American reader so attractively that it is thoroughly persuasive. Akin
in a measure to certain similar stories by Jeannette Marks, they have
the same prismatic quality of brilliance and impermanence. I do not
believe that the reader who enjoys the poetry of the mind will find
these allegories specially esoteric, but I may commend them frankly for
their story value, irrespective of the symbols which the author has
chosen to attach to them.

THE GREAT MODERN FRENCH STORIES edited by _Willard Huntington Wright_
(Boni and Liveright), MARRIED by _August Strindberg_ (Boni and
Liveright), and VISIONS by _Count Ilya Tolstoy_ (James B. Pond) have
reached me too late for extended review. I list them here as three
volumes of permanent literary value.

VOLUMES OF SHORT STORIES PUBLISHED DURING 1917

NOTE. _An asterisk before a title indicates distinction. This list
includes single short stories, collections of short stories, and a few
continuous narratives based on short stories previously published in
magazines._

I. AMERICAN AUTHORS

ADAMS, SAMUEL HOPKINS.
*Our Square and the People In It. Houghton-Mifflin.

BAIN, R. NISBET.
*Cossack Fairy Tales. Stokes.

BANGS, JOHN KENDRICK.
Half Hours With the Idiot. Little, Brown.

BASSETT, WILBUR.
Wander-Ships. Open Court Pub. Co.

BEACH, REX.
Laughing Bill Hyde. Harper.

BEND, REV. JOHN J.
Stranger than Fiction. Sheehan.

BOTTOME, PHYLLIS.
*Derelict, The. Century.

BRADLEY, WILLIAM ASPENWALL.
*Old Christmas, and Other Kentucky Tales in Verse. Houghton-Mifflin.

BRADY, CYRUS TOWNSEND.
Little Book for Christmas, A. Putnam.

BROOKS, ALDEN.
*Fighting Men, The. Scribner.

BROWN, KATHARINE HOLLAND.
*Wages of Honor, The. Scribner.

BRUBAKER, HOWARD.
Ranny. Harper.

BRUNTON, F. CARMICHAEL.
Enchanted Lochan, The. Crowell.

BUNNER, H. C.
*More "Short Sixes." Scribner.
*"Short Sixes." Scribner.

BUNTS, FREDERICK EMORY.
Soul of Henry Harrington, The. Cleveland: privately printed.

BUTLER, ELLIS PARKER.
Dominie Dean. Revell.

CARMICHAEL, M. H.
Pioneer Days. Duffield.

CARTER, CHARLES FRANKLIN.
Stories of the Old Missions of California. Elder.

CHAMBERS, ROBERT W.
*Barbarians. Appleton.

COBB, IRVIN S.
*Those Times and These. Doran.

COFFIN, JULIA H.
Vendor of Dreams, The. Dodd, Mead.

*COLLIER'S, PRIZE STORIES FROM. 5 v. Collier.

CONNOLLY, JAMES B.
*Running Free. Scribner.

COOLIDGE, GRACE.