Magazine Averages for 1919
The following table includes the averages of American periodicals published from November, 1918, to September, 1919, inclusive. One, two, and three asterisks are employed to indicate relative distinction. “Three-asterisk stories” are of somewhat permanent literary value. The list excludes reprints.
| Periodicals | No. of Stories Published | No. of Distictive Stories Published | Percentage of Distinctive Stories Published | ||||
| * | ** | *** | * | ** | *** | ||
| American Magazine (except September) | 43 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 19 | 7 | 2 |
| Atlantic Monthly | 19 | 17 | 12 | 7 | 89 | 63 | 37 |
| Bellman (Nov.-June) | 31 | 18 | 6 | 3 | 58 | 19 | 10 |
| Catholic World | 9 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 66 | 22 | 0 |
| Century | 35 | 28 | 20 | 11 | 80 | 57 | 32 |
| Collier’s Weekly | 114 | 29 | 10 | 0 | 25 | 9 | 0 |
| Cosmopolitan | 66 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 17 | 5 | 3 |
| Delineator | 40 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 23 | 3 | 0 |
| Everybody’s Magazine | 46 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 20 | 4 | 4 |
| Good Housekeeping | 30 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 30 | 20 | 10 |
| Harper’s Bazar | 33 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 30 | 21 | 12 |
| Harper’s Magazine | 60 | 50 | 36 | 19 | 83 | 60 | 32 |
| Hearst’s Magazine | 71 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 18 | 10 | 4 |
| Little Review (except July and September) | 9 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 100 | 100 | 72 |
| Metropolitan | 53 | 17 | 12 | 6 | 32 | 23 | 11 |
| Midland | 13 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 92 | 46 | 31 |
| New York Tribune | 70 | 33 | 16 | 8 | 47 | 23 | 11 |
| Pagan | 46 | 20 | 14 | 5 | 44 | 30 | 11 |
| Pictoral Review | 44 | 25 | 20 | 13 | 57 | 45 | 30 |
| Reedy’s Mirror | 25 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 32 | 16 | 8 |
| Saturday Evening Post | 308 | 51 | 19 | 8 | 17 | 6 | 3 |
| Scribner’s Magazine | 49 | 36 | 21 | 8 | 74 | 43 | 16 |
| Smart Set | 135 | 25 | 12 | 4 | 19 | 9 | 3 |
| Stratford Journal | 32 | 28 | 20 | 14 | 88 | 63 | 44 |
| To-day’s Housewife | 35 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 17 | 3 | 0 |
The following tables indicate the rank, during the period between November, 1918, and September, 1919, inclusive, by number and percentage of distinctive stories published, of the twenty-one periodicals coming within the scope of my examination which have published an average of 15 per cent in stories of distinction. The lists exclude reprints, but not translations.
| BY PERCENTAGE OF DISTINCTIVE STORIES | ||
| 1. | Stratford Journal (including translations) | 88% |
| 2. | Harper’s Magazine | 83% |
| 3. | Century | 80% |
| 4. | Scribner’s Magazine | 74% |
| 5. | Bellman (January-June) | 58% |
| 6. | Pictorial Review | 57% |
| 7. | New York Tribune (including translations) | 47% |
| 8. | Pagan (including translations) | 44% |
| 9. | Harper’s Bazar | 33% |
| 10. | Metropolitan | 32% |
| 11. | Reedy’s Mirror | 32% |
| 12. | Good Housekeeping | 30% |
| 13. | Collier’s Weekly | 25% |
| 14. | Delineator | 23% |
| 15. | Everybody’s Magazine | 20% |
| 16. | Smart Set | 19% |
| 17. | American Magazine (except September) | 19% |
| 18. | Hearst’s Magazine | 18% |
| 19. | Saturday Evening Post | 17% |
| 20. | Cosmopolitan | 17% |
| 21. | To-day’s Housewife | 17% |
| BY NUMBER OF DISTINCTIVE STORIES | ||
| 1. | Saturday Evening Post | 51 |
| 2. | Harper’s Magazine | 50 |
| 3. | Scribner’s Magazine | 36 |
| 4. | New York Tribune (including translations) | 33 |
| 5. | Collier’s Weekly | 29 |
| 6. | Stratford Journal (including translations) | 28 |
| 7. | Century | 28 |
| 8. | Pictorial Review | 25 |
| 9. | Smart Set | 25 |
| 10. | Pagan (including translations) | 20 |
| 11. | Bellman (January-June) | 18 |
| 12. | Metropolitan | 17 |
| 13. | Hearst’s Magazine | 13 |
