II. English and Irish Authors

Windmills: A Book of Fables, by Gilbert Cannan (B. W. Huebsch, Inc.). This is the first American edition of a book published in London in 1915. Conceived as a new "Candide," it is a bitter satire on war and international politics. While it ostensibly consists of four short stories, they have a unity of action which is sketched rather than fully set forth. In fact, the volume is really a notebook for a larger work. Set beside the satire of Voltaire, Mr. Cannan's master, it is seen to fail because of its lack of kindly irony. In fact, it is a little overdone.

The Eve of Pascua, by "Richard Dehan" (George H. Doran Company). Two years ago I had occasion to call attention to the quite unstressed romanticism of Mrs. Graves' "Under the Hermes." The present volume is of much less significance, and I only mention it because of the title story, which is an adequately rendered picture of contemporary Spanish life, much less overdrawn than the other stories.

Poems and Prose, of Ernest Dowson (Boni and Liveright). Five of the nine short stories by Ernest Dowson are included in this admirable reprint, but it omits the better stories which appeared in The Savoy, and in a later edition I suggest that the poems be printed in a volume by themselves with Mr. Symons' memoir, and all the stories in another volume which should include among others "The Dying of Francis Donne" and "Countess Marie of The Angels."

The Golden Bird and Other Sketches, by Dorothy Eastern, with a foreword by John Galsworthy (Alfred A. Knopf). These forty short sketches of Sussex and of France are rendered deftly with a faithful objectivity of manner which has not barred out the essential poetry of their substance. These pictures are lightly touched with a quiet brooding significance, as if they had been seen at twilight moments in a dream world in which human relationships had been partly forgotten. They are frankly impressionistic, except for the group of French stories, in which Miss Easton has sought more definitely to interpret character. The danger of this form is a certain preciosity which the author has skilfully evaded, and the influence of Mr. Galsworthy is nowhere too clearly apparent. I recommend the volume as one of the best English books which has come to us during the past year.

My Neighbors: Stories of the Welsh People, by Caradoc Evans (Harcourt, Brace and Howe). In his third collection of stories, Mr. Evans has for the most part forsaken his study of the Cardigan Bay peasant for the London Welsh, and although his style preserves the same stark biblical notation as before, it seems less suited to record the ironies of an industrial civilization. Allowing for this, and for Mr. Evans' bent towards an unduly acid estimate of human nature, it must be confessed that these stories have a certain permanent literary quality, most successful in "Earthbred," "Joseph's House," and "A Widow Woman." These three collections make it tolerably clear that Mr. Evans will find his true medium in the novel, where an epic breadth of material is at hand to fit his epic breadth of speech.

Tatterdemalion, by John Galsworthy (Charles Scribner's Sons). This volume contains the ripest product of Mr. Galsworthy's short story art during the past seven years. Its range is very wide, and in these twenty-three stories, we have the best of the mystical war legends from "The Grey Angel" to "Cafard," the gentle irony of "The Recruit" and "Defeat," and the gracious vision of "Spindleberries," "The Nightmare Child," and "Buttercup-Night." Nowhere in the volume do we find the slight touch of sentimentality which has marred the strength of Mr. Galsworthy's later novels, but everywhere very quietly realised pictures of a golden age which is still possible to his imagination, despite the harsh conflict with material realities which his art has often encountered. Perhaps the best story in the present collection is "Cafard," where Mr. Galsworthy has almost miraculously succeeded in extracting the last emotional content out of a situation in which a single false touch of sentiment would have wrecked his story.

Limbo, by Aldous Huxley (George H. Doran Company). This collection of six fantasies in prose and one play has no special principle of unity except its attempt to apply the art of Laforgue to much less adequate material. Setting aside "Happy Families" as entirely negligible, and "Happily Ever After" and "Eupompus Gave Splendour to Art by Numbers" as qualified successes, the other four stories do achieve more or less what they set out to do, although Mr. Huxley only achieves a personal synthesis of style and substance in "The Death of Lully." The other three stories are full of promise as yet unrealised because of Mr. Huxley's inability or unwillingness to conceal the technique of his art.

Deep Waters, by W. W. Jacobs (Charles Scribner's Sons). Mr. Jacobs' formula is not yet outworn, but it is becoming perilously uncertain. His talent has always been a narrow one, but in his early volumes his realization of character was quite vivid, and his plot technique superb. At least two of these stories are entirely mechanical, and the majority do not rise above mediocrity. "Paying Off," "Sam's Ghost," and "Dirty Work" faintly recall Mr. Jacobs' early manner.

