literary form. I think that Miss Marks has steered clear of Scylla and Charybdis successfully, and pointed out to a somewhat deaf world the imaginative realities which underlie the commercial crust of our American civilization. These stories, and others of similar tenor, are to be published shortly in a volume entitled “Forgotten Sins.”

33. _Nettle and Foxglove_, by _Marjory Morten_ (Century Magazine). This is a study in conflicting temperaments which is very gently rendered with an art that recalls in its subtlety that of Miss Ethel Sidgwick’s novels. A collection of Mrs. Morten’s studies, reprinted from the files of the Century Magazine, would make an interesting volume.

34. _The Story Vinton Heard at Mallorie_, by _Katharine Prescott Moseley_ (Scribner’s Magazine). Miss Moseley, who is a niece of Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford, shares with Mrs. Frances G. Wood the distinction of having contributed one of the two most enduring legends this year to the supernatural literature of the war. One of the most significant aspects of the American short story during the past two years has been its increasing preoccupation with supernatural beliefs, especially as they have a bearing on the fortunes of the war. Arthur Machen perhaps inaugurated this movement with his remarkable story about the angels of Mons, but the spirit was implicit before that in much American work. In editing a series of War Echoes for The Bookman last year, I had occasion to read the manuscripts of several hundred war stories, and it was a gratifying surprise to find that fully sixty per cent of these stories dealt with some supernatural aspect of the war.

35. _Clouds_, by _Walter L. Myers_ (The Midland). This remarkable study of place is one of the best stories so far produced in the literary revival throughout the Middle West which centres around the nucleus of The Midland. I wish that The Midland would publish a volume of stories selected from its columns during the last three years. Such a book would quickly earn a permanent place on our shelves.

36. _Owen Carey_, by _Harvey J. O’Higgins_ (The Century Magazine). I believe this story to be the most distinguished in the series of imaginary American portraits that Mr. O’Higgins has been publishing during the past two years. These studies aim to take as a starting point the lives of men and women successful in many different fields, and to depict in each case the thing which may have seemed perfectly trivial at the time, but which actually proved to be the turning point in their careers. It is such an incident in the life of a successful romantic novelist which Mr. O’Higgins portrays in this story.

37. _The Second-Rater_, by _James Oppenheim_ (Century Magazine). In this brilliant study of artistic temperament, Mr. Oppenheim portrays the spiritual struggle of an artist in such a way as to reveal the finer grain. The author has been clearly influenced by Henry James, but the texture of his story is a little loosely woven.

38. _Unto Each His Crown_, by _Norma Patterson_ (The Bookman). This nervously written study of death in battle and the discovery it awakened is the work of a new writer who should have a brilliant future if my judgment does not betray me. Like Miss Moseley’s story, it is a study in the supernatural implications of the war. There is a proud joy in it which the reader will find infectious.

39. _His Escape_, by _Will Payne_ (Saturday Evening Post). I regard this as the best newspaper story published in America since “The Stolen Story.” It has quick dramatic action, well stressed conflict, clean-cut characterization, and a thoroughly adequate conclusion. If the style is somewhat staccato, this is perhaps in harmony with the character of the story.

40. _The Toast to Forty-Five_, by _William Dudley Pelley_ (Pictorial Review). Mr. Pelley has “the human touch.” His stories of Paris, Vermont, have a homely quality which never over-stresses the emotional values, even when it almost seems as if the author were going to sentimentalize them. No work could be more indigenous to the soil. Its very roughnesses are a product of environment. Though Mr. Pelley as yet entirely lacks style, there is a driving force within him which should finally shape a personal style in much the same manner as may be observed in the evolution of Irvin S. Cobb’s best work.

41. _The Poet_, by _Lawrence Perry_ (Harper’s Magazine). This story is a study in courage similar in quality to “A Certain Rich Man,” which I published last year in “The Best Short Stories of 1917.” It is very deliberately built up as a literary problem, but with unquestionable artistic sincerity. It would have been easy to key this story too tightly from an emotional point of view, but Mr. Perry’s feeling in the matter has been sure.

42. _Green Umbrellas_, by _Lucy Pratt_ (Pictorial Review). Symbolism is woven into this story as modestly as in “The Sun Chaser” by Jeannette Marks, which appeared in the same magazine during 1916. Miss Pratt has abandoned her negro character stories for the time being, and written about a little boy who brings his parents together. It is slightly sentimentalized, but this is a weakness which the other excellent qualities of the story largely neutralize.

