er's_, December).

Street, Julian, A Voice in the Hall (_Harper's_, September).

Stringer, Arthur, A Lion Must Eat (_McClure's_, March).

Tupper, Tristram, Grit (_Metropolitan_, March).

Vorse, Mary Heaton, The Halfway House (_Harper's_, October).

Wolff, William Almon, Thalassa! Thalassa! (_Everybody's_, July).

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The following stories rank high with a majority of the Committee:

Anthony, Joseph, A Cask of Ale for Columban (_Century_, March).

Baker, Karle Wilson, The Porch Swing (_Century_, April).

Balmer, Edwin, "Settled Down" (_Everybody's_, February).

Beer, Thomas, Addio (_Saturday Evening Post_, October 29); The Lily
Pond (_Saturday Evening Post_, April 16).

Biggs, John, Jr., Corkran of the Clamstretch (_Scribner's_, December).

Boulton, Agnes, The Snob (_Smart Set_, June).

Boyle, Jack, The Heart of the Lily (_Red Book_, February); The Little
Lord of All the Earth (_Red Book_, March).

Byrne, Donn, The Keeper of the Bridge (_McClure's_, April).

Canfield, Dorothy, Pamela's Shawl (_Century_, August).

Connell, Richard, The Man in the Cape (_Metropolitan_, July).

Cooper, Courtney Ryley, The Fiend (_Cosmopolitan_, March); Love (_Red
Book_, June).

Cram, Mildred, Anna (_McCatt's_, March); The Bridge (_Harper's
Bazaar_, April).

Derieux, Samuel A., Figgers Can't Lie (_Delineator_, April); The
Bolter (_American_, November).

Dreiser, Theodore, Phantom Gold (_Live Stories_, March).

Ellerbe, Alma and Paul, When the Ice Went Out (_Everybody's_, May).

England, George Allan, Test Tubes (_Short Stories_, March).

Erickson, Howard, The Debt (_Munsey's_, February).

Fraenkel, H. E., The Yellow Quilt (_Liberator_, December).

Ginger, Bonnie, The Decoy (_Century_, October).

Hart, Frances Noyes, The American (_Pictorial Review_, November).

Hergesheimer, Joseph, Juju (_Saturday Evening Post_, July 30); The
Token (_Saturday Evening Post_, October 22).

Hopper, Elsie Van de Water, The Flight of the Herons (_Scribner's_,
November).

Hughes, Rupert, When Crossroads Cross Again (_Collier's_, January 29).

Hurst, Fannie, She Walks in Beauty (_Cosmopolitan_, August).

Irwin, Inez Haynes, For Value Received (_Cosmopolitan_, November).

Irwin, Wallace, The Old School (_Pictorial Review_, April).

Kabler, Hugh MacNair, Like a Tree (_Saturday Evening Post_) January
22).

Lanier, Henry Wysham, Circumstantial (_Collier's_, October 15).

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