Lo, and Behold Ye!, by Seumas MacManus (Frederick A. Stokes Company). Many of these chimney-corner stories are older than Homer, but Mr. MacManus has retold them in the language of the roads, and this pageant of tinkers and kings, fairies and scholars, lords and fishermen march by to the sound of the pipes and the ribald comments of little boys along the road. The quality of this volume is as fresh as that of those first Donegal fairy stories which Mr. McClure discovered twenty-five years ago. I think that the best of these stories are "The Mad Man, The Dead Man, and the Devil," "Dark Patrick's Blood-horse," and "Donal O'Donnell's Standing Army," but this is only a personal selection.

The Clintons, and Others, by Archibald Marshall (Dodd, Mead and Company). I believe that this is Mr. Marshall's first volume of short stories, and they have a certain interest as a quiet chronicle of an old social order which has gone never to return. The comparison of Mr. Marshall's work with that of Anthony Trollope is as inevitable as it is to the former's disadvantage. This volume shows honest, sincere craftsmanship, and never rises nor falls below an average level of mediocrity.

The Man Who Understood Women, and While Paris Laughed, by Leonard Merrick (E. P. Dutton and Company). These two volumes of the collected edition of Mr. Merrick's novels and stories are of somewhat uneven value. The best of them have a finish which is unsurpassed in its kind by any of his English contemporaries, but there are many stories in the first of these two volumes which are somewhat ephemeral. Mr. Locke in his introduction to "The Man Who Understood Women" rather overstates Mr. Merrick's case, but at his best these stories form an interesting English parallel to the work of O. Henry. The second volume suffers the fate of all sequels in endeavouring to revive after a lapse of years the pranks and passions of the poet Tricotrin. The first five stories in the volume, while they do not attain the excellence of "The Tragedy of a Comic Song," are worthy stories in the same kind. The other seven stories are frankly mawkish in content, although redeemed by Mr. Merrick's excellent technique.

Workhouse Characters, by Margaret Wynne Nevinson (The Macmillan Company). This collection of newspaper sketches written during the past fifteen years have no pretensions to art, and were written with a frankly propagandist intention. The vividness of their portraiture and the passion of their challenge to the existing social order warrant their mention here, and I do not think they will be forgotten readily by those who read them. This volume has attracted little comment in the American press, and it would be a pity if it is permitted to go out of print over here.

The New Decameron: Volume the First (Robert M. McBride & Co.). There is more to be said for the idea which prompted these stories than for the success with which the idea has been carried out. A group of tourists seeking adventures on the Continent agree to beguile the tedium of the journey by telling each other tales. Unfortunately the Nightingale does not sing on, and the young Englishmen and women who have collaborated in this volume have gone about their task in a frankly amateurish spirit. The stories by W. F. Harvey and Sherard Vines attain a measured success, and some mention may be made of M. Storm-Jameson's story, "Mother-love." It is to be hoped that in future volumes of the series, the editor will choose his contributors more carefully, and frankly abandon the Decameron structure, which has been artificially imposed after the stories were written.

Wrack, and Other Stories, by "Dermot O'Byrne" (Dublin: The Talbot Press, Ltd.), The Golden Barque, and the Weaver's Grave, by Seumas O'Kelly (Dublin: The Talbot Press, Ltd.), and Eight Short Stories, by Lennox Robinson (Dublin: The Talbot Press, Ltd.). As these three volumes are not published in America, I only mention them here in the hope that this notice may reach a friendly publisher's eye. Up to a few years ago poetry and drama were the only two creative forms of the Irish Literary Revival. This tide has now ebbed, and is succeeded by an equally significant tide of short story writers. The series of volumes issued by the Talbot Press, of which those I have just named are the most noteworthy, should be promptly introduced to the American public, and I think that I can promise safely that they are the forerunners of a most promising literature.

The Old Card, by Roland Pertwee (Boni and Liveright, Inc.). This series of twelve short stories depict the life of an English touring actor with a quiet artistry of humor suggestive of Leonard Merrick's best work. They are quite frankly studies in sentiment, but they successfully avoid sentimentality for the most part, and in "Eliphalet Cardomay" I feel that the author has created a definitely perceived character.

Old Junk, by H. M. Tomlinson (Alfred A. Knopf). It is not my function here to point out that "Old Junk" is one of the best volumes of essays published in recent years, but simply to direct attention to the fact that it includes two short stories, "The Lascar's Walking-Stick" and "The Extra Hand," which are fine studies in atmospheric values. I think that the former should find a place in most future anthologies.

By Violence, by "John Trevena" (The Four Seas Company). Although John Trevena's novels have found a small public in America, his short stories are practically unknown. The present volume reprints three of them, of which "By Violence" is the best. In fact, it is only surpassed by "Matrimony" in its revelation of poetic grace and gentle vision. If the feeling is veiled and somewhat aloof from the common ways of men, there is none the less a fine human sympathy concealed in it. I like to think that a new reading of earth may be deciphered from this text.

