An annual selection of representative stories- 18 short stories and 2 novelettes- provide readers with a good cross section of writing of this type. For young people this has more actual value, perhaps, as study of the genre than for older readers who read familiar writers merely for entertainment. Varied in style and content, with- one must confess, a certain gloss which does not always conceal some flimsy material. Contributors include such names as Paul Horgan, Pearl Buck, Robert Standish, Don Tracy.