_The following table includes the averages of American periodicals
published during 1917. One, two, and three asterisks are employed to
indicate relative distinction. "Three-asterisk stories" are of somewhat
permanent literary value. The list excludes reprints._
| | NO. OF | PERCENTAGE OF
| NO. OF | DISTINCTIVE | DISTINCTIVE
PERIODICALS | STORIES | STORIES | STORIES
| PUB- | PUBLISHED | PUBLISHED
| LISHED +-----------------+----------------
| | * | ** | *** | * | ** | ***
------------------------------+---------+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+----
American Magazine | 54 | 25 | 3 | 1 | 46 | 6 | 2
Atlantic Monthly | 20 | 17 | 11 | 5 | 85 | 55 | 25
Bellman | 47 | 34 | 17 | 2 | 72 | 36 | 4
Bookman | 5 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 100 | 80 | 20
Boston Evening Transcript | 6 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 100 | 100 | 33
Century | 50 | 40 | 29 | 17 | 80 | 58 | 34
Collier's Weekly | 108 | 51 | 22 | 3 | 47 | 20 | 3
Delineator | 46 | 18 | 5 | 2 | 39 | 11 | 4
Everybody's Magazine | 45 | 26 | 7 | 3 | 58 | 15 | 7
Every Week | 87 | 18 | 5 | 2 | 21 | 6 | 2
Forum | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 67 | 17 | 17
Good Housekeeping | 40 | 12 | 9 | 5 | 30 | 23 | 13
Harper's Magazine | 80 | 64 | 39 | 27 | 80 | 49 | 34
Illustrated Sunday Magazine | 25 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 40 | 16 | 4
Ladies' Home Journal | 33 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 33 | 12 | 3
Masses (except Oct. and Nov.) | 11 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 54 | 27 | 0
McClure's Magazine | 45 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 20 | 9 | 4
Metropolitan | 43 | 16 | 8 | 5 | 37 | 19 | 12
Midland | 22 | 21 | 17 | 2 | 95 | 77 | 9
New Republic | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 100 | 40 | 20
New York Tribune | 30 | 22 | 7 | 4 | 73 | 23 | 13
Outlook | 18 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 56 | 44 | 6
Pagan | 11 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 72 | 72 | 36
Pictorial Review | 42 | 26 | 18 | 14 | 62 | 43 | 33
Reedy's Mirror | 32 | 18 | 10 | 3 | 56 | 31 | 9
Saturday Evening Post | 235 | 62 | 25 | 7 | 21 | 11 | 3
Scribner's Magazine | 65 | 52 | 31 | 16 | 80 | 48 | 25
Seven Arts | 23 | 22 | 19 | 14 | 96 | 83 | 69
Smart Set | 107 | 22 | 12 | 3 | 20 | 11 | 3
Stratford Journal | 10 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 100 | 100 | 90
Sunset Magazine | 32 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 0
Touchstone | 15 | 15 | 10 | 2 | 100 | 67 | 13
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_The following tables indicate the rank, during 1917, by number and
percentage of distinctive stories published, of the nineteen periodicals
coming within the scope of my examination which have published during
the past year over twenty-five stories and which have exceeded an
average of 15% in stories of distinction. The lists exclude reprints._