Five magazines during this four-year period far surpass all others in the number of distinctive stories published during that time, and Harper’s Magazine leads its nearest competitor by forty-nine stories. The list follows:

  1. Harper’s Magazine .....232

  2. Saturday Evening Post .....183

  3. Collier’s Weekly .....178

  4. Scribner’s Magazine .....166

  5. Century Magazine .....151

  1. Harper’s Magazine .....232
  2. Saturday Evening Post .....183
  3. Collier’s Weekly .....178
  4. Scribner’s Magazine .....166
  5. Century Magazine .....151

Reprints have not been taken into account in the last two lists.

[INDEX OF SHORT STORIES IN BOOKS, JANUARY TO OCTOBER, 1918]

ABBREVIATIONS

Andrews A ........Andrews. Her Country

Andreyev A .......Andreyev. Seven That Were Hanged

Andreyev B .......Andreyev and Bunin. Lazarus, and Gentleman

from San Francisco.

Atlantic A .......Thomas. Atlantic Narratives: First Series

Atlantic B .......Thomas. Atlantic Narratives: Second Series

Bierce A .........Bierce. In the Midst of Life

Bierce B .........Bierce. Can Such Things Be?

Boccaccio ........Boccaccio. Tales

Brown ............Brown. Flying Teuton

Buchan ...........Buchan. The Watcher by the Threshold

Burt .............Burt. John O’May, and Other Stories

Canfield A .......Canfield. Home Fires In France

Chekhov A ........Chekhov. Nine Humorous Tales

Chekhov B ........Chekhov. The Wife

Chekhov C ........Chekhov. The Witch

Cobb A ...........Cobb. The Thunders of Silence

Dantchenko .......Dantchenko. Peasant Tales of Russia

Dostoevsky A .....Dostoevsky. White Nights, and Other Stories

Dreiser ..........Dreiser. Free, and Other Stories

Duncan A .........Duncan. Battles Royal Down North

Duncan B .........Duncan. Harbor Tales Down North

Dunsany A ........Dunsany. Tales of War

Ferber ...........Ferber. Cheerful—By Request

Freeman ..........Freeman. Edgewater People

French ...........French. Great Ghost Stories

Galsworthy A .....Galsworthy. Five Tales

Gogol ............Gogol. Taras Bulba

Gorky A ..........Gorky. Creatures That Once Were Men

Gorky B ..........Gorky. Stories of the Steppe

Harris ...........Harris. Uncle Remus Returns

Henry ............“O. Henry.” Ransom of Red Chief

Hergesheimer .....Hergesheimer. Gold and Iron

Hughes ...........Hughes. Long Ever Ago

Hurst ............Hurst. Gaslight Sonatas

Jacks A ..........Jacks. The Country Air

Law ..............Law. Modern Short Stories

London ...........London. The Red One

McPherson ........McPherson. Tales of Wartime France

McSpadden ........McSpadden. Famous Ghost Stories

O’Kelly ..........O’Kelly. Waysiders

Phillpotts .......Phillpotts. Chronicles of Saint Tid

Post .............Post. Uncle Abner: Master of Mysteries

Schweikert .......Schweikert. French Short Stories

Steele ...........Steele. Land’s End, and Other Stories

Tagore ...........Tagore. Mashi, and Other Stories

Taketomo .........Taketomo. Paulownia

Tolstoi ..........Tolstoi. What Men Live By

Williams .........Williams. A Book of Short Stories

Wormser ..........Wormser. The Scarecrow, and Other Stories

I. American Authors

Andrews, Mary Raymond Shipman.

Her Country. Andrews A. 1.