T HE EXCELLENT bibliography of LeRoy Phillips1 failed to list a first appearance in a periodical for only twenty-one of James's one hundred and thirty-two novelettes and tales.2 Of the stories for which no provenance in the magazines could be established, some were described as unpublished prior to their printing in book form, and some were referred to as having been published originally in unidentified magazines. Since the date of Phillips's volume bibliographical information concerning nine of James's tales has been discovered by Edna Kenton,3 by R. L. Wolff,4 and by F. 0. Matthiessen and K. B. Murdock in their recent edition of Notebooks of Henry James.5 At present, therefore, a record of publication in the periodicals is lacking for only twelve of James's shorter fictions. On the basis of James's own comments it seems probable that no identification with the magazines need be expected for nine of these stories. history of The Altar of the Dead, first of James's short stories to find no hospitality in the magazines, hints at the treatment accorded to the rest of the nine. Forming a part of the volume Terminations (I895), The Altar of the Dead had, as James recalled sadly, vainly been 'hawked about,' knocking in the world of magazines, at half a dozen editorial doors impenetrably closed to it.6 The Beast in the Jungle (The Better Sort, I903),