43. _David and Jonathan_, by _Mary Brecht Pulver_ (Mother’s Magazine). This idyl of boyhood friendship, which may not have come to the attention of many readers, has interested me as much as Roland Pertwee’s notable study of adolescence, entitled “Red and White.” It is a study in loyalties seen from a boy’s point of view, mirroring as it does later, if no firmer, loyalties of men and women.

44. _The Sixth Man_, by _George Palmer Putnam_ (Ladies’ Home Journal). It is claimed by the author of this story that it is based on fact. Whether this is so or not, it is an interesting study of a possible historical situation woven around the death of Edith Cavell. It seems to me a made story rather than a told story, but granting this weakness which has not been sufficiently covered, it is noteworthy in its way.

45. _Extra Men_, by _Harrison Rhodes_ (Harper’s Magazine). This story is an instance of atmosphere perfectly realized in brief compass. But it is more than that. It is a new legend for American literature fairly comparable to Irving’s “Rip Van Winkle” and Hawthorne’s “The Gray Champion,” in its portraiture of Washington and all the armies of the American dead sailing for France with the American troopships in the morning.

46. _Daffodils_, by _Anne Douglas Sedgwick_ (Atlantic Monthly). Of the series of stories based on the symbolism of flowers which Mrs. de Sélincourt has contributed during the past few years to American magazines, “Daffodils” is probably the best. Full of the spirit of young England and the many thousand youths mown in Flanders like a field of daffodils in glad surrender, this story reflects the spiritual analogies of the flower in the human heart. It is the same spirit of eternal English youth which is reflected in Rupert Brooke’s last sonnets.

47. _Release_, by _Elsie Singmaster_ (Pictorial Review). One more memory of Lincoln, uniting the tradition of the Civil War with the tradition of the present war, is evoked by Elsie Singmaster in this story. There is very little action in “Release” of a physical kind, but the spiritual values are dynamic, and the story is told with a processional dignity attained in other stories only by this author.

48. _The Return_, by _Gordon Arthur Smith_ (Scribner’s Magazine). From the romantic fortunes of Ferdinand Taillandy, Mr. Smith has turned to a poignant study of French war life. With great reticence and gentleness he has idealized the return of a soldier home to his greatest desire, and so added one more to the notable chronicles of supernatural life which the war has evoked from American artists.

49. _Solitaire_, by _Fleta Campbell Springer_ (Harper’s Magazine). I regard this as one of the two best short stories of the year, though in saying so I wish to put forward no more than a personal judgment. The character whom Mrs. Springer has created is unlike any other in American fiction, and yet, in his modesty, efficiency, and sensitiveness, a most natural American individual. There are many different passions for perfection among men, most of them secret, and of these I think that the passion of Corey is not the least noble.

50. _The Dark Hour_ (Atlantic Monthly), 51. _A Taste of the Old Boy_ (Collier’s Weekly), and 52. _The Wages of Sin_ (Pictorial Review), by _Wilbur Daniel Steele_. Once more it is necessary to affirm that Wilbur Daniel Steele shares with Mrs. Katharine Fullerton Gerould the distinction of first place among contemporary American short-story artists. I still think that “Ching, Ching, Chinaman” is the best short story that Mr. Steele has yet written, and that its only close rival is “A White Horse Winter,” but “The Dark Hour” I should place third in an anthology of Mr. Steele’s stories, and first in an anthology of American war stories. In its message to the American people it yields in significance only to the best of President Wilson’s state papers, and serves to crystallize the issue before the country in this war as unforgetably as William Vaughn Moody crystallized the war issue less than twenty years ago in his “Ode in Time of Hesitation,” also published in the Atlantic Monthly. In the light of present events, Mr. Steele’s message has only increased in significance. Of the two other stories, “The Wages of Sin” takes its rightful place with the other Urkey Island stories which I have discussed in the past. “A Taste of the Old Boy” is one more war legend for our anthology.

53. _The Bird of Serbia_, by _Julian Street_ (Collier’s Weekly). Repeatedly in the course of this article I have had occasion to point out that the best of the year’s war stories are creating new legends. How a bird in a cage in a little Serbian village may have been the cause of the Great War is persuasively set forth by Mr. Street in this story. The conclusion is one of the best examples of a justifiable surprise ending that I know of, and the human quality of Mr. Street’s characterization renders its inherent improbability psychologically convincing.

