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

Stories, Listed by Author

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KYNE, PETER B. (continued)

* Salt-Water Diplomacy, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Sep 4 1915
* Salvage, (ss) Colliers Dec 9 1916
* Silver Threads Among the Gold, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Apr 1914
* The Strange Adventures of Mike, “the Vagabone”, (ss) Colliers Jun 6 1914
* The Swanker, (ss) Sunset Magazine Oct 1917
* Under the Blue Star Flag, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Oct 23 1915
LAIT, JACK; [i.e., Jaquin L. Lait] (1882-1954)

* Annye’s Ma, (ss) The American Magazine Jul 1916
* As a Boy Thinks, (ss) The American Magazine Aug 1916
* A Clause for Santa Claus, (ss) Milestones Dec 1917
* A Fat Chance, (ss) The American Magazine Nov 1916
* If a Party Meet a Party, (ss)

Reedy’s Mirror Jan 26 1917

* The Iliad of an Ad, (ss) The American Magazine Dec 1916
* Jersey Lil, (ss) The American Magazine Jun 1917
* One Touch of Art, (ss) The American Magazine May 1916
* Pics, (ss) The American Magazine Sep 1916
* Saturday at Six, (ss) The American Magazine Oct 1916
* Second from the End, (ss) The American Magazine Jun 1916
* The Septagon, (ss) The American Magazine Apr 1916
* Toilers in the Night, (ss) The American Magazine Nov 1917
LANCASTER, G. B.; pseudonym of Edith Joan Lyttleton, (1874-1945)

* North’s Bargain, (ss) Harper’s May 1916
* The Passport of a Wolf, (ss) The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Jan 17 1915
* Stranlagh of the Gold Coast, (ss) Harper’s Apr 1914
LANCASTER, HEWES

* The Will, (ss) The Forum Aug 1914
LANDON, HERMAN (1892-1960)

* Nobody’s Baby, (ss) Every Week Nov 1 1915
LANE, GEORGE C.

* Jones of the Iron Grip, (ss) The Youth’s Companion Dec 20 1917
LARDNER, RING(gold) W(ilmer) (1885-1933)

* Alibi Ike, (nv) The Saturday Evening Post Jul 31 1915
* Ball-a-Hole, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post May 12 1917
* Carmen, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Feb 19 1916
* Champion, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Oct 1916
* The Facts, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Jan 1917
* A Friendly Game, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post May 5 1917
* Good for the Soul, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Mar 25 1916
* Gullible’s Travels, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Aug 19 1916
* Harmony, (ss) McClure’s Aug 1915
* The Hold-Out, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Mar 24 1917
* Horseshoes, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Aug 15 1914
* My Roomy, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post May 9 1914
* Oh, You Bonehead!, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Oct 30 1915
* The Poor Simp, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Sep 11 1915
* Sick ’Em, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Jul 25 1914
* Three Kings and a Pair, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Mar 11 1916
* Three Without, Doubled, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Jan 13 1917
* Tour Y-Io, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Feb 1917
* The Water Cure, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Oct 14 1916
* Where Do You Get That Noise?, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Oct 23 1915
* The Yellow Kid, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Jun 23 1917
LARSON, EMMA MAURITZ

* Lucky No.59, (ss) Sunset Magazine Aug 1915
* The Play Leader, (ss) Craftsman Sep 1916
* Tammas, (ss) Atlantic Monthly Mar 1914
LAUGHLIN, CLARA ELIZABETH (1873-?)

* The Love Maternal, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Nov 1916
LAVEDAN, HENRI

* The Spectre in the Wardrobe, (ss) Reedy’s Mirror Jan 22 1915
LAWRENCE, D(avid) H(erbert) (Richards) (1885-1930)

* England, My England, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Apr 1917
* Honor and Arms, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Nov 1914
* The Mortal Coil, (ss) Seven Arts Jul 1917
* The Thimble, (ss) Seven Arts Mar 1917
LAWSON, W. P.

* With the Column, (ss) Harper’s Weekly Jun 5 1915
LAZAR, MAURICE

* The Boarder, (ss) Masses Feb 1917
* Habit, (ss) Touchstone Jul 1917
LEA, FANNIE HEASLIP; [Mrs. Hamilton Pope Agee] (1884-?)

