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

Stories, Listed by Author

ANON. (continued)

• * The Men of 1916, (ss) The Forum Feb 1916
• * The Parable of the Red Hag, (ss) The Smart Set Aug 1915
• * The Parting, (ss) Masses Oct 1916
• * The Pipe, (ss) New York Tribune Nov 4 1917
• * The Poilu’s Dream on Christmas Eve, (ss) Boston Herald Dec 23 1917
• * A Quarrel, (ss) Masses Sep 1916
• * The Rendezvous, (ss) New York Tribune Sep 30 1917
• * The Sacrifice, (ss) New York Tribune Aug 20 1916
• * Safety in Numbers, (ss) The New Republic Jul 10 1915
• * A Slacker with a Soul, (ss) New York Tribune Sep 16 1917
• * The Spirit of Alsace, (ss) New York Tribune May 6 1917
• * The Tempting of Anthony, (ss) Masses Oct 1916
• * The Triple Entente, (ss) Associated Sunday Magazines, Inc. Feb 14 1915
• * Twelve Dollars, (ss) McClure’s Jul 1915
• * Twelve Years with Alcohol, (ss) McClure’s Oct 1915
• * The Vengeance of the She-Wolf, (ss) New York Tribune Jun 18 1916
• * The Voice of the Church Bell, (ss) New York Tribune Oct 21 1917
• * War Against War, (sl) McClure’s Apr, May 1917
• * When Lulu Made Trouble, (ss) Reedy’s Mirror May 18 1917
• * The Woman Behind the Bottle, (ss) McClure’s Jul 1915

APPLE, E. ALBERT

• * Santa Claus by Special Delivery, (ss) The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Dec 12 1915

ARBUCKLE, MARY

• * Freedom and Robbie May, (ss) Sunset Magazine Nov 1917

ARCOS, RENÉ

• * One Evening-The Meeting, (ss) International Jan 1915

ARMSTRONG, EVERHARDT

• * Zelda, (ss) The Smart Set Feb 1915

ARMSTRONG, WILLIAM

• * Cupid in High Finance, (ss) The Delineator Sep 1917

ARNOLD, EDWIN LESTER (1857-1935)

• * The Treasure Maid, (ss) Chambers’s Journal Christmas 1908
  • The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Jul 4 1915

ARNY, GRACE LEA

• * The Hope Chest, (ss) McBride’s Nov 1915

ARTZYBASHEV, MICHAEL

• * The Revolutionist, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Aug 1915

ASCH, SCHOLEM

• * Abandoned, (ss) The Pagan Sep 1916

ASHE, ELIZABETH

• * Appraisement, (ss) Atlantic Monthly Mar 1917
• * Blue Reefers, (ss) Atlantic Monthly Nov 1914
• * The Glory-Box, (ss) Atlantic Monthly Dec 1914

ASHMUN, MARGARET

• * The Rooshian, (ss) Craftsman Aug 1916

ASKUE, RUSSELL PETTIS

• * Myself and Conrad Grines, (ss) Lippincott’s Feb 1915

ASSIS, MACHADO de (1839-1908)

• * The Attendant’s Confession, (ss)
  • Stratford Journal Dec 1917
• * O Enfermeiro, (ss) Boston Evening Transcript Nov 4 1916

ATHERTON, GERTRUDE (Franklin Horn) (1857-1948)

• * The Sacrificial Altar, (nv) Harper’s Aug 1916

AUERNHEIMER, RAOUL (1876-?)

• * Demonstrating That War Is War, (ss) New York Tribune Jan 28 1917

AUMONIER, STACY (1887-1928)

• * Burney’s Laugh, (ss) The Century Jul 1916
• * The Friends, (nv) The Century Oct 1915
  • The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Apr 16 1916
• * In the Way of Business, (nv) Pictorial Review Mar 1917
• * The Packet, (nv) Colliers May 26 1917
• * The Preposterous Princess, (ss) The Smart Set Aug 1915
• * “Them Others”, (ss) The Century Aug 1917
• * The Triple Scarab, (ss) Pictorial Review Sep 1916

AUSTIN, F(rederick) BRITTEN (1885-1941)

• * Nerves, (ss) Colliers Nov 14 1914
• * Zu Befehl!, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Dec 1 1917

AVERCHENKO, ARKADYI (1881-1925)

• * Heroism Under a Bushel, (ss) International Dec 1916
• * His Friend, (sl) The Russian Review Jul, Aug 1916
• * My Wife, (ss) International Jul 1916
• * A Spiritual Drama: The Life of Man, (ss) The New Republic Nov 6 1915
• * The Telephone, (ss) International Nov 1916
• * War, (ss) International Sep 1916

AVERTCHENKO, ARCADIE; see under Averchenko, Arkadyi

AYMAR, MAUD CHRISTIAN

• * The War Medal, (ss) Harper’s Weekly Feb 5 1916

B., R. H.