54. _The Three Zoölogical Wishes_, by _Booth Tarkington_ (Collier’s Weekly). This is the most amusing study of adolescence that Mr. Tarkington has given us. It has countless subtle touches of observation which quietly build up two remarkably accurate portraits. I regard it as the best of the new series which Mr. Tarkington has been publishing in Collier’s Weekly.

55. _Five Rungs Gone_, by _Albert W. Tolman_ (Youth’s Companion). For many years the most interesting weekly feature of the Youth’s Companion has been the danger story in which the youthful hero escapes from extraordinary peril by virtue of courage and great intellectual ingenuity. Most of these stories are built on a regular formula and cannot claim much literary value. But now and then a situation is so vividly realized, and the situation so logically deduced, that the story has literary justification. And “Five Rungs Gone” is altogether exceptional in this respect.

56. _At Isham’s_, by _Edward C. Venable_ (Scribner’s Magazine). The zest of this story consists in the intellectual subtlety of mental conflict. It contrasts the characters of several _habitués_ of a New York café who form a little group each night for endless discussion. The value of the story rests in the manner in which events bring out variations in character, and the solution of the story is as absorbing as a chess problem.

57. _De Vilmarte’s Luck_ (Harper’s Magazine) and 58. _Huntington’s Credit_ (Harper’s Magazine), by _Mary Heaton Vorse_. In these two stories there is a marked contrast of subject matter. “De Vilmarte’s Luck” is a study of the artistic temperament, with fine ironies keenly portrayed. The war provides the story with a solution which reveals the finer grain. In “Huntington’s Credit” we have a study in suppressed desires, very quietly told, with a poignancy softened somehow by the quality of character. In these two stories Mary Heaton Vorse has given us the best work written by her in the last four years.

59. _The White Battalion_, by _Frances Gilchrist Wood_ (The Bookman). Here is the last of the fine supernatural legends inspired during the past year by the Great War. The White Battalion of the dead which fights on the side of the Allies is comparable to the marching host seen by Harrison Rhodes in “Extra Men,” but there is an _élan_ in this story which suggests a deeper spiritual background.

60. _In the House of Morphy_, by _John Seymour Wood_ (Scribner’s Magazine). This legend of old New Orleans has the romantic glow of Mr. Cable’s best novels linked to a well-developed plot with a fine quality of logical surprise. It is one of the best stories written by a fastidious artist of the old school who appears seldom in our magazines, and always with the finest substance that he can give.

ARTICLES ON THE SHORT STORY, JANUARY TO OCTOBER, 1918

_The following abbreviations are used in this index:—_

_Atl._ .....................Atlantic Monthly
_Bel._ .....................Bellman
_B. E. T._ ................Boston Evening Transcript
_Bk. News Mo._ ........Book News Monthly
_Book._ ...............Bookman
_Cen._ ................Century Magazine
_C. O._ ...............Current Opinion
_Cos._ ................Cosmopolitan
_F. A. Suppl._ ........Fine Arts Supplement
_For._ ................Forum
_Lit. R._ .............Little Review
_Liv. Age_ ............Living Age
_Mir._ ................Reedy’s Mirror
_N. A. Rev._ ..........North American Review
_N. Rep._ .............New Republic
_Outl. (London)_ ......London Outlook
_So. Atl. Quart._ .....South Atlantic Quarterly
_Strat. J._ ...........Stratford Journal
_Yale R._ .............Yale Review
_(161)_ ...............Page 161
_(11:161)_ ............Volume 11, page 161

American Short Stories of 1917, The Best Sixty-Three.
By Edward J. O’Brien. Book. Feb. (46:696.)

American Short Story.
By William Stanley Braithwaite. B. E. T. May 15. (pt. 2. p. 6.)

_Anonymous._
Short Story Art and the Magazines. Strat. J. July-Aug. (78.)

Artzibashev, Michael.
_See_ Russian Revolutions and Literature.

Asch, Sholom.
_See_ Yiddish Writers.

_Ashmun, Margaret._
Ivan Turgenev. B. E. T. Oct. 19. (pt. 3. p. 4.)

_Beaucrispin, Raoul de._
Edgar Allan Poe. Bk. News Mo. April. (36:281.)

_Belshaw, Alexander._
Review of Moore’s “A Story Teller’s Holiday.” Chicago Daily News.
Aug. 21.

Bennett’s Books, Arnold.
By Randolph Edgar. Bel. July 13. (25:48.)

_Bergengren, Ralph._
Review of Morley’s “Shandygaff.” B. E. T. June 12. (pt. 2. p. 6.)

