#Short Stories from the Balkans#; translated by _Edna Worthley Underwood_ (Marshall Jones Company). This volume should be set beside the collection of "Czecho-Slovak Stories," which I have mentioned on an earlier page. Here will be found further stories by Jan Neruda and Svatopluk Čech, together with a remarkable group of stories by Rumanian, Serbian, Croatian, and Hungarian authors. Neruda emerges as the greatest artist of them all, and one of the greatest artists in Europe, but special attention should be called also to the Czech writer Vrchlický, the Rumanian Caragiale, and the Hungarian Mikszáth. The translation seems competently done. #Modern Greek Stories#; translated by _Demetra Vaka_ and _Aristides Phoutrides_ (Duffield and Company). While this collection reveals no such undoubted master as Jan Neruda, it is an extremely interesting introduction to an equally unknown literature. Seven of the nine stories are of great literary value, and perhaps the best of these is "Sea" by A. Karkavitsas. Romaic fiction still bears the marks of a young tradition, and each new writer would seem to be compelled to strike out more or less completely for himself. Consequently it is necessary to allow more than usual for technical inadequacy, but the substance of most of these stories is sufficiently remarkable to justify us in wishing a further introduction to Romaic literature. VOLUMES OF SHORT STORIES PUBLISHED IN THE UNITED STATES OCTOBER, 1919, TO SEPTEMBER, 1920: AN INDEX #Note.# _An asterisk before a title indicates distinction. This list includes single short stories, collections of short stories, and a few continuous narratives based on short stories previously published in magazines. Volumes announced for publication in the autumn of 1920 are listed here, though in some cases they had not yet appeared at the time this book went to press._ I. #American Authors# #Abdullah, Achmed.# *Wings. McCann. #Abdullah, Achmed#, _and others._ Ten Foot Chain. Reynolds. #Ade, George.# Home Made Fables. Doubleday, Page. #Anderson, Emma Maria Thompson.# A 'Chu. Review and Herald Pub. Assn. #Anderson, Robert Gordon.# Seven O'clock Stories. Putnam. #Barbour, Ralph Henry.# Play That Won. Appleton. #Benneville, James Seguin De.# Tales of the Tokugawa. Reilly. #Bishop, William Henry.# Anti-Babel. Neale. #Boyer, Wilbur S.# Johnnie Kelly. Houghton Mifflin. #Bridges, Victor.# Cruise of the "Scandal." Putnam. #Brown, Alice.# *Homespun and Gold. Macmillan. #Butler, Ellis Parker.# Swatty. Houghton Mifflin. #Carroll, P. J.# Memory Sketches. School Plays Pub. Co. #Cather, Willa Sibert.# *Youth and the Bright Medusa. Knopf. #Chambers, Robert W.# Slayer of Souls. Doran. #Cohen, Octavus Roy.# Come Seven. Dodd, Mead. #Comfort, Will Levington#, and #Dost, Zamin Ki.# Son of Power. Doubleday, Page. #Connolly, James B.# *Hiker Joy. Scribner. "#Crabb, Arthur.#" Samuel Lyle, Criminologist. Century Co. #Cram, Mildred.# Lotus Salad. Dodd, Mead.