• * Thicker Than Water (with G. R. O.), (ss) Life Nov 25 1915

BABCOCK, EDWINA STANTON

• * The Band, (ss) Harper’s Nov 1916
• * The Excursion, (ss) Pictorial Review Oct 1917

BACHELLER, IRVING (Addison) (1859-1950)

• * The Hero of Sam Hill, (ss) Colliers Sep 4 1915
• * Left Behind, (ss) Colliers Oct 30 1915

BACON, JOSEPHINE (Dodge) DASKAM (1876-1961)

• * A Bachelor of Hearts, (ss) Colliers Sep 30 1916
• * Comrades in Arms, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Oct 27 1917
• * Darby and Joan, Limited, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Nov 14 1914
• * Entrances and Exits, (ss) The Delineator Oct 1917
• * The Fly in the Ointment, (ss) Ladies Home Journal Aug 1915
• * The Ghost of Rosy Taylor, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Nov 17 1917
• * High Days and Holy Days, (ss) The Delineator Dec 1916
• * Magic Casements, (ss) The Delineator Nov 1917
• * One of Our Luncheons, (ss) The Delineator Feb 1916
• * Phyllis Fellowes, Feminist, (ss) Colliers Nov 18 1916
• * The Royal Road to Learning, (ss) The Delineator Sep 1916
• * Square Peggy, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Dec 22 1917
• * The Test, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post May 16 1914
• * We Visit the Zoo, (ss) The Delineator Mar 1916
• * A Year of Cousin Quartus, (ss) The Delineator Feb 1917

BAILEY, CAROLINE S(herwin) (1875-1961)

• * Orphan No.873, (ss) The Delineator Jan 1915

BAILEY, (Irene) TEMPLE

• * Made in Germany, (ss) Scribner’s Jun 1915
• * The Man Who Was Never a Boy, (ss) Colliers Oct 10 1914
• * Petronella, (ss) Harper’s Jan 1914
• * A Rebellious Grandmother, (ss) Harper’s Sep 1914
• * The Red Candle, (ss) Scribner’s Dec 1917

BAILLIE-GROEMAN, O.

• * Seppel, (ss) The Forum Nov 1914

BAKER, KATHARINE

• * The Fifty-Cent Kind, (ss) Atlantic Monthly Apr 1917
• * For Distinguished Conduct, (ss) The Forum Jan 1914
• * A Home for Tatiana, (ss) Scribner’s Dec 1916
• * The Son, (ss) Seven Arts Nov 1916

BAKER, RAY STANNARD (1870-1946)

• * The Great American Conscription, (ss) The American Magazine Jan 1916
• * The Last Phase of the Great War, (ss) The American Magazine Jan 1915

BAKER, VIRGINIA ELLEN

• * The Afternoon Ride of Paul Revere Columbus Dobbs, (ss) Atlantic Monthly Aug 1914
• * Grandfather Crane Invokes the Aid of Sorcery, (ss) Atlantic Monthly Oct 1914

BALL, WALTER SAVAGE

• * A Stranger in Town, (ss) Harper’s Weekly Feb 27 1915

BALL, WILLIAM DAVID (1885-1971)

• * The Man Who Paid, (ss) Every Week Apr 2 1917

BALMER, EDWIN (1883-1959)

• * The Black Star, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Feb 1914
• * The Celluloid Hero, (ss) Every Week Nov 22 1915
• * Madcap, (ss) Colliers Jan 27 1917
• * ’Mid the Flotsam of the Seas, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Sep 11 1915
• * The Ordeal of Silence, (ss) National Sunday Magazine Jan 10 1915
• * Over the Sheer’, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Apr 1915
• * Radames of the Rock Cut, (ss) Every Week Aug 23 1915
• * S. Orton, Stockholder, (ss) Every Week May 28 1917
• * The Telegraph Trail, (ss) Colliers Mar 17 1917
• * The Thing That He Did, (ss) Ladies Home Journal Jan 1917
• * With Sealed Hood, (ss) Colliers Sep 22 1917

BANCROFT, ALBERTA

• * The Nurses of Alwyn, (ss) Sunset Magazine Sep 1915

BANKS, HELEN WARD

• * Mrs. Pepper Passes, (ss) The Youth’s Companion Apr 5 1917

BARBOUR, R(alph) H(enry) (1870-1944)

• * After Millet, (ss) Pictorial Review Aug 1916
• * Artichokes to Herbs, (ss) Everybody’s Magazine Feb 1915
• * Flood-Tide, (ss) McClure’s May 1915
• * The Last Hurdle, (ss) Ladies Home Journal Oct 1915
• * Looking After Christine, (ss) Ladies Home Journal Jun 1915
• * The Man Up-Stairs, (ss) Pictorial Review Feb 1915
• * Mignonette and the Toreador, (ss) Pictorial Review Jun 1916
• * Thicker Than Water (with George Ralph Osborne), (ss)
  • Life Apr 6 1916

