Index of Short Stories from
Edward J. O'Brien's
THE BEST SHORT STORIES (1915 - 1917)

Stories, Listed by Title

• Madcap • Edwin Balmer • (ss)
• Maddalena Speaks • Neith Boyce • (ss)
• Made in Germany • Temple Bailey • (ss)
• Made in Germany • Hugh Johnson • (ss)
• Made in Mazooma • Meredith Nicholson • (ss)
• Made of Steel • Richard Washburn Child • (ss)
• Made of Strong Clay • Emerson Gifford Taylor • (ss)
• Made to Measure • W. W. Jacobs • (ss)
• “Mademoiselle l’Anglaise” • Phyllis Bottome • (ss)
• The Madman • Frederic Arnold Kummer • (sl)
• Madman’s Luck • Norman Duncan • (ss)
• The Madonna • Benjamin Rosenblatt • (ss)
• Maggie • John A. Moroso • (ss)
• Maggie • Clare P. Peeler • (ss)
• Maggie’s Minstrel • Florence Converse • (ss)
• Magic Casements • Josephine Daskam Bacon • (ss)
• Magic Casements • Fanny Kemble Johnson • (ss)
• The Magic of Dreams • Laura L. Hinkley • (ss)
• The Magnet • Samuel A. Derieux • (ss)
• A Magyar Paladin • Franz Molnar • (ss)
• The Maiden’s Prayer • Harry Charles Witwer • (ss)
• The Main-Chance Lady • Cameron Mackenzie • (ss)
• Maizie, the Magazine Eater • Alfred Grunberg • (ss)
• Maje • Armistead C. Gordon • (sl)
• Major Miles and the Grim Reaper • L. B. Yates • (ss)
• Major Miles and the Humming Bird • L. B. Yates • (ss)
• Major Miles’ Chickens • L. B. Yates • (ss)
• Major Pom-Pom • George Weston • (ss)
• The Major, D.O.S. • Charles E. Van Loan • (ss)
• “Make-Believe” • Vsevolod Garshin • (ss)
• The Make-Good Country • Frederick Palmer • (ss)
• The Maker of Nothings • Addison Hibbard • (ss)
• A Maker of Salt • William John Hopkins • (ss)
• The Makeshift • Frederick Irving Anderson • (ss)
• Making Good on the Props • J. Bernard Lynch • (ss)
• The Making of Madigan • George Weston • (ss)
• The Making of Silly Billy • Ernest Thompson Seton • (ss)
• Making Over Mary • Ethel May Kelley • (ss)
• Making Port • Richard Matthews Hallet • (ss)
• Making Up “The Record” • Louis Graves • (ss)
• The Makin’s • Sara Hamilton Birchall • (ss)
• Malady Aforethought • Howard Brubaker • (ss)
• Malmaison • Amy Lowell • (sl)
• Mama Rosengarten’s Birthday • Harry B. Kennon • (ss)
• Mamie’s Father • Ellis Parker Butler • (ss)
• The Man • Warrington Dawson • (ss)
• A Man and His Dog • Hugh Johnson • (ss)
• The Man and the Other Man • Edward Lyell Fox • (ss)
• Man and the Simplon • Maxim Gorky • (ss)
• The Man Broadway Forgot • Walter Prichard Eaton • (ss)
• The Man From America • Alden Brooks • (ss)
• The Man from America • Melville Davisson Post • (ss)
• The Man from Flanders • Hanna Rion • (ss)
• The Man from Nevada • Christopher P. Connolly • (ss)
• The Man from the Front • Arthur Stringer • (ss)
• The Man in the End Room • Harris Dickson • (ss)
• The Man in the Gilded Cage • Cameron Mackenzie • (ss)
• The Man in the Green Hat • Melville Davisson Post • (ss)
• A Man of Action • Lawrence Perry • (ss)
• Man of My Dreams • Eleanor Hallowell Abbott • (ss)
• The Man of Mystery • Edwin Björkman • (ss)
• The Man That Was in Him • Edison Marshall • (ss)
• The Man Up-Stairs • R. H. Barbour • (ss)
• The Man Who Came Back • Edgar Jepson • (ss)
• The Man Who Couldn’t Go Home • Frederick Irving Anderson • (ss)
• The Man Who Couldn’t Miss • Margarita Spalding Gerry • (ss)
• The Man Who Died Without Death • Lewis Frank Tooker • (ss)
• The Man Who Found His Country • William Almon Wolff • (nv)
• The Man Who Had Been Trained • Chester Fairclo Bray • (ss)
• The Man Who Knew • Leo Crane • (ss)
• The Man Who Lost Caste • Achmed Abdullah • (ss)
