_The following table includes the averages of distinctive stories
in certain American periodicals published from October, 1921, to
September, 1922, inclusive. One, two and three asterisks are employed
to indicate relative distinction. “Three-asterisk stories” are of
somewhat permanent literary value. The list excludes reprints._
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| | NO. OF | PERCENTAGE
| NO. OF | DISTINCTIVE | OF DISTINCTIVE
PERIODICALS | STORIES | STORIES | STORIES
(OCT.-SEPT.) |PUBLISHED| PUBLISHED | PUBLISHED
| +----+----+----+-----+-----+----
| | * | ** | ***| * | ** | ***
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Asia | 10 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 90 | 60 | 10
Atlantic Monthly | 26 | 23 | 16 | 7 | 88 | 62 | 27
Broom | 23 | 20 | 16 | 10 | 87 | 69 | 43
Century | 42 | 39 | 32 | 17 | 93 | 76 | 40
Collier’s Weekly | 109 | 18 | 3 | 1 | 17 | 3 | 1
Delineator | 40 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 28 | 10 | 8
Dial | 22 | 22 | 21 | 14 | 100 | 95 | 64
Double Dealer | 21 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 57 | 38 | 10
Everybody’s Magazine | 66 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 3 | 2
Good Housekeeping | 44 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 14 | 7 | 2
Harper’s Magazine | 44 | 39 | 23 | 14 | 89 | 52 | 32
Hearst’s International | 63 | 18 | 4 | 1 | 29 | 6 | 2
Ladies’ Home Journal | 42 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 19 | 7 | 5
McClure’s Magazine | | | | | | |
(March-September) | 46 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 28 | 4 | 2
Metropolitan | 87 | 17 | 9 | 6 | 19 | 10 | 7
Pictorial Review | 65 | 44 | 31 | 22 | 66 | 48 | 33
Red Book Magazine | 115 | 27 | 4 | 2 | 24 | 4 | 2
Saturday Evening Post | 245 | 34 | 14 | 7 | 14 | 6 | 3
Scribner’s Magazine | 52 | 37 | 19 | 7 | 71 | 37 | 14
Smart Set | 127 | 44 | 9 | 5 | 35 | 7 | 4
World Fiction | | | | | | |
(August-September) | 22 | 21 | 11 | 5 | 95 | 50 | 23
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_The following tables indicate the rank, during the period between
October, 1921, and September, 1922, inclusive, by number and
percentage of distinctive short stories published, of eighteen
periodicals coming within the scope of my examination which have
published an average of 15 per cent or more of distinctive stories.
The lists exclude reprints, but not translations._