Best Short Stories of 1917.
By Edward J. O’Brien. B. E. T. Jan. 19. (pt 3. p. 5.)

Best Sixty-Three American Short Stories of 1917.
By Edward J. O’Brien. Book. Feb. (46:696.)

Bierce, Ambrose.
C. O. Sept. (65:184.)

Bierce, Ambrose: America’s Neglected Satirist.
By Wilson Follett. Dial. July 18. (65:49.)

Bierce, Ambrose: A Rejected Guest.
By Louise Gebhard Cann. Strat. J. June. (38.)

_Bourne, Randolph._
Review of Latzko’s “Men in War.” Dial. May 23. (64:486.)

_Boynton, H. W._
Told and Made. (Reviews of Short-Story Collections.) Nation.
April 4. (106:394.)

_Bradley, William Aspenwall._
“A Queer Fellow.” (Booth Tarkington.) Dial. March 28. (64:297.)

_Braithwaite, William Stanley._
American Short Story. B. E. T. May 15. (pt. 2. p. 6.)

_Brégy, Katherine._
Lord Dunsany. America. June 15. (19:241.)

_Brooks, Van Wyck._
On Creating a Usable Past. Dial. April 11. (64:337.)

Brown, Alice.
Reviews of “The Flying Teuton.” Nation. May 11. (106:575.) By
Dorothea Lawrance Mann. B. E. T. July 10. (pt. 2. p. 6.)

Burgess, Gelett (The Irritating Mr. Burgess.)
By Vincent Starrett. Mir. Oct. 11. (27:511.)

Burt, Maxwell Struthers.
_See_ Tricks and Inventions.

_Burton, Richard._
A Debauch of O. Henry. Bel. Jan. 26. (24:93.)

Cabell, James Branch.
By Wilson Follett. Dial. April 25. (64:392.)
By Ben Hecht. Chicago Daily News. April 10.
By Vincent Starrett. Chicago Herald and Examiner. F. A. Suppl.
May 11. (I.)

_Canby, Henry Seidel._
On a Certain Condescension Toward Fiction. Cen. Feb. (95:549.)
Sentimental America. Atl. April. (121:500.)

_Cann, Louise Gebhard._
Ambrose Bierce: A Rejected Guest. Strat. J. June. (38.)

Chambers, Art of Robert W.
By Rupert Hughes. Cos. June. (80.)

Chekhov, Anton.
By Louis S. Friedland. Dial. Jan. 3. (64:27.)
By George Rapall Noyes. Nation. Oct 12. (107:406.)
_See also_ Russian Revolutions and Literature.

_Colum, Padraic._
Conquistadore. (R. B. Cunninghame-Graham.) N. Rep. July 6.
(15:296.)
Irishry. (With review of Pearse’s “Collected Works.”) Nation.
Sept. 21. (107:317.)

Conrad, Joseph.
By J. M. Robertson. N. A. Rev. Sept (208:439.)
By Arthur L. Salmon. Bk. News Mo. Aug. (36:442.)

Cunninghame-Graham, R. B.
By Padraic Colum. N. Rep. July 6. (15:296.)
By Amy Wellington. Book. April. (47:155.)

Davis, Richard Harding.
By Francis Hackett. N. Rep. March 2. (14:149.)

Dostoevsky, Fedor.
_See_ Russian Revolutions and Literature.

Doyle, A. Conan.
_See_ Starrett, Vincent.

Dreiser, Theodore.
Review of “Free.” By Edwin F. Edgett. B. E. T. Aug. 28. (pt. 2.
p. 6.)

Dunsany, Lord.
By Katherine Brégy. America. June 15. (19:241.)

_Eaton, Walter Prichard._
Diogenes in Search of a “Hero.” B. E. T. Oct. 16. (pt 2. p. 4.)

_Edgar, Randolph._
Arnold Bennett’s Books. Bel. July 13. (25:48.)

_Edgett, Edwin F._
Review of Dreiser’s “Free.” B. E. T. Aug. 28. (pt 2. p. 6.)
Review of Ferber’s “Cheerful—By Request.” B. E. T. Sept 14. (pt
3. p. 6.)
Review of Galsworthy’s “Five Tales.” B. E. T. April 10. (pt. 2.
p. 8.)
Review of Harris’s “Life of Joel Chandler Harris.” B. E. T. Sept
18. (pt. 2. p. 6.)
Review of Harris’s “Uncle Remus Returns.” B. E. T. Aug. 21. (pt
2. p. 6.)
Review of Hergesheimer’s “Gold and Iron.” B. E. T. May 15. (pt 2.
p. 6.)