Port Allington Stories, by R. E. Vernède (George H. Doran Company). This volume of stories which is drawn from the late Lieutenant Vernède's output during the past twelve years reveals a genuine talent for the felicitous portrayal of social life in an English village, and suggests that he might have gone rather far in stories of adventure. "The Maze" is the best story in the volume, and makes it clear that a brilliant short story writer was lost in France during the war.

Holy Fire, and Other Stories, by Ida A. R. Wylie (John Lane Company). I have called attention to many of these stories in previous years, but now that they are reprinted as a group I must reaffirm my belief that few among the younger English short story writers have such a command of dramatic finality as Miss Wylie. It is true that these stories might have been told with advantage in a more quiet tone. This would have made the war stories more memorable, but perhaps the problem which the book presents for solution is whether or no an instinctive dramatist is using the wrong literary medium. Certainly in "Melia, No Good" her treatment would have been less effective in a play than in a short story.

III. Translations

When the King Loses His Head, and Other Stories, by Leonid Andreyev. Translated by Archibald J. Wolfe (International Book Publishing Company), and Modern Russian Classics. Introduction by Isaac Goldberg (The Four Seas Company). In previous years I have called attention to other selections of Andreyev's stories. The present collection includes the best from the other volumes, with some new material. "Judas Iscariot" and "Lazarus" are the best of the prose poems. "Ben-Tobith," "The Marseillaise," and "Dies Iræ" are the most memorable of his very short stories, while the volume also includes "When The King Loses His Head," and a less-known novelette entitled "Life of Father Vassily." The volume entitled "Modern Russian Classics" includes five short stories by Andreyev, Sologub, Artzibashev, Chekhov, and Gorky.

Prometheus: the Fall of the House of Limón: Sunday Sunlight: Poetic Novels of Spanish Life, by Ramón Pérez de Ayala, Prose translations by Alice P. Hubbard: Poems done into English by Grace Hazard Conkling (E. P. Dutton & Co.). Señor Pérez de Ayala has achieved in these three stories what may be quite frankly regarded as a literary form. They do not conform to a single rule of the short story as we have been taught to know it. In fact, this is a pioneer book which opens up a new field. The stories have no plot, no climax, no direct characterization, and at first sight no plan. Presently it appears that the author's apparent episodic treatment of his substance has a special unity of its own woven around the spiritual relations of his heroes. It is hard to judge of an author's style in translation, but the brilliant coloring of his pictures is apparent from this English version. The nearest analogue in English are the fantasies of Norman Douglas, but Pérez de Ayala has a much more profoundly realized philosophy of life. The poems which serve as interludes in these stories, curiously enough, add to the unity of the action.

The Last Lion, and Other Tales, by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, with an Introduction by Mariano Joaquin Lorente (The Four Seas Company). The present vogue of Señor Blasco Ibáñez is more sentimental than justified, but in "Luxury" he has written an admirable story, and the other five stories have a certain distinction of coloring.

The Bishop, and Other Stories, and The Chorus Girl, and Other Stories, by Anton Chekhov; translated from the Russian by Constance Garnett (The Macmillan Company). I have called attention to previous volumes in this edition of Chekhov from time to time. These two new additions to the series carry the English version of the complete tales two-thirds of the way toward completion. Chekhov is one of the three short story writers of the world indispensable to every fellow craftsman, and these nineteen stories are drawn for the most part from the later and more mature period of his work.

The Surprises of Life, by Georges Clémenceau; translated by Grace Hall (Doubleday, Page & Company). Although this volume shows a gift of crisp narrative and sharply etched portraiture, it is chiefly important as a revelation of M. Clémenceau's state of mind. Had it been called to the attention of Mr. Wilson before he went to Paris, the course of international diplomacy might have been rather different. These twenty-five stories and sketches one and all reveal a sneering scepticism about human nature and an utter denial of moral values. From a technical point of view, "The Adventure of My Curé" is a successful story.

Tales of My Native Town, by Gabriele D'Annunzio; translated by G. Mantellini, with an Introduction by Joseph Hergesheimer (Doubleday, Page & Company). This anthology drawn from various volumes of Signor D'Annunzio's stories gives the American a fair bird's-eye view of the various aspects of his work. These twelve portraits by the Turner of corruption have a severe logic of their own which may pass for being classical. As diploma pieces they are incomparable, but as renderings of life they carry no sense of conviction. Mr. Hergesheimer's introduction is a more or less unsuccessful special plea. While it is perfectly true that the author has achieved what he set out to do, these stories already seem old-fashioned, and as years go on will be read, if at all, for their landscapes only.

Military Servitude and Grandeur, by Alfred de Vigny; translated by Frances Wilson Huard (George H. Doran Company). It is curious that this volume should have waited so long for a translator. Alfred de Vigny was an early nineteenth century forerunner of Barbusse and Duhamel, and this record of the Napoleonic wars is curiously analogous to the books of these later men. I call attention to it here because it includes "Laurette," which is one of the great French short stories.