• The Man Who Lost His Likeness • Morley Roberts • (ss)
• The Man Who Made Believe • Larry Evans • (ss)
• The Man Who Needed Nerve • George Weston • (ss)
• The Man Who Owned Soledad • Wilbur Hall • (ss)
• The Man Who Paid • William David Ball • (ss)
• The Man Who Paid • John Barnett • (ss)
• The Man Who Quit • Charles E. Van Loan • (ss)
• The Man Who Stopped Growing • Louis Duryea Lighton & William Rheem Lighton • (ss)
• The Man Who Tried • George Weston • (ss)
• The Man Who Was Afraid • John Breck • (ss)
• The Man Who Was Afraid • Pierre Mille • (ss)
• The Man Who Was Afraid • Mary Brecht Pulver • (ss)
• The Man Who Was Afraid • Lewis Frank Tooker • (ss)
• The Man Who Was Bitter • Clarence Budington Kelland • (ss)
• The Man Who Was Cracked • George Weston • (ss)
• The Man Who Was Never a Boy • Temple Bailey • (ss)
• The Man Who Was Ninety-Nine • John Higgins • (ss)
• The Man Who Was Too Good • Caroline King Duer • (ss)
• The Man Who Went Back • George Agnew Chamberlain • (ss)
• The Man Who Wished • Achmed Abdullah • (ss)
• The Man Who Won • Vance Palmer • (ss)
• The Man Who Would Dream • Seumas MacManus • (ss)
• The Man Who Would Not Kill • E. Richard Schayer • (ss)
• The Man Who Wouldn’t Die • Ruth Sawyer • (ss)
• The Man with Eyes in His Back • Erle Johnsyon • (ss)
• The Man with the Hose • Lawton Mackall • (ss)
• The Man With the Key Once More • Edwin Ford Piper • (ss)
• The Man with the Lantern • Knut Hamsun • (ss)
• The Man with the Lantern • Meredith Nicholson • (ss)
• The Man with the Wooden Leg • Seumas O’Brien • (ss)
• The Man with Two Left Feet • P. G. Wodehouse • (ss)
• The Man Without a Character • Louis Duryea Lighton & William Rheem Lighton • (ss)
• The Man-Eating Tree • Philip Robinson • (ss)
• The Man-Hater • Mary Brecht Pulver • (ss)
• The Man-Killer • Holworthy Hall • (ss)
• The Manager of Crystal Sulphur Springs • Susan Keating Glaspell • (ss)
• Mandolin Lin • Phyllis Wyatt Brown • (ss)
• Mandy’s Methods • Nelson Burnham • (ss)
• The Manhandler • Hugh Johnson • (ss)
• The Manicure Girl • Anon. • (ss)
• Manna • John Galsworthy • (ss)
• A Man’s Own Wife • S. D. Meaker • (ss)
• A Man’s Profit • Maude Radford Warren • (ss)
• A Man’s Right • Helen R. Hull • (ss)
• Manuelita of the Bees • Hugh Lofting • (ss)
• The Map, the Button, and the Little Girl • James M. Hopper • (ss)
• The March of Progress • John C. Squire • (ss)
• Marco Baldi, Owner • Gino C. Speranza • (ss)
• Marconi vs. Hymen • Frank X. Finnegan • (ss)
• Marfa’s Assumption • Bernard Lev • (ss)
• Marie Rose of Mustard Street • Frances Aymar Matthews • (ss)
• Mariette’s Gift • Jean Aicard • (ss)
• Marked “Shop” • William Aiken Starrety • (ss)
• Marked for the Unexpected • Margaret Prescott Montague • (ss)
• Markley’s “Size-Up” of Dix • Ellis Parker Butler • (ss)
• The Marooning of Marryat • Vance Palmer • (ss)
• The Marquise of Queensberry • John Fox, Jr • (ss)
• Marriage by Capture • Sophie Kerr • (ss)
• Marriage by Miracle • María Cristina Mena • (ss)
• Married • Theodore Dreiser • (ss)
• Marrying a Meal Ticket • L. B. Yates • (ss)
• Marrying Anne • Ethel May Kelley • (ss)
• Marrying Maude • George Weston • (ss)
• Marrying Money • Lloyd Osbourne • (ss)
• The Martial Mood of M’sieur • George Weston • (ss)
• Martin’s Chickens • Thomas Newell Metcalf • (ss)
• Martin’s Hollow • Katharine Fullerton Gerould • (ss)
• Mary and Marie • Porter Emerson Browne • (ss)
• Mary Ann and the Grand Duke • Molly Elliot Seawell • (ss)
• Mary Carr’s Son • Crittenden Marriott • (ss)
• Mary Goes Alone • Leroy Scott • (ss)
