The Other Woman.
By Sherwood Anderson
Gargoyle.
By Edwina Stanton Babcock
Ghitza.
By Konrad Bercovici
The Life of Five Points.
By Edna Clare Bryner
The Signal Tower.
By Wadsworth Camp
The Parting Genius.
By Helen Coale Crew
Habakkuk.
By Katharine Fullerton Gerould
The Judgment of Vulcan.
By Lee Foster Hartman
The Stick-in-the-Muds.
By Rupert Hughes
His Job.
By Grace Sartwell Mason
The Rending.
By James Oppenheim
The Dummy-Chucker.
By Arthur Somers Roche
Butterflies.
By Rose Sidney
The Rotter.
By Fleta Campbell Springer
Out of Exile.
By Wilbur Daniel Steele
The Three Telegrams.
By Ethel Storm
The Roman Bath.
By John T. Wheelwright
Amazement.
By Stephen French Whitman
Sheener.
By Ben Ames Williams
Turkey Red.
By Frances Gilchrist Wood
and organised criticism at its best would be nothing more than dead criticism, as all dogmatic interpretation of life is always dead. What has interested me, to the exclusion of other things, is the fresh, living current which flows through the best of our work, and the psychological and imaginative reality which our writers have conferred upon it.
No substance is of importance in fiction, unless it is organic substance, that is to say, substance in which the pulse of life is beating. Inorganic fiction has been our curse in the past, and bids fair to remain so, unless we exercise much greater artistic discrimination than we display at present.
The present record covers the period from October, 1919, to September, 1920, inclusive. During this period, I have sought to select from the stories published in American magazines those which have rendered life imaginatively in organic substance and artistic form. Substance is something achieved by the artist in every act of creation, rather than somethi