Editor’s Way, In the.
By Isaac Goldberg. B. E. T. Feb. 16. (pt 3. p. 5.)

Farrère, Claude.
_See_ French Literature During the War and After.

Ferber, Edna.
Review of “Cheerful—By Request,” by Edwin F. Edgett. B. E. T.
Sept. 14. (pt 3. p. 6.)

_Follett, Wilson._
America’s Neglected Satirist. (Ambrose Bierce.) Dial. July 18.
(65:49.)
Gossip on James Branch Cabell. Dial. April 25. (64:392.) Humanism
and Fiction. Atl. Oct. (122:503.)

French Literature During the War and After (with Notices of Farrère and Mille). By Theodore Stanton. Strat. J. (2:40.)

_Friedland, Louis S._
Anton Chekhov. Dial. Jan. 3. (64:27.)

Galsworthy, John.
Reviews of “Five Tales.” London Nation. Sept 28. (23:692.)
By A. C. N. N. Rep. Aug. 10. (16:53.)
By E. F. Edgett. B. E. T. April 10. (pt 2. p. 8.)
By Frank Swinnerton. Outl. (London.) Aug. 10. (42:131.)

_Garnett, Edward._
Edward Thomas. Dial. Feb. 14. (64:135.)

_Gerould, Katharine Fullerton._
War Novels [and Short Stories]. Yale R. Oct. (8:159.)

_Goldberg, Isaac._
East Side Unearths a Dickens. (H. Gutman.) B. E. T. Sept 11. (pt.
2. p. 5.)
In the Editor’s Way. B. E. T. Feb. 16. (pt. 3. p. 5.)
New York’s Yiddish Writers. (Pinski, Asch, Raisin, Libin,
Kobrin.) Book. Feb. (46:684.)
Pinski, Maeterlinck of America. B. E. T. July 17. (pt. 2. p. 4.)
Tales from the Yiddish. (Leon Kobrin.) B. E. T. Aug. 14. (pt. 2.
p. 6.)
Touching on the Impersonal. B. E. T. Aug. 21. (pt 2. p. 4.)

Grim Thirteen, The. (_Review._)
By Louis Untermeyer. Dial. Jan. 17. (64:70.)

Gutman, H. (East Side Unearths a Dickens.)
By Isaac Goldberg. B. E. T. Sept 11. (pt. 2. p. 5.)

_Hackett, Francis._
Richard Harding Davis. N. Rep. March 2. (14:149.)

_Harman, H. E._
Joel Chandler Harris: The Prose Poet of the South. So. Atl.
Quart. July. (17:243.)

Harris, Joel Chandler.
Joel Chandler Harris. By H. E. Harman. So. Atl. Quart. July.
(17:243.)
Review of His “Life and Letters.” By E. F. Edgett. B. E. T. Sept.
18. (pt. 2. p. 6.)
Review of “Uncle Remus Returns.” By E. F. Edgett. B. E. T. Aug.
21. (pt. 2. p. 6.)

_Hecht, Ben._
Concerning James Branch Cabell. Chicago Daily News. April 10.

“Henry, O.”
By C. Alphonso Smith. Nation. May 11. (106:567.)
By Richard Burton. Bel. Jan. 26. (24:93.)
Letters of “O. Henry.” By G. H. Sargent B. E. T. April 27. (pt.
3. p. 4.)

_Hergesheimer, Joseph._
Some Veracious Paragraphs. Book. Sept. (48:8.)

Hergesheimer, Joseph. Review of “Gold and Iron.”
By Edwin F. Edgett B. E. T. May 15. (pt. 2. p. 6.)

_Hughes, Rupert._
Art of Robert W. Chambers. Cos. June. (80.)

Hughes, Interview with Rupert.
By “Pendennis.” For. Jan. (59:77.)

Humanism and Fiction.
By Wilson Follett Atl. Oct. (122:503.)

Hurst, Fannie: Genius of the Short Story.
By Kathleen Norris. Cos. Sept (93.)

_Hutchings, Emily Grant._
Review of Tagore’s “Mashi.” Mir. Oct 4. (27:500.)

Irishry. (With review of Pearse’s “Collected Works.”)
By Padraic Colum. Nation. Sept. 21. (107:317.)

Is American Life Divorced from American Literature?
C. O. March. (64:206.)

