_The following table includes the averages of all American periodicals
published during 1916 of which complete files for the period covered
were placed at my disposal. 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 | NO. OF | PERCENTAGE OF
| STORIES | DISTINCTIVE | DISTINCTIVE
| PUBLISHED | STORIES | STORIES
PERIODICALS | | PUBLISHED | PUBLISHED
| |----+----+-----+-----+-----+---
| | * | ** | *** | * | ** |***
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American Magazine | 64 | 31 | 13 | 1 | 48 | 20 | 2
American Sunday Magazine | 33 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 0
Atlantic Monthly | 17 | 13 | 9 | 2 | 76 | 53 | 12
Bellman | 35 | 24 | 11 | 7 | 69 | 31 | 20
Black Cat | 108 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1
Boston Evening Transcript | 6 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 100 | 83 | 33
Century Magazine | 59 | 45 | 32 | 16 | 76 | 55 | 27
Chimaera | 5 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 80 | 40 | 0
Collier’s Weekly | 131 | 45 | 18 | 8 | 34 | 14 | 6
Craftsman | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 75 | 25 | 0
Delineator | 36 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 33 | 3 | 0
Everybody’s Magazine | 36 | 23 | 9 | 4 | 64 | 25 | 11
Every Week | 90 | 26 | 10 | 2 | 29 | 11 | 2
Forum | 9 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 100 | 56 | 33
Good Housekeeping | 40 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 15 | 8 | 8
Harper’s Bazar | 22 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 27 | 9 | 0
Harper’s Magazine | 95 | 65 | 28 | 13 | 68 | 29 | 14
Harper’s Weekly | 7 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 71 | 14 | 0
Hearst’s Magazine | 61 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 3 | 0
Illustrated Sunday Magazine| 49 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 22 | 6 | 4
International | 22 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 55 | 23 | 5
Ladies’ Home Journal | 51 | 17 | 5 | 4 | 33 | 10 | 8
Life | 26 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 34 | 0 | 0
Little Review | 6 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 83 | 50 | 33
McBride’s Magazine | 36 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 19 | 8 | 3
McClure’s Magazine | 59 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 20 | 14 | 3
Masses | 29 | 19 | 8 | 1 | 66 | 28 | 4
Metropolitan | 40 | 23 | 14 | 4 | 58 | 35 | 10
Midland | 16 | 16 | 9 | 4 | 100 | 56 | 25
Munsey’s Magazine | 65 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0
National Sunday Magazine | 22 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 32 | 9 | 0
New Republic | 11 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 72 | 18 | 0
New York Tribune | 47 | 38 | 14 | 4 | 81 | 30 | 9
Outlook | 10 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 80 | 60 | 30
Pagan | 13 | 12 | 10 | 5 | 92 | 77 | 38
Pictorial Review | 57 | 22 | 15 | 3 | 39 | 26 | 23
Red Book Magazine | 138 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 1
Reedy’s Mirror | 24 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 37 | 4 | 0
Russian Review | 16 | 16 | 14 | 9 | 100 | 88 | 56
Saturday Evening Post | 203 | 48 | 20 | 7 | 24 | 10 | 3
Scribner’s Magazine | 55 | 44 | 27 | 9 | 80 | 49 | 16
Seven Arts | 6 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 100 | 67 | 67
Smart Set | 170 | 24 | 11 | 4 | 14 | 6 | 2
Southern Woman’s Magazine | 30 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 33 | 20 | 7
Stratford Journal | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 100 |100 |100
Sunset Magazine | 27 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 0 | 0
Trimmed Lamp | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 50 | 25 | 0
Woman’s Home Companion | 47 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 21 | 4 | 0
Youth’s Companion | 146 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 0
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_The following tables indicate the rank, during 1916, by number and
percentage of distinctive stories published, of the twenty-two
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._