Show 1 Collection of Years Year's Best Short Stories Issued Edward J. J j 5 OBrien O'Brien M Marks Another Another Another An An- other Milestone in n History History History His His- tory of American Short When Edward J. J OBrien O'Brien started his annual collection of ot American short stories ten years ears ago he ha started a fashion The public has come to expect this annual resume of the short fiction of ot the year ear and an more It has come to rely on the Judgment of or OBrien O'Brien The latest collection under the time title The Best Beat Short Stories of 1924 is js a. a av a tribute to the writers included as w. w welt well 1 as to the judgment of ot Mr l OBrien O'Brien It contains twenty short stories each one of which convincingly shouts snouts its worth 10 No 0 attempt has been made b by Mr 11 OBrien O'Brien to ar arrange arrange ar- ar range the stories in their order of merit and so it Is that the reader reader- wm be unable to pick any quarrel with the editor Each and every eer one of the twenty stories In time trie Volume is a good stor story The collection covers a a. wi wide e range of topics and the whole y m-y be considered more or less representative representative of our life liCe In his introduction Introduction intro intro- Mr OBrien O'Brien recites that he was struck by the note of sadness which pervades the American short story of toda today He lie offers his j own explanation declaring It Is because the short story is written to satis antis satisfy fy imprisoned emotions It is Js more or less true that when all is rollicking gaiety the short story becomes something else Es- Es Es Es- there Is a a. problem in that section of ot life which Is represented by the short story Problems are depressing the solutions must be In sight before we can laugh So it Is that the time American snort short story clings to a happy ending when its tenor Is essentially sad The stories Included in this vol volume vol- vol 01 ume urns are Cham Champlin pUn b by Morgan Burke Billy by Mildred ram rain Phantom Adventure by Flo Floyd d Dell The Cracked Teapot b by Charles C. C Dobie Doble The Last Dive by Carlos Caries Drake Adventures of Andrew Lang by Charles J. J Finger Finer Fin Film ger er The Biography of Blade by i Zona Gale b by TUpp Tupper l' l Greenwald The Young Men Go Down by Harry Hervey The Lesser Gift by Leonard L L. Hess by Rupert Hughes A I Postscript to Divorce by Gouverneur Gouier Gou neur Morris Forgiveness Forg by bv LIzette Woodworth Resse Nocturne Nocturne Noc turne A Red Shawl Red ShaWl Sha b I by Roger Sergei The Black Laugh by A A. A B B. Four Generations bI bv by byRuth I Ruth Suckow Two Women and Hog-Back Hog R dge b by M Melvin Melvln lvin Vanden Vanden Vanden Van- Van den Bark the Zhe Poet by Warren L. L Van Din i In a Thicket ket oy tw Glenway and Shoes Shoe by Frances GilchrIst Wood Wood Small Small Maynard Co Boston SECRET Or OP CHARM What Is the the secret of or Arthur Henr Henry Jones' Jones special charm as a dramatist Clayton Hamilton in his imis introduction to Representative Pla Plays by Mr Mm Jones a volume four-volume work published recently by bv LIttle kittle Brown Co says sa-'s He Mr Jones differs n markedly ar In but scarcely in degree or of merit from Pinero is less c clover clever and nd erSh Shaw than Wilde and Barrie 1 less lees e witty He than Shaw less brilliant than Pinero Pin- Pin ero ero less whimsical than Berry Berr but out on the other hand h he 13 is more hu humorous ho- ho than any of them Wilds Wilde is not a humorist he lie s 's too arti arti- tidal Shaw is not a humorist heis he ha hais heIs is too belligerent Pinero is not nota a humorist he Is too sardonic Barlie Bartile Bar Bar- tile lie Is not a humorist he is too too- capricious But the author of or U lie Re Susan I and The Liars Liars' is 19 fundamentally and essentially a humorist humorist hu hu- laughing with the time very people pee peo I plo pIe he laughs at for their s sand sand and foibles and radiating by congi contagion contagion con con- gi a healthy h hearty a and who who- N ly hy humored good 0 d. d outlook on the tha world HERO The personality of ot the Anthony Fortesque is evidently evidently evi evi- dently not entirely this the creation of or Cosmo Cosine Hamiltons Hamilton's imagination This hero whose irrepressible high spirits spirits spirits spir spir- its brighten time the pages of Paradise Para Pars dIsc dise Mr Hamiltons Hamilton's latest novel recently published by Little Brown Co must have received some of or his irresistible charm and lightheartedness lightheartedness light light- heartedness from a young oung oun man amen whom Mr Hamilton mentions in n his autobiography Unwritten ills His to tar tory He was a young and cheery soul I who had been expelled from Oxford Mr Hamilton explained for running a fake take roulette table and who fell feU 01 on his feet in the wa war out of which he emerged as a majar major ma ma- jar jor D D. S. S 0 O M. M C C. He lie lived hived on ma Tile for a month or so after the armistIce arnus- arnus tIce and wore wIre my best ties and tl tl-en tl t-l t when I kicked him downstairs ma made o grind glad music with a cornet in an ex- ex soldiers' soldiers band Much of this is reminiscent of the hero of Iaia dise except dise except the kicking dow do doa a- a I j II I TJI lE IX IN LUEI LIFE LUE I Dr PI Abraham in his book When hen Life Ilfe Loses Its Zest Zelt recently published by Little Brown Drown Co calls boredom death in life Some of the causes which h he gives for this mental ill which so many men amen and women suffer from today are cynicism exhaustion the tIme mechanical mechanical me me- expenditure of energy physical ailments and satiation Even Kven oven more interesting are the methods methods meth meth- ads of prevention and cure which Dr suggests He Ic urges urges urges' people not to neglect the present for forthe or the he future not to g give ge e up all au ideala deats and faith not to be afraid of sim The Time book boole is a sane exposition exposition exposition expo expo- of a a. subject with which t Lr Dr r. r M erson is well acquainted through J his work worle as a specialist in nervous and mental disorders In 1919 99 A A. A Hamilton Gibbs Just released from Irons four years ears of at active ser service serice ice in the time British army wrote Gun Fodder which has obtained a a. rating as one of the tIme six best books about the war Now he Ime has turned his gifts of keen observation and graphic description to writing a novel Soundings the this love tOry story of a motherless English girl brought up by her lonely artist father rather In a small village e which willbe Will Willbe be published on March 7 7 S t. t |