BY PERCENTAGE OF DISTINCTIVE STORIES
1. Harper's Magazine 80%
2. Scribner's Magazine 80%
3. Century Magazine 80%
4. New York Tribune 73%
5. Bellman 72%
6. Pictorial Review 62%
7. Everybody's Magazine58%
8. Reedy's Mirror 56%
9. Collier's Weekly 47%
10.American Magazine 46%
11.Delineator 39%
12.Metropolitan Magazine 37%
13.Ladies' Home Journal33%
14.Good Housekeeping 30%
15.Saturday Evening Post 21%
16.Every Week 21%
17.Smart Set 20%
18.McClure's Magazine 20%
19.Sunset Magazine 19%
BY NUMBER OF DISTINCTIVE STORIES
1. Harper's Magazine 64
2. Saturday Evening Post 62
3. Scribner's Magazine 52
4. Collier's Weekly 51
5. Century Magazine 40
6. Bellman 34
7. Everybody's Magazine 26
8. Pictorial Review 26
9. American Magazine 25
10.New York Tribune 22
11.Smart Set 22
12.Reedy's Mirror 18
13.Delineator 18
14.Every Week 18
15.Metropolitan Magazine 16
16.Good Housekeeping 12
17.Ladies' Home Journal 11
18.McClure's Magazine 9
19.Sunset Magazine 6

The following periodicals have published during 1917 ten or more "two-asterisk stories." The list excludes reprints. Periodicals represented in this list during 1915 as well are indicated by an asterisk. Periodicals represented in this list during 1916 are indicated by a dagger.

1.*†Harper's Magazine 39
2.*†Scribner's Magazine 31
3.*†Century Magazine 29
4.*†Saturday Evening Post25
5.*†Collier's Weekly 20
6.Seven Arts 19
7.†Pictorial Review 18
8.Midland 17
9.*†Bellman 17
10.*†Smart Set 12
11.Atlantic Monthly 11
12.Touchstone 10

The following periodicals have published during 1917 five or more "three-asterisk stories." The list excludes reprints. Periodicals represented in this list during 1915 as well are indicated by an asterisk. Periodicals represented in this list during 1916 are indicated by a dagger.

1.*†Harper's Magazine 27
2.*†Century Magazine 17
3.*†Scribner's Magazine 16
4.Seven Arts 14
5.†Pictorial Review 14
6.Stratford Journal 9
7.*†Saturday Evening Post 7
8.Atlantic Monthly 5
9.*Metropolitan 5
10.Good Housekeeping 5

Ties in the above lists have been decided by taking relative rank in other lists into account.

INDEX OF SHORT STORIES FOR 1917

All short stories published in the following magazines and newspapers during 1917 are indexed.