An Honest Thief, and Other Stories, by Fyodor Dostoevsky; translated from the Russian by Constance Garnett (The Macmillan Company). This is the eleventh volume in the first collected English edition of Dostoevsky's works. The great Russian novelist was not a consummate technician when he wrote short stories, but the massive epic sweep of his genius clothed the somewhat inorganic substance of his tales with a reality which is masterly in the title story, in "An Unpleasant Predicament," and in "Another Man's Wife." The volume includes among other stories "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man," which, though little known, is the key to the philosophy of his greater novels.

Civilization, 1914-1917, by Georges Duhamel; translated by E. S. Brooks (The Century Co.). This volume shares with Élie Faure's "La Sainte Face" first place among the volumes of permanent literature produced in France during the war. With more subtle and restrained artistry than M. Barbusse, the author has portrayed the simple chronicles of many of his comrades. He employs only the plainest notation of speech, with an economy not unlike that of Maupassant, and the indictment is the more terrible because of this emphasis of understatement. Before the war, M. Duhamel was known as a competent and somewhat promising poet and dramatist, and he was one of the few to whom the war brought an ampler endowment rather than a numbing silence.

Czecho-Slovak Stories, translation by Šárka B. Hrbkova (Duffield and Company). I trust that this volume will prove a point of departure for a series of books each devoted to the work of a separate Czecho-Slovak master. Certainly the work of Jan Neruda, Svatopluk Čech, and Caroline Svĕtlá, to name no others, ranks with the best of the Russian masters, and the reader is compelled to speculate as to how many more equally fine writers remain unknown to him. For such stories as these can only come out of a long and conscious tradition of art, and the greater part of these stories are drawn from volumes published during the last half century. The volume contains an admirable historical and critical introduction, and adequate biographies and bibliographies of the authors included.

Serenus, and Other Stories of the Past and Present, by Jules Lemaître; translated by "Penguin" (A. W. Evans) (London: Selwyn & Blount). Although this volume has not yet been published in the United States, it is one of the few memorable short story books of the season, and should readily find a publisher over here. Anatole France has prophesied that it will stand out in the history of the thought of the nineteenth century, just as to-day "Candide" or "Zadig" stands out in that of the eighteenth. These fourteen stories are selected from about four times that number, and a complete Lemaître would be as valuable in English as the new translation of Anatole France. The present version is faultlessly rendered by an English stylist who has sought to set down the exact shade of the critic's meaning.

Tales of Mystery and Horror, by Maurice Level; translated from the French by Alys Eyre Macklin, with an Introduction by Henry B. Irving (Robert M. McBride & Co.). Mr. Irving's introduction rather overstates M. Level's case. These stories are not literature, but their hard polished technique is as competent as that of Melville Davisson Post, and I suppose that these two men have carried Poe's technique as far as it can be carried with talent. The stories are frankly melodramatic, and wring the last drop of emotion and sentiment out of each situation presented. I think the volume will prove valuable to students of short story construction, and there is no story which does not arrest the attention of the reader.

The Story of Gotton Connixloo, followed by Forgotten, by Camille Mayran; translated by Van Wyck Brooks (E.P. Dutton & Company). Mr. Brooks' translation of these two stories in the tradition of Flaubert have been a labor of love. They will not attract a large public, but the art of this Belgian writer is flawless, and worthy of his master. Out of the simplest material he has extracted an exquisite spiritual essence, and held it up quietly so as to reflect every aspect of its value. If the first of these two stories is the most completely rounded from a technical point of view, I think that the second points the way toward his future development. He presents his characters more directly, and achieves his revelation through dialogue rather than personal statement.

Short Stories from the Spanish; Englished by Charles B. McMichael (Boni and Liveright, Inc.). The present volume contains seven short stories by Rubén Dario, Jacinto Octavio Picón, and Leopoldo Alas. They are wretchedly translated, but even in their present form one can divine the art of "The Death of the Empress of China" by the Nicaraguan Rubén Dario, and "After the Battle" by the Spaniard Jacinto Octavio Picón. The other stories are of unequal value, so far as we can judge from Mr. McMichael's translation.

The Fairy Spinning Wheel, and the Tales It Spun, by Catulle Mendès; translated by Thomas J. Vivian (The Four Seas Company). It was a happy thought to reprint this translation of M. Mendès' fairy tales which has been out of print for many years. It is probably the only work of its once renowned author which survives the passage of time. Here he has entered the child's mind and deftly presented a series of legends which suggest more than they state. Their substance is slight enough, but each has a certain symbolic value, and the poetry of M. Mendès' style has been successfully transferred to the English version.

