1. #Aleichem.# Jewish Children. Knopf. 2. #Andreiev.# When the King Loses His Head. International Bk. Pub. 3. #Annunzio.# Tales of My Native Town. Doubleday, Page. 4. #Brown and Phoutrides#, _Editors._ Modern Greek Stories. Duffield. 5. #Chekhov.# The Chorus Girl. Macmillan. 6. #Dostoevsky.# The Honest Thief. Macmillan. 7. #Hrbkova#, _Editor._ Czecho-Slovak Stories. Duffield. 8. #Level.# Tales of Mystery and Horror. McBride. 9. #McMichael#, _Editor._ Short Stories from the Spanish. Boni & Liveright. 10. #Mayran.# Story of Gotton Connixloo. Dutton. #The Best New English Publications# 1. #Gibbon, Perceval.# Those Who Smiled. Cassell. 2. #Mayne, Ethel Colburn.# Blindman. Chapman and Hall. 3. #Mordaunt, Elinor.# Old Wine in New Bottles. Hutchinson. 4. #O'Kelly, Seumas.# The Leprechaun of Killmeen. Martin Lester. 5. #Robinson, Lennox.# Eight Short Stories. Talbot Press. 6. #Shorter, Dora Sigerson.# A Dull Day in London. Nash. 7. #Lemaître, Jules.# Serenus. Selwyn and Blount. BELOW FOLLOWS A RECORD OF NINETY-TWO DISTINCTIVE VOLUMES PUBLISHED BETWEEN NOVEMBER 1, 1918, AND OCTOBER 1, 1920. I. #American Authors# #The Honourable Gentlemen and Others# and #Wings: Tales of the Psychic#, by _Achmed Abdullah_ (G. P. Putnam's Sons, and the James A. McCann Company). In the first of these two volumes, Mr. Abdullah has gathered the Pell Street stories of New York's Chinatown which have appeared in American magazines during the past few years. As contrasted with Thomas Burke's "Limehouse Nights," these stories reflect the oriental point of view with its characteristic fatalism and equability of temper. Four of these stories are told with the utmost economy of means and a grim pleasure in watching events unshape themselves. "A Simple Act of Piety" seemed to me one of the best short stories of 1918. The other volume is of more uneven quality, and psychic stories do not furnish Mr. Abdullah with his most natural medium, but contains at least three admirable stories. #Hand-Made Fables#, by _George Ade._ (Doubleday, Page & Company.) Mr. Ade's new series of thirty fables are a valuable record of the war years in American life. They are written in a unique idiom full of color, if unintelligible to the foreigner. I think one may fairly say that Mr. Ade's work is thoroughly characteristic of a large section of American culture, and this section he has portrayed admirably. Undoubtedly he is our best satirist. #Joy in the Morning#, by _Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews_ (Charles Scribner's Sons). This uneven collection includes two admirable stories, "The Ditch" and "Dundonald's Destroyer," to which I drew attention when they first appeared in magazines. The latter is one of the best realized legends suggested by the war, while the former is technically interesting as a thoroughly successful short story written entirely in dialogue. The other stories are of slighter content, and emotionally somewhat overtaut.