22 JANUARY 1927, Page 28

THE BEST SHORT STORIES OF 1926. Edited Edward J. O'Brien.

(Cape. 7s. 6d.)—Among the we represented in this collection are Messrs. J. D. Beres A. E. Coppard, Walter de in Mare, Aldous Huxley, D. - Lawrence, and Hugh Walpole. The range of subject and t meat is wide. It is a far cry from Miss Stella Benson's tastic interpretation of the Creation to Mr. Gerald Bulk

• vivid glimpse of a domestic quarrel or the mingled rom and realism of Mr. Thomas Burke. All the stories, hove have been selected for their " organic substance, that is to -substance in which the pulse of life is beating." A list of year's best short stories not included in the collection is ad and biographical notices are given.