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

Stories, Listed by Title

• “My Boy” • Richard Washburn Child • (ss)
• My Cabaret Girl • C. Courtenay Savage • (ss)
• My Country Tish of Thee— • Mary Roberts Rinehart • (sl)
• My Cousin’s Bridegroom • Arthur Johnson • (ss)
• My First Concert • Carl I. Henrikson • (ss)
• My First Submarine • Laurence La Tourette Driggs • (ss)
• My Friend Father John • Ralph Stuart • (ss)
• My Grandmother and Myself • Mary Synon • (ss)
• My Lady Crusoe • Mark Harmon • (ss)
• My Lady’s Kiss • Andrew Soutar • (ss)
• My Roomy • Ring W. Lardner • (ss)
• My Son • Harry B. Kennon • (ss)
• My Wife • Arkadyi Averchenko • (ss)
• Myrtle McGuire—Detective • George Weston • (ss)
• Myself and Conrad Grines • Russell Pettis Askue • (ss)
• The Mysterious Foot • John Nicholas Beffel • (ss)
• The Mysterious Mrs. Osgood • Burton Kline • (ss)
• The Mystery at the Blue Villa • Melville Davisson Post • (ss)
• The Mystery of a Cork Leg • Joseph P. Brentano • (ss)
• The Mystery of the Girl and the Hand-Bag • Richard Le Gallienne • (ss)
• The Mystery of Women • Owen Johnson • (ss)
• N. Brown • Thane Miller Jones • (ss)
• Naboth’s Vineyard • Melville Davisson Post • (ss)
• The Naked Truth • Leila Burton Wells • (ss)
• The Name and the Game • Fannie Hurst • (ss)
• Namesakes • Marion Pugh Read • (ss)
• The Naming • Stewart Edward White • (ss)
• Naming the Noble Boys • George Pattullo • (ss)
• Nan • Mary Mears • (ss)
• Nan of Number Nineteen • John A. Moroso • (ss)
• The Narrow House • Will Payne • (ss)
• The Narrow Margin • Helen Baker Parker • (ss)
• The Narrow Way • V. H. Cornell • (ss)
• Nathan Briggs • Edwin Ford Piper • (ss)
• A Natural Oversight • Will Payne • (ss)
• The Natural Question Not to Ask • Edwin Lefèvre • (ss)
• Nature, Inc • Sinclair Lewis • (ss)
• Naughty Henree • George Pattullo • (ss)
• Ne Coco Domo • Frank Condon • (ss)
• Near the Turn of the Road • Kate Smith • (ss)
• The Necessity of Being Irish • Maurice Francis Egan • (ss)
• Neeth and the House of a Thousand Gods • Susan N. Read • (ss)
• The Neighbors • John Galsworthy • (ss)
• Nell Hogue • Roy Norton • (ss)
• Nemesis • Alice Brown • (ss)
• The Nemesis • Samuel Dike Hooper • (ss)
• Nerves • F. Britten Austin • (ss)
• A Nest for Ninette • Robert W. Sneddon • (ss)
• The Nester • Charles J. Lisle • (ss)
• Neutrality and Siamese Cats • George Agnew Chamberlain • (ss)
• The Neutrality of Mr. Antello • Edward C. Venable • (ss)
• Never Again! • George Pattullo • (ss)
• The New Administration • Melville Davisson Post • (ss)
• The New Chivalry • Milo Milton Hastings • (ss)
• The New Commandment • Fannie Hurst • (ss)
• The New Dormer Window • Mary Heaton Vorse • (ss)
• The New Emilia • Ruth Murray Underhill • (ss)
• A New England Pippa • Mary Esther Mitchell • (ss)
• A New England War Bride • Olive Higgins Prouty • (vi)
• A New Face on It • Mary Brecht Pulver • (ss)
• The New Freedom • Leavitt Ashley Knight • (ss)
• A New Generation Shall Rise • Alexander Hull • (ss)
• New Lamps for Old • Fanny Kemble Johnson • (ss)
• The New Nest • Katharine Holland Brown • (ss)
• New Rules for the Road • Rufus Milas Steele • (ss)
• The New Silhouette • Addison Lewis • (ss)
• A New Woman • Dorothy Weil • (ss)
• New York’s Girl • Frances Little • (ss)
• New-World Idyll • Joseph K. Opotawshu • (sl)
• The News • Wilfeid Wilson Gibson • (ss)
• “Next Year!” • William Almon Wolff • (ss)
• A Nice Little Morsel o’ Dog Meat • Norman Duncan • (ss)