Temptations, by David Pinski; translated by Isaac Goldberg (Brentano's). We have already come to know what a keen analyst America has in Mr. Pinski from the translations of his plays which have been published. Here he is much less interested in the surface movement of plot than in the relentless search for motive. To his Yiddish public he seems perhaps the best of short story writers who write in his tongue, and certainly he can hold his own with the best of his contemporaries in all countries. He has the universal note as few English writers may claim it, and he stands apart from his creation with absolute detachment. His work, together with that of Asch, Aleichem, Perez, and one or two others establishes Yiddish as a great literary tongue. A further series of these tales are promised if the present volume meets with the response which it deserves.

Russian Short Stories, edited by Harry C. Schweikert (Scott, Foresman and Company). This is a companion volume to Mr. Schweikert's excellent collection of French short stories, and ranges over a wide field. From Pushkin to Kuprin his selection gives a fair view of most of the Russian masters, and the collection includes a valuable historical and critical introduction, with biographical notes, and a critical apparatus for the student of short story technique. It is of special educational importance as the only volume in the field. In the next edition I suggest that Sologub should be represented for the sake of completeness.

Iolanthe's Wedding, by Hermann Sudermann; translated by Adèle S. Seltzer (Boni and Liveright, Inc.). This collection of four minor works by Sudermann contains two excellent stories, one of which is full of folk quality and a kindly irony, and the other more akin to the nervous art of Arthur Schnitzler. "The Woman Who Was His Friend" and "The Gooseherd" are less important, but of considerable technical interest.

Short Stories from the Balkans; translated by Edna Worthley Underwood (Marshall Jones Company). This volume should be set beside the collection of "Czecho-Slovak Stories," which I have mentioned on an earlier page. Here will be found further stories by Jan Neruda and Svatopluk Čech, together with a remarkable group of stories by Rumanian, Serbian, Croatian, and Hungarian authors. Neruda emerges as the greatest artist of them all, and one of the greatest artists in Europe, but special attention should be called also to the Czech writer Vrchlický, the Rumanian Caragiale, and the Hungarian Mikszáth. The translation seems competently done.

Modern Greek Stories; translated by Demetra Vaka and Aristides Phoutrides (Duffield and Company). While this collection reveals no such undoubted master as Jan Neruda, it is an extremely interesting introduction to an equally unknown literature. Seven of the nine stories are of great literary value, and perhaps the best of these is "Sea" by A. Karkavitsas. Romaic fiction still bears the marks of a young tradition, and each new writer would seem to be compelled to strike out more or less completely for himself. Consequently it is necessary to allow more than usual for technical inadequacy, but the substance of most of these stories is sufficiently remarkable to justify us in wishing a further introduction to Romaic literature.

VOLUMES OF SHORT STORIES PUBLISHED IN THE UNITED STATES

OCTOBER, 1919, TO SEPTEMBER, 1920: AN INDEX

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. Volumes announced for publication in the autumn of 1920 are listed here, though in some cases they had not yet appeared at the time this book went to press.

I. American Authors

Abdullah, Achmed. *Wings. McCann.

Abdullah, Achmed, and others. Ten Foot Chain. Reynolds.

Ade, George. Home Made Fables. Doubleday, Page.

Anderson, Emma Maria Thompson. A 'Chu. Review and Herald Pub. Assn.

Anderson, Robert Gordon. Seven O'clock Stories. Putnam.

Barbour, Ralph Henry. Play That Won. Appleton.

Benneville, James Seguin De. Tales of the Tokugawa. Reilly.

Bishop, William Henry. Anti-Babel. Neale.

Boyer, Wilbur S. Johnnie Kelly. Houghton Mifflin.

Bridges, Victor. Cruise of the "Scandal." Putnam.

Brown, Alice. *Homespun and Gold. Macmillan.

Butler, Ellis Parker. Swatty. Houghton Mifflin.

Carroll, P. J. Memory Sketches. School Plays Pub. Co.

Cather, Willa Sibert. *Youth and the Bright Medusa. Knopf.

Chambers, Robert W. Slayer of Souls. Doran.

Cohen, Octavus Roy. Come Seven. Dodd, Mead.

Comfort, Will Levington, and Dost, Zamin Ki. Son of Power. Doubleday, Page.

Connolly, James B. *Hiker Joy. Scribner.

"Crabb, Arthur." Samuel Lyle, Criminologist. Century Co.

Cram, Mildred. Lotus Salad. Dodd, Mead.

Cutting, Mary Stewart. Some of Us Are Married. Doubleday, Page.

Davies, Ellen Chivers. Ward Tales. Lane.

Deland, Margaret. *Small Things. Harper.

Dickson, Harris. Old Reliable in Africa. Stokes.

Dodge, Henry Irving. Skinner Makes It Fashionable. Harper.

Dost, Zami Ki. See Comfort, Will Levington and Dost, Zamin Ki.

