_The following table includes the averages of American periodicals
published from October, 1919, to September, 1920, 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 OF
| NO. OF |DISTINCTIVE| DISTINCTIVE
PERIODICALS | STORIES | STORIES | STORIES
(OCT.-SEPT.) |PUBLISHED | PUBLISHED | PUBLISHED
| |___________|_____________
| | | | | | |
| | * | **|***| * | **|***
_________________________________|__________|___|___|___|___|___|_____
| | | | | | |
Atlantic Monthly | 19 | 18| 15| 11| 95| 78| 58
Century | 43 | 36| 25| 12| 84| 56| 28
Collier's Weekly | 97 | 24| 8| 4| 25| 8| 4
Cosmopolitan | 75 | 17| 7| 3| 23| 9| 4
Dial (including translations) | 19 | 19| 15| 11|100| 78| 58
Everybody's Magazine (including | | | | | | |
translations) | 75 | 23| 7| 0| 31| 9| 0
Harper's Magazine | 57 | 43| 32| 15| 75| 56| 26
Hearst's Magazine (including | | | | | | |
translations) | 76 | 17| 6| 4| 22| 8| 5
McCall's Magazine (including | | | | | | |
translations) | 41 | 15| 7| 3| 37| 17| 7
McClure's Magazine (including | | | | | | |
translations) | 53 | 24| 16| 13| 45| 30| 25
Metropolitan | 78 | 20| 12| 6| 26| 15| 8
Midland | 13 | 11| 11| 8| 85| 85| 62
Munsey's Magazine | 83 | 14| 5| 2| 17| 6| 2
New York Tribune (including | | | | | | |
translations) | 48 | 31| 5| 1| 63| 11| 2
Pagan (including translations) | 21 | 10| 8| 6| 50| 40| 30
Pictorial Review | 46 | 30| 28| 25| 65| 61| 54
Red Book Magazine | 117 | 17| 4| 2| 15| 4| 2
Reedy's Mirror (including | | | | | | |
translations) | 30 | 16| 8| 4| 53| 27| 13
Romance | 89 | 23| 6| 1| 26| 7| 1
Scribner's Magazine | 51 | 36| 23| 10| 72| 46| 20
Smart Set (including | | | | | | |
translations) | 127 | 51| 25| 14| 40| 20| 11
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_The following tables indicate the rank, during the period between
October, 1919, and September, 1920, inclusive, by number and percentage
of distinctive stories published, of the twenty-one periodicals coming
within the scope of my examination which have published an average of 15
per cent in stories of distinction. The lists exclude reprints, but not
translations._
#By Percentage of Distinctive Stories#
1. Dial (including translations) 100%
2. Atlantic Monthly 95%
3. Midland 85%
4. Century 84%
5. Harper's Magazine 75%
6. Scribner's Magazine 72%
7. Pictorial Review 65%
8. New York Tribune (including translations) 63%
9. Reedy's Mirror (including translations) 53%
10. Pagan (including translations) 50%
11. McClure's Magazine (including translations) 45%
12. Smart Set (including translations) 40%
13. McCall's Magazine (including translations) 37%
14. Everybody's Magazine (including translations) 31%
15. Romance 26%
16. Metropolitan 26%
17. Collier's Weekly 25%
18. Cosmopolitan 23%
19. Hearst's Magazine (including translations) 22%
20. Munsey's Magazine 17%
21. Red Book Magazine 15%
#By Number of Distinctive Stories#
1. Smart Set (including translations) 51
2. Harper's Magazine 43
3. Century 36
4. Scribner's Magazine 36
5. New York Tribune (including translations) 31
6. Pictorial Review 30
7. McClure's Magazine (including translations) 24
8. Collier's Weekly 24
9. Everybody's Magazine (including translations) 23
10. Romance 23
11. Metropolitan 20
12. Dial (including translations) 19
13. Atlantic Monthly 18
14. Cosmopolitan 17
15. Hearst's Magazine (including translations) 17
16. Red Book Magazine 17
17. Reedy's Mirror (including translations) 16
18. McCall's Magazine (including translations) 15
19. Munsey's Magazine 14
20. Midland 11
21. Pagan (including translations) 10
_The following periodicals have published during the same period ten or
more "two-asterisk stories." The list excludes reprints, but not
translations. Periodicals represented in this list during 1915, 1916,
1917, 1918 and 1919 are represented by the prefixed letters a, b, c, d,
and e respectively._
1. abcde Harper's Magazine 32
2. bcde Pictorial Review 28
3. abcde Century 25
4. abcde Smart Set (including translations) 25
5. abcde Scribner's Magazine 23
6. McClure's Magazine (including translations) 16
7. Dial (including translations) 15
8. cde Atlantic Monthly 15
9. be Metropolitan 12
10. c Midland 11
_The following periodicals have published during the same period five or
more "three-asterisk stories." The list excludes reprints, but not
translations. The same signs are used as prefixes as in the previous
list._
1. acde Pictorial Review 25
2. abcde Harper's Magazine 15
3. de Smart Set (including translations) 14
4. McClure's Magazine (including translations) 13
5. abcde Century 12
6. Dial (including translations) 11
7. cde Atlantic Monthly 11
8. abcde Scribner's Magazine 10
9. ae Midland 8
10. ace Metropolitan 6
11. be Pagan (including translations) 6
_Ties in the above lists have been decided by taking relative rank in
other lists into account._