• Nicholas Woodman • Alice Brown • (ss)
• The Nick of Time • E. Harold Cummings • (vi)
• The Nick of Time • Will Payne • (ss)
• The Night Before • Inez Haynes Irwin • (ss)
• A Night Call • William Chester Estabrook • (ss)
• Night Flower • Lee Pape • (ss)
• A Night in June • Eug. S. Pepi • (ss)
• A Night in Limehouse • Thomas Burke • (ss)
• A Night in the Forest • Joseph K. Opotawshu • (sl)
• The Night of the Dub • Albert Payson Terhune • (ss)
• The Night of the Fleece • Lawton Mackall • (ss)
• The Night of the Ghastly Entrances • Compton Mackenzie • (ss)
• The Night of the Importunate Suicide • Compton Mackenzie • (ss)
• The Night of the Stricken Room • Compton Mackenzie • (ss)
• The Night Riders • George Pattullo • (ss)
• The Night Run • Grace Sartwell Mason • (ss)
• The Night School • James M. Hopper • (ss)
• Nine Points of the Law • Frank Goewey Jones • (ss)
• The Ninety Black Boxes of Bishop Balue • George Bronson-Howard • (ss)
• Nino Jesu • Charles F. Davis • (ss)
• The Ninth Circle • Clare P. Peeler • (ss)
• Nipper’s Crowded Hour • Howard Brubaker • (ss)
• The Nippon Garden • John Seymour Wood • (ss)
• No Business • Charles E. Van Loan • (ss)
• No Clue • Marie Manning • (ss)
• No Friend to Santa Claus • Elsie Singmaster • (ss)
• No Language • Elizabeth Irons Folsom • (ss)
• No Man Knows • Richard Washburn Child • (ss)
• No. 45,637 Missing • Hendrik Willem Van Loon • (ss)
• Nobody’s Baby • Herman Landon • (ss)
• Nocturne • Alexander S. Kaun • (ss)
• Non Compos Mentis • Ernest L. Meyer • (ss)
• Non Plush Ultra • Harry Leon Wilson • (ss)
• The Non-Combatants • Harold MacGrath • (ss)
• Non-Comhatants • Tarleton Coluer • (ss)
• The Noncombatant • Ian Hay • (ss)
• None But the Brave • Philip E. Hubbard • (ss)
• None So Blind • Mary Synon • (ss)
• Norah • Gilbert Parker • (ss)
• North of the Tropic of Capricorn • A. E. W. Mason • (ss)
• The North Window • Harry B. Kennon • (ss)
• The Northern Men • Edgar Wallace • (ss)
• North’s Bargain • G. B. Lancaster • (ss)
• Not a Cent in the House • Anna Steese Richardson • (sl)
• Not a Chance in a Thousand • Holworthy Hall • (ss)
• Not Enough Mustard • Maximilian Foster • (ss)
• Not for Ordinary Folks • Freeman Tilden • (ss)
• “Not Here, O Apollo!” • Arthur T. Quiller-Couch • (ss)
• Not in the Dispatches • Richard Washburn Child • (ss)
• Not in the Script • Charles E. Van Loan • (sl)
• Not on the Passenger List • Barry Pain • (ss)
• Not Quite an Hour • Mildred Cram • (ss)
• Nothing • Zephine Humphrey • (ss)
• Nothing But Some Bones • Frank Condon • (ss)
• The Novelist • Sherwood Anderson • (sl)
• Number 3 on the Docket • Amy Lowell • (ss)
• The Nurses of Alwyn • Alberta Bancroft • (ss)
• The Nut from Pecan University • Hugh S. Fullerton • (ss)
• O Enfermeiro • Machado de Assis • (ss)
• The Oasis • Margaret Dodge • (ss)
• Oats for the Woman • Fannie Hurst • (ss)
• Obliging Amelia • Gertrude Xavier • (ss)
• The Obstacle • Leila Burton Wells • (ss)
• Occupation • Gordon Hall Gerould • (ss)
• The Odor of Murder • Sadakichi Hartmann • (ss)
• Of a Fighting Clan • Harry Inness Stillman • (ss)
• Of Arms and the Man • Oma Almona Davies • (ss)
• Of Water and the Spirit • Margaret Prescott Montague • (ss)
• The Off Chance • J. D. Beresford • (ss)
• Off Duty • Holworthy Hall • (ss)
• Off Pernambuco • Charles Boardman Hawes • (ss)
• Off the Turnpike • Amy Lowell • (ss)
• Off-Agin-on-Agin Finnegan • Will Adams • (ss)
• Officer of the Day • Hugh Johnson • (ss)
• “Oh, Pearl!” • Lewis Allen • (ss)