Dwight, H. G. *Emperor of Elam. Doubleday, Page.

Edgar, Randolph, editor. *Miller's Holiday: Short Stories from The Northwestern Miller. Miller Pub. Co.

Ferber, Edna. *Half Portions. Doubleday, Page.

Fillmore, Parker. *Shoemaker's Apron. Harcourt, Brace and Howe.

Fitzgerald, Francis Scott Key. Flappers and Philosophers. Scribner.

Ford, Sewell. Meet 'Em with Shorty McCabe. Clode.
Torchy and Vee. Clode.
Torchy as a Pa. Clode.

French, Joseph Lewis, editor. *Best Psychic Stories. Boni and Liveright.
*Masterpieces of Mystery. 4 vol. Doubleday, Page.

Gittins, H. N. Short and Sweet. Lane.

Graham, James C. It Happened at Andover. Houghton Mifflin.

Hall, Herschel S. Steel Preferred. Dutton.

Haslett, Harriet Holmes. Impulses. Cornhill Co.

Heydrick, Benjamin, editor. *Americans All. Harcourt, Brace, and Howe.

Hill, Frederick Trevor. Tales Out of Court. Stokes.

Howells, William Dean, editor. *Great Modern American Stories. Boni and Liveright.

Hughes, Jennie V. Chinese Heart-Throbs. Revell.

Hughes, Rupert. *Momma, and Other Unimportant People. Harper.

Huneker, James. *Bedouins. Scribner.

Imrie, Walter McLaren. *Legends. Midland Press.

Irwin, Wallace. Suffering Husbands. Doran.

James, Henry. *Master Eustace. Seltzer.

Jessup, Alexander, editor. *Best American Humorous Short Stories. Boni and Liveright.

Johnson, Arthur. *Under the Rose. Harper.

Kelley, F. C. City and the World. Extension Press.

Lamprey, L. Masters of the Guild. Stokes.

Leacock, Stephen. Winsome Winnie. Lane.

Linderman, Frank Bird. *On a Passing Frontier. Scribner.

Linton, C. E. Earthomotor. Privately Printed.

McCarter, Margaret Hill. Paying Mother. Harper.

Mackay, Helen. *Chill Hours. Duffield.

MacManus, Seumas. *Top o' the Mornin'. Stokes.

McSpadden, J. Walker, editor. Famous Detective Stories. Crowell.
Famous Psychic Stories. Crowell.

Martin, George Madden. *Children in the Mist. Appleton.

Means, E. K. *Further E. K. Means. Putnam.

Miller, Warren H. Sea Fighters. Macmillan.

Montague, Margaret Prescott. *England to America. Doubleday, Page.
*Uncle Sam of Freedom Ridge. Doubleday, Page.

Montgomery, L. M. Further Chronicles of Avonlea. Page.

Morgan, Byron. Roaring Road. Doran.

O'Brien, Edward J. Best Short Stories of 1919. Small, Maynard.

Paine, Ralph D. Ships Across the Sea. Houghton Mifflin.

Perry, Lawrence. For the Game's Sake. Scribner.

Pitman, Norman Hinsdale. Chinese Wonder Book. Dutton.

Poe, Edgar Allan. *Gold-bug. Four Seas.

Post, Melville Davisson. *Sleuth of St. James's Square. Appleton.

Rhodes, Harrison. *High Life. McBride.

Rice, Alice Hegan, and Rice, Cale Young. Turn About Tales. Century Co.

Richards, Clarice E. Tenderfoot Bride. Revell.

Richmond, Grace S. Bells of St. John's. Doubleday, Page.

Rinehart, Mary Roberts. Affinities. Doran.

Robbins, Tod. *Silent, White, and Beautiful. Boni and Liveright.

Robinson, William Henry. Witchery of Rita. Berryhill Co.

Sedgwick, Anne Douglas. *Christmas Roses. Houghton Mifflin.

Smith, Gordon Arthur. *Pagan. Scribner.

Society of Arts and Sciences. *O. Henry Memorial Prize Stories, 1919. Doubleday, Page.

Spofford, Harriet Prescott. *Elder's People. Houghton Mifflin.

Train, Arthur. Tutt and Mr. Tutt. Scribner.

Vorse, Mary Heaton. *Ninth Man. Harper.

Whalen, Louise Margaret. Father Ladden, Curate. Magnificat Pub. Co.

White, Stewart Edward. Killer. Doubleday, Page.

Widdemer, Margaret. Boardwalk. Harcourt, Brace, and Howe.

Wiggin, Kate Douglas. *Homespun Tales. Houghton Mifflin.

Wiley, Hugh. Wildcat. Doran.

Yezierska, Anzia. *Hungry Hearts. Houghton Mifflin.

II. English and Irish Authors

Baxter, Arthur Beverley. Blower of Bubbles. Appleton.

