number and
percentage of distinctive stories published, of the eighteen periodicals
coming within the scope of my examination which have published during
the past year over twenty-five stories and which have exceeded an
average of 15% in stories of distinction. The lists exclude reprints._

BY PERCENTAGE OF DISTINCTIVE STORIES

1. Scribner's Magazine 71%
2. Century Magazine 60%
3. Harper's Magazine 56%
4. Metropolitan 51%
5. Bellman 51%
6. American Magazine 43%
7. Lippincott's and McBride's Magazines 36%
8. McClure's Magazine 35%
9. Collier's Weekly 32%
10. Sunset Magazine 31%
11. Every Week 30%
12. Everybody's Magazine 28%
13. Illustrated Sunday Magazine 27%
14. Associated Sunday Magazine 24%
(excluding Every Week)
15. Delineator 23%
16. Pictorial Review 22%
17. Ladies' Home Journal 19%
18. Saturday Evening Post 18%

BY NUMBER OF DISTINCTIVE STORIES

1. Harper's Magazine 56
2. Illustrated Sunday Magazine 46
3. Collier's Weekly 46
4. Scribner's Magazine 37
5. Lippincott's and McBride's Magazines 36
6. Century Magazine 32
7. Saturday Evening Post 29
8. Metropolitan 24
9. American Magazine 23
10. Every Week 23
11. McClure's Magazine 22
12. Bellman 20
13. Pictorial Review 15
14. Sunset Magazine 13
15. Everybody's Magazine 13
16. Associated Sunday Magazine
(excluding Every Week) 9
17. Ladies' Home Journal 8
18. Delineator 7

_The following periodicals have published during 1915 ten or more
"two-asterisk stories." The list excludes reprints._

1. Harper's Magazine 28
2. Scribner's Magazine 24
3. Collier's Weekly 21
4. Illustrated Sunday Magazine 15
5. Centur