ghitza and other romances of gypsy blood, by konrad bercovici (boni & liveright), 1921.   this is the best volume of short stories published by an american author this year.   it consists of nine epic fragments which are studies in passionate color of roumanian gypsy life.   mr. bercovici's work bears no trace of special literary influences, and he has moulded a new form for these stories which disobeys successfully all the codes of story writing.   whether we are to regard him as an american or a european artist seems of little importance.   the essential point is that he and sherwood anderson are the most significant new short story writers who have emerged in america within the past five years.   -- ejo, the best short stories of 1921.

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