| 14. | Cosmopolitan | 11 |
| 15. | Harper’s Bazar | 10 |
| 16. | Good Housekeeping | 9 |
| 17. | Delineator | 9 |
| 18. | Everybody’s Magazine | 9 |
| 19. | Reedy’s Mirror | 8 |
| 20. | American Magazine (excluding September) | 8 |
| 21. | To-day’s Housewife | 6 |
| The following periodicals have published during the same period eight or more “two-asterisk stories.” The list excludes reprints, but not translations. Periodicals represented in this list during 1915, 1916, 1917, and 1918 are represented by the prefixed letters a, b, c, and d respectively. | |||
| 1. | abcd | Harper’s Magazine | 36 |
| 2. | abcd | Scribner’s Magazine | 21 |
| 3. | d | Stratford Journal (including translations) | 20 |
| 4. | abcd | Century | 20 |
| 5. | bcd | Pictorial Review | 20 |
| 6. | abcd | Saturday Evening Post | 19 |
| 7. | bd | New York Tribune (including translations) | 16 |
| 8. | b | Pagan (including translations) | 14 |
| 9. | cd | Atlantic Monthly | 12 |
| 10. | b | Metropolitan | 12 |
| 11. | abcd | Smart Set | 12 |
| 12. | abcd | Collier’s Weekly | 10 |
| 13. | Little Review | 9 | |
The following periodicals have published during the same period four or more “three-asterisk stories.” The list excludes reprints, but not translations. The same signs are used as prefixes as in the previous list. | |||
| 1. | abcd | Harper’s Magazine | 19 |
| 2. | cd | Stratford Journal (including translations) | 14 |
| 3. | acd | Pictorial Review | 13 |
| 4. | abcd | Century | 11 |
| 5. | abcd | Scribner’s Magazine; | 8 |
| 6. | d | New York Tribune (including translations) | 8 |
| 7. | abc | Evening Post | 8 |
| 8. | d | Little Review | 7 |
| 9. | cd | Atlantic Monthly | 7 |
| 10. | ac | Metropolitan | 6 |
| 11. | b | Pagan (including translations) | 5 |
| 12. | a | Midland | 4 |
| 13. | Harper’s Bazar | 4 | |
| 14. | d | Smart Set | 4 |
| Ties in the above lists have been decided by taking relative rank in other lists into account. The New York Tribune, The Pagan, and The Stratford Journal gain their rank chiefly through translations of foreign stories, and allowance should be made for this in any qualitative estimate. | |||
Notes
1 The order in which the stories in this volume are printed is not intended as an indication of their comparative excellence; the arrangement is alphabetical by authors.
2 Copyright, 1919, by The Century Company. Copyright, 1920, by Gulielma Fell Alsop.
3 Copyright, 1918, by Margaret C. Anderson. Copyright, 1919, by The John Lane Company.
4 Copyright, 1919, by Harper & Brothers. Copyright, 1920, by Edwina Stanton Babcock.
5 Copyright, 1918, by Margaret C. Anderson. Copyright, 1920, by Djuna Barnes.
6 Copyright, 1919, by The Bellman Company. Copyright, 1920, by Frederick Orin Bartlett.
7 Copyright, 1919, by The Pictorial Review Company. Copyright, 1920, by Agnes Mary Brownell.
8 Copyright, 1918, by Charles Scribner’s Sons.
9 Copyright, 1919, by The Century Company. Copyright, 1920, by James Branch Cabell.
10 Copyright, 1919, by The Ridgway Company. Copyright, 1920, by Horace Fish.
11 Copyright, 1919, by The Pictorial Review Company. Copyright, 1920, by Susan Glaspell Cook.
12 Copyright, 1919, by The Pictorial Review Company. Copyright, 1920, by Henry Goodman.
13 Copyright, 1919, by The Curtis Publishing Company. Copyright, 1920, by Richard Matthews Hallet.
14 Copyright, 1919, by The Century Company. Copyright, 1920, by Joseph Hergesheimer.
15 Copyright, 1919, by Harper & Brothers. Copyright, 1920, by Will E. Ingersoll.
16 Copyright, 1919, by The Curtis Publishing Company. Copyright, 1920, by Calvin Johnston.
17 Copyright, 1918, by Smart Set Company, Inc. Copyright, 1920, by Howard Mumford Jones.
18 Copyright, 1918, by The Century Company. Copyright, 1920, by Ellen N. La Motte.
19 Copyright, 1919, by The American Hebrew. Copyright, 1920, by Elias Lieberman.
20 Copyright, 1919, by The McCall Company. Copyright, 1920, by Mary Heaton O’Brien.
21 Copyright, 1919, by The Century Company. Copyright, 1920, by Anzia Yezierska.