James, Henry.
Articles by. Ethel Colburn Mayne, Ezra Pound, A. R. Orage, T. S.
Eliot, John Rodker, and Theodora Bosanquet. Lit. R. Aug.
(pp. 1-64.) Sept. (pp. 50-53.)
By Francis X. Talbot, S. J. America. Oct 12. (20:19.)

Joyce, James.
By Scofield Thayer. Dial. Sept. 19. (65:201.)

_Kadison, Alexander._
Ovid as a Short-Story Writer in the Light of Modern Technique.
Poet-Lore. March-April. (29:206.)

Kipling Anatomized. (Review of Hart’s “Kipling the Story Writer.”) Nation. Sept. 28. (107:350.)

Kobrin, Leon. (Tales from the Yiddish.)
By Isaac Goldberg. B. E. T. Aug. 14. (pt. 2. p. 6.)
_See also_ Yiddish Writers.

_Lansing, Ruth._
Robert Louis Stevenson’s French Reading As Shown in His
Correspondence. Poet-Lore. March-April (29:218.)

Latzko, Andreas. “Men in War.”
Review by Randolph Bourne. Dial. May 23. (64:486.)

Lemaitre, Jules.
By Desmond MacCarthy. New Statesman. April 27. (11:71.)

Libin, Zalmon.
_See_ Yiddish Writers.

_Lighton, William R._
Something Rotten in the State of Fiction. B. E. T. Aug. 14. (pt.
2. p. 5.)

Lincoln, Joseph C.
By Reed, Charles Francis. For. Feb. (59:219.)

Lyons, A. Neil.
By Constance Mayfield Rourke. N. Rep. June 8. (15:180.)

_MacCarthy, Desmond._
Jules Lemaitre. New Statesman. April 27. (11:71.)

_McIntire, Ruth._
Imperturbable Artist. (Leonard Merrick.) Dial. June 6. (64:527.)

_Mann, Dorothea Lawrance._
Review of Brown’s “The Flying Teuton.” B. E. T. July 10. (pt. 2.
p. 6.)
Review of Train’s “Mortmain.” B. E. T. Sept. 21. (pt. 3. p. 6.)

Merrick, Leonard.
By Ruth McIntire. Dial. June 6. (64:527.)
By R. Ellis Roberts. Liv. Age. Sept. 28. (298:775.)
Review of “While Paris Laughed.” By Rebecca West Outl. (London.)
Aug. 17. (42:159.)

Mille, Pierre.
_See_ French Literature During the War and After.

Moore, George. “A Story Teller’s Holiday.”
Review by Alexander Belshaw. Chicago Daily News. Aug. 21.

Morley, Christopher. “Shandygaff.”
Review by Ralph Bergengren. B. E. T. June 12. (pt 2. p. 6.)

N., A. C.
Interior Fiction. (Galsworthy’s “Five Tales.”) N. Rep. Aug. 10.
(16:53.)

_Norris, Kathleen._
Genius of the Short Story. (Fannie Hurst.) Cos. Sept. (93.)

_Noyes, George Rapall._
Chekhov. Nation. Oct 12. (107:406.)

_O’Brien, Edward J._
Best Short Stories of 1917. B. E. T. Jan. 19. (pt 3. p. 5.)
Best Sixty-Three American Short Stories of 1917. Book. Feb.
(46:696.)
Review of Williams’s “Handbook of Story-Writing.” Book. Jan.
(46:612.)
Some Books of Short Stories. Book. May. (47:299.)

_Olgin, Moissaye J._
Survey of Russian Literature. (I.) Book. Oct. (48:191.)

Ovid as a Short-Story Writer.
By Alexander Kadison. Poet-Lore. March-April. (29:206.)

Pearse, Padraic.
_See_ Irishry.

“_Pendennis._”
“My Types”—Rupert Hughes. For. Jan. (59:77.)

_Phelps, William Lyon._
Russian Revolutions and Literature. (With reviews of Dostoevsky,
Chekhov, and Artzibashev.) Yale R. Oct. (8:191.)

Pinski, David, Maeterlinck of America.
By Isaac Goldberg. B. E. T. July 17. (pt 2. p. 4.)
_See also_ Yiddish Writers.

Poe, Edgar Allan.
By Raoul de Beaucrispin. Bk. News Mo. April. (36:281.)
By Francis X. Talbot, S. J. America. June 1. (19:193.)

Post, Melville Davisson.
_See_ Tricks and Inventions.

Raisin, Abraham.
_See_ Yiddish Writers.

_Reed, Charles Francis._
Joseph C. Lincoln. For. Feb. (59:219.)

