_Atlantic Narratives_ (First and second series), edited with an Introduction by _Charles Swain Thomas_ (The Atlantic Monthly Press). These two volumes are a well chosen selection from the rich store of short stories published in the Atlantic Monthly during the past few years. Edited for college and high school use, the second series is specially adapted to younger readers. Speaking generally, I should say that these collections would be of more use in classes in English narrative than in short story classes, but my personal emphasis would be on the special pleasure they will give the general reader, who will find such old favorites as “Little Selves” by Mary Lerner, “In No Strange Land” by Katharine Butler, “The Garden of Memories” by C. A. Mercer, and “Babanchik” by Christina Krysto reprinted in a format which is a delight to the eye. It would be pleasant if these collections should prove to be the forerunners of an annual series of Atlantic stories. _The Rose-Bush of a Thousand Years_, by _Mabel Wagnalls_ (Funk & Wagnalls Company). When the first part of this book was published in a magazine during 1916 its story value instantly attracted my attention, and later it became familiar to a wider public through the screen version in which Madame Nazimova took the principal part. The present reprint has been long called for, and would have gained if the crude and inartistic second part had been omitted. It forms no essential part of the story and is clearly an addition dictated by supposed moving picture demands. _A Book of Short Stories_, edited by _Blanche Colton Williams_ (D. Appleton and Company). This collection of thirteen stories for high schools is an admirable collection along well-trodden paths, and to it is added a wealth of biographical and critical material, well-ordered and clearly exposed. The general reader will wish to have the volume on his shelves, because it renders accessible for the first time in book form Major Frederick Stuart Greene’s remarkable story, “Molly McGuire, Fourteen.” It is the finest testimony I know of the quality of Dr. Williams’ teaching that a pupil of hers should have produced so notable a story in her classrooms. _A Gray Dream_, by _Laura Wolcott_ (Yale University Press). This collection of short stories and reminiscences has all the quiet glow of Indian summer, dreaming over the past with serene conviction and an unconquerable youth of the spirit. The best that New England Puritanism had to reveal is chronicled in these stories, which will remind more than one reader of Emily Dickinson. They have a finished style which achieves its end without undue pomp and circumstance.