*Mademoiselle Fifi. Boni and Liveright.
*Second Odd Number, The. Harper.

SELTZER, THOMAS, _Editor._ (_Russian._)
*Best Russian Short Stories, The. Boni and Liveright.

*SHIELD, THE. (_Russian._) Knopf.

STRINDBERG, AUGUST. (_Swedish._)
*Married. Boni and Liveright.

SUDERMANN, HERMANN. (_German._)
*Dame Care. Boni and Liveright.

TCHEKHOV, ANTON. (_Russian._)
*Duel, The. Macmillan.
*House with the Mezzanine, The. Scribner.
*Lady with the Dog, The. Macmillan.
*Party, The. Macmillan.
*Rothschild's Fiddle. Boni and Liveright.
*Will o' the Wisp. International Authors' Association.

TOLSTOI, ILYA, COUNT.
*Visions. Pond.

WRIGHT, WILLARD HUNTINGTON, _Editor._ (_French._)
*Great Modern French Stories, The. Boni and Liveright.

THE BEST SIXTY-THREE AMERICAN SHORT STORIES OF 1917

_The sixty-three short stories published in the American magazines
during 1917 which I shall discuss in this article are chosen from a
larger group of about one hundred and twenty-five stories, whose
literary excellence justified 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 about sixty-five American
periodicals during 1917. In selecting them, I have sought to accept the
author's point of view and manner of treatment, and to measure simply
the degree of success he had in doing what he set out to achieve. 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-three 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. THE EXCURSION by _Edwina Stanton Babcock_ (The Pictorial Review) is
in my belief one of the best five American short stories of the year. It
is significant because of its faithful and imaginative rendering of
American folk-life, because of its subtle characterization, and the
successful manner in which it reveals the essentially racy humor of the
American countryside with the utmost economy of means. The
characterization is achieved almost entirely through dialogue, and the
portraiture of the characters is rendered inimitably in a phrase or two.
In this story, as well as in "The Band," Miss Babcock has earned the
right to a place beside Francis Buzzell as a regional story writer,
fairly