“Renaissance in the Eighties.”
Nation. Oct. 12. (107:404.)

_Roberts, R. Ellis._
Leonard Merrick. Liv. Age. Sept 28. (298:775.)

_Robertson, J. M._
Art of Joseph Conrad. N. A. Rev. Sept (208:439.)

_Rourke, Constance Mayfield._
English Raconteur. (A. Neil Lyons.) N. Rep. June 8. (15:180.)

Russian Literature, Survey of. (I.)
By Moissaye J. Olgin. Book. Oct. (48:191.)

Russian Revolutions and Literature. (With reviews of Dostoevsky, Chekhov, and Artzibashev.) By William Lyon Phelps. Yale R. Oct. (8:191.)

Sabatini, Rafael. “Historical Nights’ Entertainment.” (Review.) Nation (London.) Feb. 2. (22:577.)

_Salmon, Arthur L._
Joseph Conrad. Bk. News Mo. Aug. (36:442.)

Saltus, Edgar. C. O. Oct. (65:254.)

_Sargent, George H._
Letters of “O. Henry.” B. E. T. April 27. (pt. 3. p. 4.)

_Scarborough, Dorothy._
Review of Steele’s “Land’s End.” N. Y. Sun. Books and Book World.
Sept. 29. (10.)

Sélincourt, Hugh de.
Review of “Nine Tales.” By Myron R. Williams. Dial. March 14.
(64:241.)

Sherlock Holmes, In Praise of.
By Vincent Starrett. Mir. Feb. 22. (27:106.)

Short-Story Art and the Magazines.
By a Magazine Editor. Strat. J. July-Aug. (78.)

Smith, Arthur Cosslett.
By Vincent Starrett. Mir. Oct. 18. (27:522.)

_Smith, C. Alphonso._
“O. Henry.” Nation. May 11. (106:567.)

_Stanton, Theodore._
French Literature During the War and After. (With Notices of
Farrère and Mille.) Strat. J. (2:40.)

_Starrett, Vincent._
Arthur Cosslett Smith. Mir. Oct. 18. (27:522.)
In Praise of Sherlock Holmes. Mir. Feb. 22. (27:106.)
Irritating Mr. Burgess. Mir. Oct. 11. (27:511.)
James Branch Cabell. Chicago Herald and Examiner. F. A. Suppl.
May 11. (1.)

Steele, Wilbur Daniel.
Review of “Land’s End.” By Dorothy Scarborough. N. Y. Sun. Books
and Book World. Sept. 29. (10.)

Stevenson’s French Reading As Shown in His Correspondence.
By Ruth Lansing. Poet-Lore. March-April. (29:218.)

_Swinnerton, Frank._
Review of Galsworthy’s “Five Tales.” Outl. (London.) Aug. 10.
(42:131.)

Tagore, Rabindranath.
Review of “Mashi.” By Emily Grant Hutchings. Mir. Oct. 4.
(27:500.)

_Talbot, S. J., Francis X._
Edgar Allan Poe. America. June 1. (19:193.)
Henry James. America. Oct 12. (20:19.)

Tarkington, Booth. (“A Queer Fellow.”)
By William Aspenwall Bradley. Dial. March 28. (64:297.)

_Thayer, Scofield._
James Joyce. Dial. Sept. 19. (65:201.)

Thomas, Edward.
By Edward Garnett. Dial. Feb. 14. (64:135.)

Train, Arthur.
Review of “Mortmain,” by Dorothea Lawrance Mann. B. E. T. Sept.
21. (pt. 3. p. 6.)

Tricks and Inventions.
(Including reviews of Post’s “Uncle Abner” and Burt’s “John
O’May.”) Nation. Oct 19. (107:453.)

Turgenev, Ivan.
By Margaret Ashmun. B. E. T. Oct. 19. (pt. 3. p. 4.)

_Untermeyer Louis._
Review of “The Grim Thirteen.” Dial. Jan. 17. (64:70.)

War Novels [and Short Stories].
By Katharine Fullerton Gerould. Yale R. Oct. (8:159.)

_Wellington, Amy._
Artist-Fighter in English Prose: Cunninghame Graham. Book. April.
(47:155.)

_West, Rebecca._
Review of Merrick’s “While Paris Laughed.” Outl. (London.) Aug.
17. (42:159.)

Williams, Blanche Cotton. Review of “A Handbook on Story-Writing.”
By Edward J. O’Brien. Book. Jan. (46:612.)