• Oh, You Bonehead! • Ring W. Lardner • (ss)
• Oil and Miss Watters • Octavus Roy Cohen • (ss)
• The Oil of Life • Ida M. Evans • (ss)
• Okhoy Babu’s Adventure • Charles Johnston • (ss)
• Old Age • Anton Chekhov • (ss)
• The Old Ambish • Hugh S. Fullerton • (ss)
• The Old Bell-Ringer • Vladimir G. Korolenko • (ss)
• The Old Club • Elmer Brown Mason • (ss)
• Old Diggums • Helen Palmer • (ss)
• The Old Dominie • George Weston • (ss)
• “Old Hundred” • Edith Wagner • (ss)
• Old John’s Trip on the Hawser • George Bigelow Cheever Rugg • (ss)
• The Old Maid Prospect • Elizabeth Harding Snyder • (ss)
• The Old Man of the Field • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman • (ss)
• The Old Man Who was Always There • Donal Hamilton Haines • (ss)
• An Old Man Without a Son • Robert W. Sneddon • (ss)
• The Old Marquis • Wyndham Martyn • (ss)
• Old Neighbors • Grant Showerman • (ss)
• Old Pastures • John Taintor Foote • (ss)
• Old Red Rambler • Wallace Irwin • (ss)
• The Old Road • Marion Pugh Read • (ss)
• The Old Soldier • Eden Phillpotts • (ss)
• The Old-Fashioned Gift • Katharine Holland Brown • (ss)
• An Old-Fashioned Man • Edgar Saltus • (ss)
• The Oldest Nurse • Helen T. Miller • (ss)
• O’Leary’s Dream of Empire • George Agnew Chamberlain • (ss)
• Olitchka • Scotland Liddell • (ss)
• Olivia Mist • Vincent O’Sullivan • (ss)
• The Omelette Soufflé • Charles Truitt • (ss)
• The Omitted Question • Clarence Budington Kelland • (ss)
• Ommirandy • Armistead C. Gordon • (ss)
• On a Brief Text from Isaiah • Katharine Holland Brown • (ss)
• On a Spring Tide • Charles Boardman Hawes • (ss)
• On Account of a Lady • Charles E. Van Loan • (ss)
• On an Autumn Night • Maxim Gorky • (ss)
• On an Old Army Post • James Merriam Moore • (ss)
• On Duty • Elizabeth Louise Haskell • (ss)
• On Her Own Ground • Crittenden Marriott • (ss)
• On Moon Hill • Wilbur Daniel Steele • (ss)
• On Schedule • Louise Kennedy Mabie • (ss)
• On the Altar of Friendship • Fanny Kemble Johnson • (ss)
• On the Altar of Hunger • Hugh Wiley • (ss)
• On the Brink • Ethel Lloyd Patterson • (ss)
• On the Gate with Waldo • Sewell Ford • (ss)
• On the Heights • Fannie Hurst • (ss)
• On the Knees of the Gods • William Rheem Lighton • (ss)
• On the Morning of Our Tale • John Fleming Wilson • (ss)
• On the Other Hand • Richard Washburn Child • (ss)
• On the Perils of Pestilent Playwrights • Anton Chekhov • (ss)
• On the Pirate Ship • Will Payne • (ss)
• On the Side with Silas • Sewell Ford • (ss)
• On the Spring Idea • Fannie Heaslip Lea • (ss)
• On the Swamp Road • Will Payne • (ss)
• On the Way with Cyril • Sewell Ford • (ss)
• On the Yellow Sea • John Colton • (ss)
• On Truly Hill • Henry Dudeney, Mrs. • (ss)
• On Washington - Lincoln’s Birthday • Elizabeth Gertrude Stern • (ss)
• On with the Dance • Mary Stewart Cutting • (ss)
• On With the Dance • John Walcott • (ss)
• Once a Scotchman, Always • Harry Leon Wilson • (ss)
• Once in a Lifetime • Bertha Helen Crabbe • (ss)
• Once To Every Woman • Crittenden Marriott • (ss)
• The One and the Other • V. H. Cornell • (ss)
• One at a Time • Harry Charles Witwer • (ss)
• The One Before the Last • Dana Gatlin • (ss)
• One Day—and Another • Dana Gatlin • (ss)
• One Evening-The Meeting • René Arcos • (ss)
• One Feels It • Richard Washburn Child • (ss)
• The One Girl • Henry Kitchell Webster • (ss)
• The One Great Thing • Eugene A. Clancy • (ss)
• One Hundred Dollars • Gertrude Nafe • (ss)