(34) _Chekhov, Anton._ (_Russian._) *Overspiced. *Scandal Monger. *Vengeance. *Who Was She? *Work of Art _Crussol, M._ (_French._) Love in War Time. _Daudet, Alphonse._ (_French._) *Last Lesson. _Efimovich, L._ (_Russian._) *Early Spring. (3) “_Gorki, Maxim._” (_Russian._) *Makar Chudra. *Man Who Could Not Die. _Jaloux, Edmond._ (_French._) *Vagabond. _Mauclair, Camille._ (_French._) Inner Man. _Stronny, Vladimir._ (_Russian._) *Father and Son. _Villiers de l’Isle-Adam._ (_French._) *Heroism of Doctor Halidonhill. THE BEST BOOKS OF SHORT STORIES OF 1918: A CRITICAL SUMMARY _The Ten Best American Books._ 1. Bierce. Can Such Things Be? Boni & Liveright. 2. Bierce. In the Midst of Life. Boni & Liveright. 3. Brown. The Flying Teuton. Macmillan. 4. Burt. John O’May. Scribner. 5. Hergesheimer. Gold and Iron. Knopf. 6. Hughes. Long Ever Ago. Harper. 7. Hurst. Gaslight Sonatas. Harper. 8. Steele. Land’s End. Harper. 9. Wolcott. A Gray Dream. Yale. 10. Wormser. The Scarecrow. Dutton. _The Ten Best English Books._ 1. Blackwood. The Empty House. Dutton. 2. Blackwood. John Silence. Dutton. 3. Blackwood. The Listener. Dutton. 4. Blackwood. The Lost Valley. Dutton. 5. Buchan. The Watcher by the Threshold. Doran. 6. Galsworthy. Five Tales. Scribner. 7. Harker. Children of the Dear Cotswolds. Scribner. 8. Jacks. The Country Air. Holt. 9. Phillpotts. Chronicles of Saint Tid. Macmillan. 10. Sélincourt. Nine Tales. Dodd, Mead. _The Ten Best Translations._ 1. Andreyev. The Seven That Were Hanged. Boni & Liveright. 2. Barbusse. We Others. Dutton. 3. Chekhov. The Wife. Macmillan. 4. Chekhov. The Witch. Macmillan. 5. Dantchenko. Peasant Tales of Russia. McBride. 6. Dostoevsky. White Nights. Macmillan. 7. Gogol. Taras Bulba. Dutton. 8. Gorky. Creatures That Once Were Men. Boni & Liveright. 9. Gorky. Stories of the Steppe. Stratford. 10. Tagore. Mashi. Macmillan. _Below follows a record of eighty-seven distinctive volumes published during 1918, before November first._ I. _American Authors_ _Her Country_, by _Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews_ (Charles Scribner’s Sons). In this short story by Mrs. Andrews there is a fine emotional quality, and the spiritual values, though nowhere overstressed, will remind the reader of “The Perfect Tribute,” which still remains Mrs. Andrews’ best story. Written to assist the last Liberty Bond campaign, its significant interest is independent of its timeliness.