The Best Short Stories of 1921, and the Yearbook of the American Short Story

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By Percentage of Distinctive Stories

1. Dial	100%
2. Midland	93%
3. Asia	90%
4. Harper's Magazine	74%
5. Pictorial Review	71%
6. Century	70%
7. Atlantic Monthly	65%
8. Scribner's Magazine	52%
9. All's Well	43%
10. Harper's Bazar	38%
11. Good Housekeeping	28%
12. Smart Set	25%
13. Metropolitan	24%
14. Hearst's International	23%
15. Chicago Tribune	22%
16. Red Book Magazine	20%
17. McCall's Magazine	19%
18. Everybody's Magazine	18%
19. Cosmopolitan	18%
20. McClure's Magazine	17%
21. Saturday Evening Post	15%
22. Ladies' Home Journal	15%
23. Collier's Weekly	12%

By Number of Distinctive Stories

1. Pictorial Review	46
2. Harper's Magazine	39
3. Century	35
4. Saturday Evening Post	32
5. Smart Set	29
6. Scribner's Magazine	24
7. Red Book Magazine	23
8. Metropolitan	18
9. Hearst's International	18
10. Dial	16
11. Everybody's Magazine	16
12. Cosmopolitan	15
13. Midland	14
14. Atlantic Monthly	13
15. Good Housekeeping	13
16. Harper's Bazar	12
17. Collier's Weekly	12
18. Chicago Tribune	11
19. Asia	10
20. McCall's Magazine	9
21. McClure's Magazine	8
22. Ladies' Home Journal	8
23. All's Well	6

The following periodicals have published during the same period ten or more "two-asterisk stories." The list excludes reprints, but not translations. Periodicals represented in this list during 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, and 1920 are represented by the prefixed letters a, b, c, d, e, and f respectively.

1.	bcdef	Pictorial Review	31
2.	abcdef	Harper's Magazine	24
3.	abcdef	Century	15
4.	f	Dial	14

The following periodicals have published during the same period five or more "three-asterisk stories." The list excludes reprints, but not translations. The same signs are used as prefixes as in the previous list.

1.	bcdef	Pictorial Review	21
2.	f	Dial	11
3.	abcdef	Harper's Magazine	10
4.	abcdef	Century	5

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