_McPherson, William_, _editor_. (_French._) *Tales of Wartime France. Dodd, Mead. _Maupassant, Guy de._ (_French._) *Mademoiselle Fifi. Four Seas. *Selected Short Stories. Current Literature Pub. Co. _Mendés, Catulle._ (_French._) *Fairy Spinning Wheel. Four Seas. _Mijatovich, Elodie L._, _translator_. (_Serbian._) *Serbian Fairy Tales. McBride. *_Modern Russian Classics._ (_Russian._) (Stories by Andreyev, Sologub, Gorky, Chekhov, and Artzibashev.) Four Seas. _Nemirovitch-dantchenko, V. I._ (_Russian._) _See_ _Dantchenko, V. I. Nemirovitch-._ _Schweikert, Harry C._, _editor_. (_French._) *French Short Stories. Scott, Foresman. _Segovia, Gertrudis._ (_Spanish._) *Spanish Fairy Book. Stokes. “_Sologub, Feodor._” (_Feodor Kuzmitch Teternikov._) (_Russian._) _See_ Modern Russian Classics. _Tagore, Sir Rabindranath._ (_Bengali._) *Mashi, and Other Stories. Macmillan. _Taketomo, Torao_, _editor_. (_Japanese._) *Paulownia. Duffield. _Tchekhov, Anton._ (_Russian._) _See_ Chekhov, Anton. _Tolstoy, Lyof._ (_Russian._) *Death of Ivan Ilyitch, and Other Stories. Boni and Liveright. *What Men Live By. Stratford. _Underwood, Edna Worthley._ *Famous Stories from Foreign Countries. Four Seas. THE BEST SIXTY AMERICAN SHORT STORIES JANUARY TO OCTOBER, 1918: A CRITICAL SUMMARY _The sixty short stories published in the American magazines between January and October, 1918, which I shall discuss in this article are chosen from a larger group of about one hundred and twenty stories, whose literary excellence justifies me in including them in my annual “Roll of Honor.” The stories which are included in this Roll of Honor have been chosen from the stories published in seventy-four American periodicals during the first ten months of 1918. In selecting them I have sought to accept the author’s point of view and manner of treatment, and to measure simply his degree of success in accomplishing what he set out to achieve. I have permitted no personal preference or prejudice to influence my mind consciously for or against a story. But I must confess that it has been difficult to eliminate personal admiration completely in the further winnowing which has resulted in this selection of sixty stories. Below are set forth the particular qualities which have seemed to me to justify in each case the inclusion of a story in this list._