Best Short Stories: 1927

Contents:THE IDEALIST. By Mary Arden (From The Adelphi) THE SPOIL-SPORT. By Stacy Aumonier (From Pearson’s Magazine and The Forum) HATE. By H. H. Bashford (From The Grand Magazine) FEAR. By H. E. Bates (From The Nation and Athenceum) THE INDOMITABLE MRS. GARTHORNE. By J. D. Beresford (From Nash’s and Pall Mall Magazine) 'I IMAGINE . . .’ By Elizabeth Bowen (From Eve) THE THREE SCHOLARS. By Osbert Burdett (From The New Criterion) PURL AND PLAIN. By David Garnett (From Vogue, London) THE CELLO. By T. G. G.-A. (From The Adelphi) THE MOST MISERABLE OF MEN. By Desmond MacCarthy (From The Empire Review) FUNERAL MARCH OF A MARIONETTE. By John Metcalfe (From The Independent) LOST PROPERTY. By R. H. Mottram A TALE THAT WAS TOLD. By L. A. Pavey (From The Manchester Guardian) TRAGEDY IN A GREEK THEATRE. By V. S. Pritchett (From The Cornhill Magazine) A KIND OF FREEDOM. By Anthony Richardson (From The Royal Magazine and The Pictorial Review) THE LOCK. By Edward Sackville West (From The Forum) THE SHEEP. By Mary Somerville (From The Century Magazine) THE EMPTIED SACK. By Daniel Corkery (From The Dial) THE INFORMER. By Shaw Desmond (From Scribner's Magazine) GETTING EVEN. By Thomas Kelly (From The Manchester Guardian) THE BOMB-SHOP. By Sean O Faolain (From The Dial) REBELS THEY WERE CALLED. By K. F. Purdon(From Nash's and Pall Mall Magazine) THE QUEST. By Lennox Robinson (From The Dial)