* Big Things, (ss) McClure’s May 1917
* By Margarita Trench, (ss) Colliers Mar 13 1915
* A Change of Venue, (ss) Colliers Jul 17 1915
* Come and Be Saved, (ss) Pictorial Review Nov 1916
* The Girl in the Vine-Covered Cottage, (ss) Colliers Mar 18 1916
* Green Fields, (ss) Harper’s Sep 1916
* The Lone Wolf, (ss) Harper’s Aug 1917
* Miss Juliet, (ss) Colliers Oct 14 1916
* Miss Smithy and the Prodigal Son, (ss) Everybody’s Magazine Apr 1916
* The Movie Girl and Little Patterson, (ss) Colliers Feb 13 1915
* On the Spring Idea, (ss) Every Week Apr 9 1917
* Opened by Censor 1762, (ss) The Delineator Sep 1917
* The Other Girl, (ss) Colliers Oct 2 1915
* The Tame Cat, (ss) Harper’s Nov 1914
* The Voice That Breathed O’er Eden, (ss) Harper’s Aug 1916
* With the Follies, (ss) Colliers Sep 11 1915
LEACOCK, STEPHEN (Butler) (1869-1944)

* Two Little Boys: An Allegory, (ss) Colliers Nov 27 1915
LEANDRE, MADAME

* Bagatelle, (ss) The Smart Set Mar 1915
LEBLANC, MAURICE (Marie Emile) (1864-1941)

* Presentiment, (ss) Reedy’s Mirror Aug 6 1915
LE BRAZ, ANATOLE (1859-?)

* The Christmas Treasure, (ss) Southern Woman’s Magazine Dec 1917
* The Frame, (ss) Outlook Feb 21 1917
LECLERCQ, PAUL

* A Story in White, (ss) Bruno’s Weekly Nov 13 1915
LEE, JENNETTE (Barbour Perry) [Mrs. Gerald Stanley Lee] (1860-1951)

* Another Woman, (ss) Ladies Home Journal Feb 1916
* At the End of the Rainbow, (ss) Scribner’s Aug 1915
* Billy Boy, (ss) Harper’s Mar 1916
* John Fairchild’s Mirror, (ss) The Century Apr 1917
* Miss Somebody’s Chair, (ss) Ladies Home Journal Jun 1917
* The Serenade, (ss) The Century Nov 1914
* The Three Boats that the Two Men Saw, (ss) Ladies Home Journal Aug 1917
* The Two Doctors, (ss) Ladies Home Journal Jul 1917
LEE, MUNA

* The Vigil, (ss) The Smart Set Oct 1915
LEFÈVRE, EDWIN (1871-1943)

* The Exit Finder, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Oct 2 1915
* The Greatest Speech in History, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post May 27 1916
* The Natural Question Not to Ask, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Jun 6 1914
* The Reluctant Appendix, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Feb 28 1914
* The Two Acorns, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Aug 8 1914
* The Wireless Confession, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Apr 25 1914
LE GALLIENNE, RICHARD (Thomas) (1866-1947)

* The Bugler of the Immortals, (ss) The Delineator Jul 1917
* The Mystery of the Girl and the Hand-Bag, (ss) National Sunday Magazine Feb 14 1915
* The Yellow Butterfly of Chiddingfold Manor, (ss) The Delineator Dec 1916
LEONARD, OSCAR

* A Job at Any Price, (ss) Reedy’s Mirror May 26 1916
LERNER, MARY

* The Business of Youth, (ss) McCall’s Oct 1916
* Forsaking All Others, (ss) Colliers May 26 1917
* Little Selves, (ss) Atlantic Monthly Sep 1916

The Illustrated Sunday Magazine May 13 1917

* Sixteen, (ss) McCall’s Mar 1917
* Summons, (ss) The Forum Oct 1914
* Wages of Virtue, (ss) All-Story Feb 3 1917
LESSING, BRUNO; pseudonym of Rudolph Block, (1870-1940)

* Buried Gold, (ss) Hearst’s Magazine Jan 1916
* Hot Tamale, (sl) American Sunday Magazine Aug 6, Aug 13 1916
LEV, BERNARD

* Bert, the Scamp, (ss) Stratford Journal Dec 1917
* Marfa’s Assumption, (ss) Stratford Journal Dec 1917
LEVEL, MAURICE (1875-1926)

* After the War, (ss) New York Tribune Oct 7 1917
* At the Movies, (ss) New York Tribune Dec 9 1917
* The Great Scene, (ss) Boston Herald Dec 2 1917
LEVERAGE, (Carl) HENRY (1885-1931)

* The Last Link, (ss) Short Stories Apr 1917
* A Passage for Archangel, (ss) Short Stories Feb 1917
* Salt of the Sea, (ss) Short Stories May 1917
LEVIN, LOUIS H. (1883-?)

* Little Tragedies, (ss) The Forum Sep 1914
LEVISON, ERIC

* Pro Patria (with Octavus Roy Cohen), (nv) Everybody’s Magazine Jul 1917
LEVOR, SIMPSON

* The Trap, (ss) New York Evening Sun Nov 22 1916
LEVY, DAVID S.