Beerbohm, Max. *Seven Men. Knopf.

Cannan, Gilbert. *Windmills. Huebsch.

"Dehan, Richard." (Clotilde Graves). Eve of Pascua. Doran.

Dell, Ethel May. Tidal Wave. Putnam.

Dunsany, Lord. *Tales of Three Hemispheres. Luce.

Easton, Dorothy. *Golden Bird. Knopf.

Evans, Caradoc. *My Neighbors. Harcourt, Brace, & Howe.

Galsworthy, John. *Tatterdemalion. Scribner.

Graves, Clotilde. See "Dehan, Richard."

Grogan, Gerald. William Pollok. Lane.

Hardy, Thomas. *Two Wessex Tales. Four Seas.

Hichens, Robert. Snake-bite. Doran.

Hutten, Baroness Von. See Von Hutten, Baroness.

Huxley, Aldous. *Limbo. Doran.

James, Montague Rhodes. *Thin Ghost. Longmans.

Jeffery, Jeffery E. Side Issues. Seltzer.

Kipling, Rudyard. *Man Who Would Be King. Four Seas.

Lipscomb, W. P. Staff Tales. Dutton.

New Decameron: Second Day. McBride.

O'Kelly, Seumas. *Golden Barque, and the Weaves's Grave. Putnam.

"Ross, Martin." See "Somerville, E. Œ.," and "Ross, Martin."

Sabatini, Rafael. Historical Nights' Entertainment, Second Series. Lippincott.

"Somerville, E. Œ.," and "Ross, Martin," Stray-Aways. Longmans, Green.

"Trevena, John." *By Violence. Four Seas.

Vernède, R. E. Port Allington Stories. Doran.

Von Hutten, Baroness. Helping Hersey. Doran.

Wylie, Ida Alena Ross. *Holy Fire. Lane.

III. Translations

"Aleichem, Shalom." (Yiddish.) *Jewish Children. Knopf.

Andreiev, Leonid. (Russian.) *When the King Loses His Head. International Bk. Pub.

Andreiev, Leonid, and others. (Russian.) *Modern Russian Classics. Four Seas.

Annunzio, Gabriele D'. (Italian.) *Tales of My Native Town. Doubleday, Page.

Blasco Ibáñez, Vicente. (Spanish.) *Last Lion. Four Seas.

Brown, Demetra Vaka, and Phoutrides, Aristides, trs. (Modern Greek.) *Modern Greek Stories. Duffield.

Chekhov, Anton. (Russian.) *Chorus Girl. Macmillan.

Clémenceau, Georges. (French.) *Surprises of Life. Doubleday, Page.

Coster, Charles de. (French.) *Flemish Legends. Stokes.

Dostoevsky, Fedor Mikhailovich. (Russian.) *Honest Thief. Macmillan.

Friedlander, Gerald, ed. and tr. (Hebrew.) Jewish Fairy Tales and Stories. Dutton.

Hrbkova, Sarka B., editor. (Czecho-Slovak.) *Czecho-Slovak Stories. Dutton.

Jacobsen, Jens Peter. (Danish.) *Mogens. Brown.

Level, Maurice. (French.) *Tales of Mystery and Horror. McBride.

McMichael, Charles B., translator. (Spanish.) *Short Stories from the Spanish. Boni & Liveright.

Maupassant, Guy de. (French.) *Mademoiselle Fifi. Four Seas.

Mayran, Camille. (French.) *Story of Gotton Connixloo. Dutton.

Pérez de Ayala, Ramón. (Spanish.) *Prometheus. Dutton.

Ragozin, Z. A., editor. (Russian.) *Little Russian Masterpieces. 4 vol. Putnam.

VOLUMES OF SHORT STORIES PUBLISHED IN ENGLAND AND IRELAND ONLY

I. English and Irish

Andrew, Emily. Happiness in the Valley. Charles Joscelyn.

Barr, Robert. Helping Hand. Mills and Boon.
Tales of Two Continents. Mills and Boon.

Beerbohm, Max. *And Even Now. Heinemann.

Calthrop, Dion Clayton. *Bit at a Time. Mills and Boon.

Cole, Sophie. Variety Entertainment. Mills and Boon.

Conyers, Dorothea. Irish Stew. Skeffington.

Cross, Victoria. Daughters of Heaven. Laurie.

Drury, W. P. All the King's Men. Chapman and Hall.

Evans, C. S. Nash and Some Others. Heinemann.

Everard, Mrs. H. D. Death Mask. Philip Allan.

Forster, E. M. *Story of the Siren. Hogarth Press.

Frampton, Mary. Forty Years On. Arrowsmith.

Garvice, Charles. Girl at the "Bacca" Shop. Skeffington.

Gaunt, Mary. Surrender, Laurie.

