Books: Best

THE BEST SHORT STORIES OF 1925, Edited by Edward J. O'Brien, Small, Maynard ($2.50). By "best," Mr. O'Brien means those stories through which "the fresh, living current" of U. S. life flows and upon which has been conferred psychological and imaginative reality. The editor is not interested in organized criticism. Watching from European haunts, he records "the result of America's conscious attempt at self-education" in a medium peculiarly American. It is his eleventh consecutive record of the kind, bringing the total of stories...

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