* The Coffin, (ss) The Black Cat Oct 1915
LEWER, LILY JOSEPHINE

* The Story of a Hungry Heart, (ss) Pictorial Review Aug 1915
LEWIS, ADDISON (1889-?)

* The 9:15, (ss) Reedy’s Mirror Nov 16 1917
* The Black Disc, (ss) Reedy’s Mirror Oct 26 1917
* “Elevator Stops At All Floors”, (ss) Reedy’s Mirror Dec 7 1917
* The End of the Lane, (ss) Reedy’s Mirror Feb 2 1917
* The New Silhouette, (ss) Reedy’s Mirror Nov 2 1917
* The Rejected, (ss) Reedy’s Mirror Oct 12 1917
* The Sign Painter, (ss) Reedy’s Mirror Oct 5 1917
* Spite, (ss) Reedy’s Mirror Oct 19 1917
* When Did You Write Your Mother Last?, (ss) Reedy’s Mirror Nov 9 1917
LEWIS, AUSTIN

* Contra Bonos Mores, (ss) Masses Sep 1917
* Lucky Sweasy!, (ss) Masses Jan 1917
* The Way of the Worker, (ss) Masses Oct 1916
LEWIS, OSCAR

* The Vigil of Little Antone, (ss) McBride’s Apr 1916
LEWIS, (Harry) SINCLAIR (1885-1951)

* Black Snow and Orange Sky, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Oct 1917
* Commutation: $9.17, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Oct 30 1915
* For the Zelda Bunch, (ss) McClure’s Oct 1917
* He Loved His Country, (ss) Everybody’s Magazine Oct 1916
* Hobohemia, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Apr 7 1917
* Honestly If Possible, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Oct 14 1916
* If I Were Boss, (sl) The Saturday Evening Post Jan 1, Jan 8 1916
* Joy-Joy, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Oct 20 1917
* Nature, Inc, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Oct 2 1915
* The Other Side of the House, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Nov 27 1915
* The Poinsettia Widow, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Mar 1917
* The Scarlet Sign, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Jun 1917
* Snappy Display, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Aug 1917
* Twenty-Four Hours in June, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Feb 17 1917
* The Whisperer, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Aug 11 1917
* A Woman by Candlelight, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Jul 28 1917
* Young Man Axelbrod, (ss) The Century Jun 1917
LEZEAU, ROBERT de

* The Order, (ss) New York Tribune Mar 19 1916
LIDDELL, SCOTLAND

* Olitchka, (ss)

Current Opinion Nov 1917
LIEBE, CHARLES HAVEN (1880-1957); see pseudonym Hapsburg Liebe
LIEBE, HAPSBURG; pseudonym of Charles Haven Liebe, (1880-1957)

* The International Baby, (ss) Associated Sunday Magazines, Inc. Feb 28 1915
* The Lad From Dixie, (ss) The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Jul 18 1915
LIEBERMAN, ELIAS

* Real Feeling, (ss) Harper’s Weekly Feb 19 1916
LIGHT, ANNIE

* Handsome Is, (ss) Today’s Magazine Sep 1916
LIGHTON, LOUIS DURYEA

* Billy Fortune and That Dead Broke Feeling (with William Rheem Lighton), (ss) Pictorial Review May 1917
* Billy Fortune and the Spice of Life (with William Rheem Lighton), (ss) Pictorial Review Mar 1917
* Billy Fortune’s Christmas (with William Rheem Lighton), (ss) Pictorial Review Dec 1916
* The Man Who Stopped Growing (with William Rheem Lighton), (ss) Every Week Sep 4 1916
* The Man Without a Character (with William Rheem Lighton), (ss) Sunset Magazine May 1917
LIGHTON, WILLIAM RHEEM (1866-?)

* Billy Fortune and That Dead Broke Feeling (with Louis Duryea Lighton), (ss) Pictorial Review May 1917
* Billy Fortune and the Besetting Sin, (ss) Every Week Nov 29 1915
* Billy Fortune and the Gee-Whizzer, (ss) Sunset Magazine May 1915
* Billy Fortune and the Hard Proposition, (ss) Every Week May 14 1917
* Billy Fortune and the Lady Who Spoke Her Mind, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Apr 3 1915
* Billy Fortune and the Man Who Didn’t Care, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Feb 20 1915
* Billy Fortune and the Spice of Life (with Louis Duryea Lighton), (ss) Pictorial Review Mar 1917
* Billy Fortune and the Ten-Cent Limit, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Dec 5 1914
* Billy Fortune and the Way Things Happen, (ss) Pictorial Review Mar 1916
* Billy Fortune’s Christmas (with Louis Duryea Lighton), (ss) Pictorial Review Dec 1916
* The Dismal Optimist, (ss) Pictorial Review Sep 1915

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