Gibbon, Perceval. *Those Who Smiled. Cassell.

Green, Peter. Our Kid. Arnold.

Grimshaw, Beatrice. Coral Palace. Mills and Boon.

Harvey, William Fryer. Misadventures of Athelstan Digby. Swarthmore Press.

Howard, F. Moreton. Happy Rascals. Methuen.

Key, Uel. Broken Fang. Hodder and Stoughton.

Knowlson, T. Sharper. Man Who Would Not Grow Old. Laurie.

Leo, T. O. D. C. Two Feasts of St. Agnes. Morland.

Le Queux, William. Mysteries of a Great City. Hodder and Stoughton.

McGuffin, William. Australian Tales of the Border. Lothian Book Pub. Co.

Mansfield, Katherine. *Je Ne Parle Pas Français. Heron Press.
*Prelude. Hogarth Press.

Mayne, Ethel Colburn. *Blindman. Chapman and Hall.

Mordaunt, Elinor. *Old Wine in New Bottles. Hutchinson.

Muir, Ward. Adventures in Marriage. Simpkin, Marshall.

Newham, C. E. Gippo. W. P. Spalding.

Newman, F. J. Romance and Law in the Divorce Court. Melrose.

O'Kelly, Seumas. *Leprechaun of Killmeen. Martin Lester.

Palmer, Arnold. *My Profitable Friends. Selwyn and Blount.

Paterson, A. B. Three Elephant Power. Australian Book Co.

Riley, W. Yorkshire Suburb. Jenkins.

Robins, Elizabeth. Mills of the Gods. Butterworth.

Robinson, Lennox. *Eight Short Stories. Talbot Press.

"Sea-Pup." Musings of a Martian. Heath Cranton.

Shorter, Dora Sigerson. *Dull Day in London. Nash.

Smith, Logan Pearsall. *Stories from the Old Testament. Hogarth Press.

Stein, Gertrude. *Three Lives. Lane.

Stock, Ralph. Beach Combings. Pearson.

Taylor, Joshua. Lure of the Links. Heath Cranton.

Warrener, Marcus and Violet. House of Transformations. Epworth Press.

Wicksteed, Hilda. Titch. Swarthmore Press.

Wilderhope, John. Arch Fear. Murray and Evenden.

Wildridge, Oswald. *Clipper Folk. Blackwood.

Woolf, Virginia. *Mark on the Wall. Hogarth Press.

II. Translations

Chekhov, Anton. (Russian.) *My Life. Daniel.

Kuprin, Alexander. (Russian.) *Sasha. Paul.

Lemaître, Jules. (French.) *Serenus. Selwyn and Blount.

VOLUMES OF SHORT STORIES PUBLISHED IN FRANCE

Ageorges, Joseph. Contes sereins. Figuière.

Arcos, René. *Bien commun. Le Sablier.

Boylesve, René. *Nymphes dansant avec des satyres. Calmann-Lévy.

"Farrĕre, Claude." Dernière déesse. Flammarion.

Geffroy, Gustave. Nouveaux contes du pays d'Quest. Crès.

Géniaux, Charles. Mes voisins de campagne. Flammarion.

Ginisty, Paul. *Terreur. Société anonyme d'édition.

Herold, A. Ferdinand. *Guirlande d'Aphrodite. Edition d'Art.

Hesse, Raymond. Bouzigny! Payot.

Hirsch, Charles-Henry. Craquement. Flammarion.

Lautrec, Gabriel de. Histoires de Tom Joé. Edition française illustrée.

Le Glay, Maurice. Récits marocains. Berger-Levrault.

Machard, Alfred. *Cent Gosses. Flammarion.
*Syndicat des fessés. Ferenczi.

Marie, Jacques. Sous l'armure. Jouve.

Mille, Pierre. *Nuit d'amour sur la montagne. Flammarion.
*Trois femmes. Calmann-Lévy.

Pillon, Marcel. Contes à ma cousine. Figuière.

Pottecher, Maurice. Joyeux Contes de la Cicogne d'Alsace. Ollendorff.

"Rachilde." *Découverte de l'Amérique. Kundig.

Régnier, Henri de. *Histories incertaines. Mercure de France.

Rhaïs, Elissa. *Café chantant. Plon.

Rochefoucauld, Gabriel de la. *Mari Calomnié. Plon-Nourrit.

Russo, Luigi Libero. Contes à la cigogne. 2e série. Messein.

Sarcey, Yvonne. Pour vivre heureux.

Sutton, Maurice. Contes retrouvés. Edit. Formosa. Bruxelles.

Tisserand, Ernest. Contes de la popote. Crès.

Villiers de l'Isle-Adam. *Nouveaux Contes Cruels. Crès.

ARTICLES ON THE SHORT STORY

OCTOBER, 1919, TO SEPTEMBER, 1920

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