_Williams, Myron R._
Review of Sélincourt’s “Nine Tales.” Dial. March 14. (64:241.)

Yiddish Writers, New York’s. (Pinski, Asch, Raisin, Libin, Kobrin.)
By Isaac Goldberg. Book. Feb. (46:684.)

MAGAZINE AVERAGES, JANUARY TO OCTOBER, 1918

_The following table includes the averages of American periodicals published during the ten-month period before November 1, 1918. One, two, and three a’s are employed to indicate relative distinction. “Three-a stories” are of somewhat permanent literary value. The table excludes reprints, but not translations._

────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
NO. OF DISTINCTIVE PERCENTAGE OF
PERIODICALS NO. OF STORIES PUBLISHED DISTINCTIVE
(Jan.-Oct.) STORIES STORIES PUBLISHED
PUBLSHED ──────────────────────────────────────────
a aa aaa a aa aaa
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Adventure 177 16 3 0 9 2 0
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Ainslee’s 75 9 1 0 12 1 0
Magazine
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
American 40 17 4 0 43 10 0
Magazine
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Atlantic 17 16 13 9 94 76 53
Monthly
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Bellman 24 21 5 3 88 20 13
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Black Cat 77 9 2 0 12 3 0
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Bookman 6 6 6 3 100 100 50
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Boston 14 13 7 2 93 50 14
Evening
Transcript
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Catholic 7 6 4 1 86 57 14
World
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Century 41 34 27 16 83 66 39
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Collier’s 79 36 18 6 46 23 8
Weekly
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Cosmopolitan 54 18 7 2 33 13 4
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Delineator 24 10 5 0 42 21 0
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Everybody’s 33 9 2 0 27 6 0
Magazine
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Every Week 53 17 4 0 32 8 0
(Jan. 5-June
22)
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Good 27 6 1 0 22 4 0
Housekeeping
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Harper’s 29 7 0 0 24 0 0
Bazar
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Harper’s 61 47 26 20 77 43 33
Magazine
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Hearst’s 47 6 2 1 13 4 2
Magazine
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Ladies’ Home 39 14 3 1 36 8 3
Journal
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Liberator 8 8 5 1 100 63 13
(Mar.-Oct.)
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Little Review 6 5 5 4 83 83 67
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
McClure’s 42 3 0 0 7 0 0
Magazine
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Magnificat 63 4 0 0 6 0 0
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Metropolitan 34 16 7 2 48 21 6
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Midland 11 9 7 3 81 63 27
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Munsey’s 40 2 1 0 5 3 0
Magazine
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
New York 43 37 18 7 86 42 16
Tribune
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Outlook 16 8 2 0 50 13 0
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Pagan 20 15 7 2 75 35 10
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Pictorial 31 16 9 8 52 29 26
Review
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Queen’s Work 9 2 0 0 22 0 0
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Reedy’s 14 11 2 0 79 14 0
Mirror
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Saturday 162 44 9 2 27 6 1
Evening Post
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Scribner’s 44 33 22 14 75 50 32
Magazine
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Short Stories 80 4 1 0 5 1 0
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Stratford 28 27 18 14 96 64 50
Journal
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Sunset 26 6 1 0 23 4 0
Magazine
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Touchstone 9 8 4 0 88 44 0
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Woman’s Home 38 4 2 0 11 5 0
Companion
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Youth’s 121 9 9 1 7 7 1
Companion
────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

_The following tables indicate the rank, during the period between January and October, 1918, inclusive, by number and percentage of distinctive stories published, of the nineteen periodicals coming within the scope of my examination which have published during that period over twenty-one stories and which have exceeded an average of 15 per cent in stories of distinction. The lists exclude reprints, but not translations._

BY PERCENTAGE OF DISTINCTIVE STORIES

1. Stratford Journal (including translations) .....96%
2. Bellman .....88%
3. New York Tribune (translations only) .....86%
4. Century .....83%
5. Harper’s Magazine ..... 77%
6. Scribner’s Magazine .....75%
7. Pictorial Review .....52%
8. Metropolitan Magazine .....48%
9. Collier’s Weekly .....46%
10. American Magazine .....43%
11. Delineator .....42%
12. Ladies’ Home Journal .....36%
13. Cosmopolitan .....33%
14. Every Week .....32%
15. Saturday Evening Post .....27%
16. Everybody’s Magazine .....27%
17. Harper’s Bazar .....24%
18. Sunset Magazine .....23%
19. Good Housekeeping ..... 22%

BY NUMBER OF DISTINCTIVE STORIES