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.