MAGAZINE AVERAGES FOR 1919
Reading edition
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 Monthly1917127896337
Bellman (Nov.-June)311863581910
Catholic World962066220
Century35282011805732
Collier's Weekly114291002590
Cosmopolitan6611321753
Delineator409102330
Everybody's Magazine469222044
Good Housekeeping30963302010
Harper's Bazar331074302112
Harper's Magazine60503619836032
Hearst's Magazine71137318104
Little Review (except July and September)999710010072
Metropolitan5317126322311
Midland131264924631
New York Tribune7033168472311
Pagan4620145443011
Pictoral Review44252013574530
Reedy's Mirror2584232168
Saturday Evening Post308511981763
Scribner's Magazine4936218744316
Smart Set135251241993
Stratford Journal32282014886344
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 Magazine83%
3.Century80%
4.Scribner's Magazine74%
5.Bellman (January-June)58%
6.Pictorial Review57%
7.New York Tribune (including translations)47%
8.Pagan (including translations)44%
9.Harper's Bazar33%
10. Metropolitan32%
11. Reedy's Mirror32%
12. Good Housekeeping30%
13. Collier's Weekly25%
14. Delineator23%
15. Everybody's Magazine20%
16. Smart Set19%
17. American Magazine (except September)19%
18. Hearst's Magazine18%
19. Saturday Evening Post17%
20. Cosmopolitan17%
21. To-day's Housewife17%
BY NUMBER OF DISTINCTIVE STORIES
1.Saturday Evening Post51
2.Harper's Magazine50
3.Scribner's Magazine36
4.New York Tribune (including translations)33
5.Collier's Weekly29
6.Stratford Journal (including translations)28
7.Century28
8.Pictorial Review25
9.Smart Set25
10. Pagan (including translations)20
11. Bellman (January-June)18
12. Metropolitan17
13. Hearst's Magazine13
14. Cosmopolitan11
15. Harper's Bazar10
16. Good Housekeeping9
17. Delineator9
18.Everybody's Magazine9
19.Reedy's Mirror8
20.American Magazine (excluding September)8
21.To-day's Housewife6
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.abcdHarper's Magazine36
2.abcdScribner's Magazine21
3.d Stratford Journal (including translations)20
4.abcdCentury20
5.bcdPictorial Review20
6.abcdSaturday Evening Post19
7.bdNew York Tribune (including translations)16
8.bPagan (including translations) 14
9.cdAtlantic Monthly12
10.bMetropolitan12
11.abcdSmart Set12
12.abcdCollier's Weekly10
13. Little Review9
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.abcdHarper's Magazine19
2.cdStratford Journal (including translations)14
3.acdPictorial Review13
4.abcdCentury11
5.abcdScribner's Magazine;8
6.dNew York Tribune (including translations)8
7.abc Evening Post 8
8.dLittle Review7
9.cdAtlantic Monthly 7
10.acMetropolitan6
11.bPagan (including translations)5
12.aMidland4
13. Harper's Bazar4
14.dSmart Set4
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.