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._

American Magazine
Atlantic Monthly
Bellman
Bookman
Boston Evening Transcript
Century
Collier's Weekly
Current Opinion
Delineator
Everybody's Magazine
Every Week
Forum
Harper's Magazine
Illustrated Sunday Magazine
Ladies' Home Journal
Little Review (except Oct.)
Masses (Jan.-Sept.)
McClure's Magazine
Metropolitan
Midland
New Republic
New York Tribune
Outlook
Pictorial Review
Poetry
Pagan
Reedy's Mirror
Russian Review (Jan.-July)
Saturday Evening Post
Scribner's Magazine
Seven Arts
Stratford Journal
Sunset Magazine
Touchstone
Yale Review

_The October and November issues of the Masses are not listed, as they
were not procurable through ordinary channels. The October issue of the
Russian Review was not yet published when this book went to press. The
October issue of the Little Review was withdrawn from circulation before
it could come to my notice._

_Short stories, of distinction only, published in the following
magazines and newspapers during 1917 are indexed._

Black Cat
Boston Herald
Colonnade
Cosmopolitan
Good Housekeeping
Harper's Bazar
Hearst's Magazine
Live Stories
McCall's Magazine
Milestones
Munsey's Magazine
Parisienne
Pearson's Magazine
Short Stories
Smart Set
Snappy Stories
Southern Woman's Magazine
To-day's Housewife
Woman's Home Companion
Youth's Companion

_Certain stories of distinction published in the following magazines and
newspapers during 1917 are indexed, because they ha