1. BERESFORD. Signs and Wonders. Golden Cockerel Press. 2. CORKERY. Hounds of Banba. Talbot Press. 3. FISHER. Romantic Man. Secker. 4. LYONS. MARKET BUNDLE. Butterworth. 5. MCCALLIN. Ulster Fireside Tales. Heath Cranton. 6. MACKLIN, _translator_. 29 Short Stories. Philpot. 7. MOORMAN. Tales of the Ridings. Mathews. 8. MOORMAN. More Tales of the Ridings. Mathews. 9. STEIN. Three Lives. Lane. 10. WOOLF. Monday or Tuesday. Hogarth Press. BELOW FOLLOWS A RECORD OF THIRTY DISTINCTIVE VOLUMES PUBLISHED BETWEEN OCTOBER 1, 1920 AND SEPTEMBER 30, 1921. I. AMERICAN AUTHORS GHITZA AND OTHER ROMANCES OF GYPSY BLOOD, by _Konrad Bercovici_ (Boni & Liveright). This is the best volume of short stories published by an American author this year. It consists of nine epic fragments which are studies in passionate color of Roumanian gypsy life. Mr. Bercovici's work bears no trace of special literary influences, and he has moulded a new form for these stories which disobeys successfully all the codes of story writing. Whether we are to regard him as an American or a European artist seems of little importance. The essential point is that he and Sherwood Anderson are the most significant new short story writers who have emerged in America within the past five years. HOMESPUN AND GOLD, by _Alice Brown_ (The Macmillan Company). Miss Brown's new collection of fifteen short stories, which she has written during the past thirteen years, is not one of her best books, but it is of considerable importance as one more contribution to the literature of New England regionalism. Its qualities of homely fidelity and quiet humor make it distinctly worth reading, and one story, "White Pebbles" ranks with Miss Brown's best work. THE VELVET BLACK, by _Richard Washburn Child_ (E.P. Dutton & Company). I do not regard this as more than a piece of extremely competent craftsmanship, and its interest to the man of letters is largely technical, but it contains one excellent story full of dramatic suspense and a certain literary honesty. I think "Identified" might be commended to a short story anthologist. THE SONS O' CORMAC, AN' TALES OF OTHER MEN'S SONS, by _Aldis Dunbar_ (E.P. Dutton & Company). This collection of fifteen Irish fairy and hero tales, told by a gardener to a little boy, show considerable deftness of fancy, and although the idiom Mr. Dunbar uses is borrowed and not quite convincing, his book seems to me almost as good as those of Seumas MacManus, which probably suggested it. GREAT SEA STORIES (Brentano's) and MASTERPIECES OF MYSTERY (4 vols.) (Doubleday, Page & Co.), edited by _Joseph Lewis French_. These anthologies, which are somewhat casually edited, are worthy of purchase by students of the short story who do not possess many anthologies, for they contain a number of standard texts. But I do not think highly of the selections, which are of a thoroughly conventional nature.