BARBUSSE, HENRI (1874-1935)

• * Paradis Polishes the Boots, (ss)
  • Current Opinion Dec 1917

BARCYNSKA, COUNTESS (Hélène); pseudonym of Marguerite Florence Helene Jervis Evans, (1894-1964)

• * The Dark Hour, (ss) Sunset Magazine Nov 1915
• * The King Passes, (ss) Sunset Magazine Dec 1915
• * Mothers of Men, (ss) Sunset Magazine Mar 1915
• * The Understudy, (ss) Harper’s Weekly Aug 7 1915

BARKER, GRANVILLE; pseudonym of Harley Granville-Barker, (1877-1946)

• * Souls on Fifth, (na) The Century Apr 1916

BARLOW, JAMES (Henry Stanley) (1921-1973)

• * From Him That Hath Not, (ss) Trimmed Lamp Jan 1916

BARNARD, FLOY TOLBERT (1879-?)

• * The Beloved Meddler, (ss) Harper’s Dec 1916
• * A Surprise in Perspective, (ss) Harper’s Apr 1917

BARNETT, JOHN; pseudonym of John Reginald Stagg, (1878-?)

• * The Man Who Paid, (ss) The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Jun 6 1915

BARNEY, CHARLES GORHAM, Jr.

• * The Leper, (ss) Greenwich Village May 20 1915

BARRÈS, MAURICE (1862-?)

• * “Up, Dead!”, (ss) New York Tribune May 7 1916

BARRY, RICHARD (1881-?)

• * The Legacy, (ss) The Delineator Mar 1917

BARTLETT, FREDERICK ORIN (1876-?)

• * Her Door, (ss) The Delineator Apr 1916
• * Passing It Along, (ss) National Sunday Magazine Oct 8 1916
• * The Spender, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Dec 9 1916
• * Time to Go to Newport, (ss) Every Week Jul 23 1917
• * The Young Man Who Was Always There, (ss) Ladies Home Journal Jun 1915

BARTLEY, NALBRO

• * Benedict & Company, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Oct 13 1917
• * Briggles “Goes West”, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Mar 10 1917
• * Have a Heart!, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Apr 7 1917
• * Reel True, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Nov 10 1917
• * The Total Bewitcher, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Jun 16 1917
• * The Town Mouse, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Apr 21 1917

BASCOM, LOUISE RAND

• * The Better Man, (ss) Harper’s Feb 1916
• * Carrilla’s Com (with Eva McKinley West), (ss) McBride’s Feb 1916
• * The White Shoes, (ss) Harper’s Nov 1914

BASSETT, WILLARD KENNETH

• * The End of the Line, (ss) The Smart Set Oct 1917

BATES, KATHERINE LEE (1859-1929)

• * Father Hippo, (ss) Outlook Sep 27 1916
• * A Spanish Elopement, (ss) Harper’s Mar 1915

BATES, SYLVIA CHATFIELD

• * The Canterbury Candlestick, (ss) Woman’s Home Companion Aug 1915
• * Let Nothing You Dismay, (ss) Woman’s Home Companion Dec 1917
• * Light from the Holy Hill, (ss) Woman’s World Dec 1917
• * The Vintage, (ss) Woman’s Home Companion Jul 1916

BATTYE, GLADYS STARKEY (1915- ); see pseudonym Margaret Lynn

BAUER, LUDWIG

• * The White Silence, (ss) New York Tribune Aug 13 1916

BAURY, LOUIS

• * What Is “Life"?, (ss) The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Jan 17 1915

BAX, ARNOLD (1883-1953); see pseudonym Dermot O’Byrne

BAZIN, RENÉ; (1853-?)

• * Mathurine’s Eyes, (ss) Stratford Journal Mar 1917

BEACH, ROY

• * Cline’s Injunction, (ss) Sunset Magazine Apr 1917

BEAINERD, ELEANOR HOYT

• * The Amateur Bridegroom, (ss) Pictorial Review Nov 1915
• * Cutting Out Skirts, (ss) Pictorial Review Jan 1915

BEARD, WOLCOTT LeCLEAR (1867-1937)

• * Her Friend, Sergeant John, (ss) Scribner’s Apr 1914

BEASLEY, NORMAN B.

• * The Greater Love, (ss) The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Dec 12 1915
• * The Holiday Spirit, (ss) The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Dec 3 1916

BEATTY, JEROME

• * “Attaboy!”, (ss) McClure’s Mar 1917
• * The Gee-Whiz Guy, (ss) McClure’s Aug 1917
• * “Take ’Im Out!”, (ss) McClure’s May 1917