• Mary Long-Ago • George Henry Shelton • (ss)
• Mary May and Miss Phyllis • Gouverneur Morris • (ss)
• Mary Postgate • Rudyard Kipling • (ss)
• Mary Tompkins • Margretta Scott • (ss)
• Mary Waits By the Window • Robert Garland • (ss)
• Marya • Elsbeth Hasse Andrae • (ss)
• Ma’s Pretties • Francis Buzzell • (ss)
• The Master Mariner • Peter B. Kyne • (ss)
• The Master of Death • Cosmo Hamilton • (ss)
• The Master of Dreams • Leroy Scott • (ss)
• The Master of His Fate • Fanny Kemble Johnson • (ss)
• The Master of Lumberhurst • Leon Mead • (ss)
• The Master of Women • Lincoln Steffens • (ss)
• The Match Breakers • Edith Sessions Tupper • (ss)
• A Match for Myrtie • Clarence Budington Kelland • (ss)
• The Mate of the Susie Oakes • Ben Ames Williams • (ss)
• The Maternal Sacrifice • Grace Ellery Channing • (ss)
• Mates • Walter L. Myers • (ss)
• Mathurine’s Eyes • René Bazin • (ss)
• Matt Looks Upon the Wine • Inez Haynes Gillmore • (ss)
• Matt Peasley, Sea Lawyer • Peter B. Kyne • (ss)
• Matt Sweeney, Scowman • George Bigelow Cheever Rugg • (ss)
• A Matter of Education • Wilbur Daniel Steele • (ss)
• A Matter of Friendship • Roy Norton • (ss)
• A Matter of Gesture • Susan Keating Glaspell • (ss)
• A Matter of Investments • Allan Updegraff • (ss)
• A Matter of Pressure • Wilbur Jay Hall • (ss)
• A Matter of Quality • Walter Ferris • (ss)
• Maud and Bill • Booth Tarkington • (nv)
• The Maxim—Caveat Emptor • Wilbur Jay Hall • (ss)
• A May Flitting • Grace A. Croff • (ss)
• May-Day Magic • Aileen Cleveland Higgins • (ss)
• “Maybe Wild Parsnips” • Keene Abbott • (ss)
• Maytime in Marlow • Booth Tarkington • (nv)
• The Meadow Larks • Walter Prichard Eaton • (ss)
• Meal Ticket vs. Heavy Date • John Crowfoot • (ss)
• The Mean Little Fellow • James M. Hopper • (ss)
• The Meanest Man in Our Square • Samuel Hopkins Adams • (ss)
• Meaning—Chase Yourself • John Russell • (ss)
• Meanwhile • Edwin Ford Piper • (ss)
• Measles • Kathleen Norris • (ss)
• The Measure of a Man • Louise Closser Hale • (ss)
• The Measure of a Man • Norman Springer • (ss)
• Measured by the Golden Rule • Walter Dundore Brenner • (ss)
• The Medal of M. Moulin • George Weston • (ss)
• The Medal Winner • Alpheus Stewart • (ss)
• The Medallion • Frederic Boutet • (ss)
• Medals • Kate Buss • (ss)
• The Medicine Ship • James B. Connolly • (ss)
• The Meed of a Brute • Anon. • (ss)
• The Meeting • Charles-Louis Philippe • (ss)
• ’Melia No-Good • I. A. R. Wylie • (ss)
• Melting Ice • James Oppenheim • (ss)
• The Melting of an Ice Trust • L. B. Yates • (ss)
• The Melting Pot • Alice Garland Steele • (ss)
• The Memorandum Book • Will Payne • (ss)
• The Memorial Window • Frances C. Abbott • (ss)
• Men Are So Queer: Women Are So Strange • Wilson Woodrow, Mrs. • (ss)
• The Men of 1916 • Anon. • (ss)
• The Men They Once Were • Holworthy Hall • (ss)
• Men-Fokes’ Doin’s • Sarah J. Cocke • (ss)
• The Menorah • Benjamin Rosenblatt • (ss)
• The Merger • May Futrelle • (ss)
• The Mess of Pottage • Dorothy Canfield • (ss)
• The Message • Alice M. Williamson & C. N. Williamson • (ss)
• The Message of Ann Laura Sweet • Ella Higginson • (ss)
• Messages of Spring • Alan Sullivan • (ss)
• The Messenger • Frederic Boutet • (ss)
• The Messenger • George Agnew Chamberlain • (ss)
• Michael Comes Into His Own • Imogen Clark • (ss)
• Michaeleen! Michaelawn! • Rupert Hughes • (ss)
• Micr9cosm • Edward Eyre Hunt • (ss)
• ’Mid the Flotsam of the Seas • Edwin Balmer • (ss)
• Middle Age • Alice Duer Miller • (ss)