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

Stories, Listed by Author

MacMANUS, SEUMAS (continued)

• * The Lord Mayor of Buffalo, (ss) The Delineator Oct 1917
• * The Mad Man, the Dead Man, and the Devil, (ss) Pictorial Review Apr 1917
• * The Man Who Would Dream, (ss) Pictorial Review Apr 1915
• * The Mistress of Magic, (ss) Pictorial Review Mar 1915
• * Mr. Devereux’s Twist, (ss) Ladies Home Journal Aug 1916
• * The Tune That Came Out of the Fiddle, (ss) Ladies Home Journal Sep 1916
• * “Unto the Least of These”, (ss) Colliers Aug 29 1914

McMORROW, THOMAS (1886-1957)

• * Paying Off the Swede, (ss) Everybody’s Magazine Jan 1915

MACNAMAR, R. S.

• * He That Will Not, (ss) The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Jan 10 1915

McNEILE, H(erman) C(yril) (1888-1937); see pseudonym Sapper

MacNICHOL, KENNETH (1887-?)

• * Long Live Liberty!, (ss) Colliers Jun 2 1917

McPEAK, IVAL

• * Long—Short—and a Long, (ss) The Midland Oct 1915

MacVANE, EDITH (1880-?)

• * The Lonely Light, (ss) Every Week Aug 14 1916

MADDEN, ALMA G.

• * The Compact, (ss) Harper’s Feb 1915

MADEIROS e ALBUQUERQUE, JOSÉ de

• * The Vengeance of Felix, (ss) Stratford Journal Dec 1917

MAGRUDER, MARY LANIER

• * The Courting Candle, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Jun 19 1915
• * Feud and Flood, (ss) Colliers Feb 7 1914
• * First Love, (ss) Colliers Jul 18 1914
• * The Lonely Road, (ss) Colliers Jul 31 1915
• * The Quitter, (ss) Every Week Apr 17 1916

MANN, JANE

• * Fighting the Surf, (ss) Colliers Oct 24 1914

MANNING, MARIE; [Mrs. Herman E. Gasch] (1878-1945)

• * Buffy’s Hegira, (ss) Harper’s Jul 1914
• * A Choice of Romeos, (ss) Harper’s Dec 1915
• * Curls, Caesar—Maternal Instinct, (ss) Colliers Aug 7 1915
• * The Elixir, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Apr 10 1915
• * Her Tribal Enemy, (ss) Harper’s Feb 1916
• * Miss Donnithorne’s Arabian Night, (ss) Harper’s Jun 1915
• * Mr. Swift’s Romance, (ss) Harper’s Nov 1915
• * No Clue, (ss) McClure’s Jun 1917
• * The Out-of-Door Janitor, (ss) Colliers Nov 13 1915
• * The Seventeen-Year Locusts, (ss) Pictorial Review Jun 1917
• * The Statesman, (ss) Harper’s Jan 1914
• * The Wetmore Clothes, (ss) Harper’s Aug 1914

MANNS, M. ALFRED

• * The Abandoned Telephone, (ss) New York Tribune Dec 10 1916

MARKS, JEANNETTE A. (1875-?)

• * The Golden Door, (ss) The Bellman Apr 7 1917
• * The Sun Chaser, (nv) Pictorial Review Nov 1916

MARNT, RET

• * The Flyer Without a Heart, (ss) New York Tribune Dec 3 1916

MARQUIS, DON(ald Robert Perry) (1878-1937)

• * Being a Public Character, (ss) The American Magazine Sep 1917
• * Blood Will Tell, (ss) The American Magazine Nov 1915
• * The Iliad of the Oyster, (ss) National Sunday Magazine Aug 20 1916
• * The Mulatto, (ss) Harper’s Apr 1916

MARRIOTT, CHARLES (1869-1957)

• * Rabbits, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Sep 1914

MARRIOTT, CRITTENDEN (1867-1932)

• * The Broken Monument, (ss) The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Nov 7 1915
• * God’s Messenger, (ss) Every Week Jul 16 1917
• * The Law and the Lady, (ss) Pictorial Review Sep 1915
• * Mary Carr’s Son, (ss) Today’s Magazine Oct 1916
• * On Her Own Ground, (ss) Pictorial Review Aug 1915
• * Once To Every Woman, (ss) Every Week Feb 28 1916
• * The Quitter, (ss) The Illustrated Sunday Magazine May 9 1915
• * Uncle Moses Plays Cupid, (ss) The Delineator Sep 1915

MARRIOTT, JAMES WILLIAM (1884-1953); see pseudonym Roger Wray

MARSH, GEORGE T.

• * For the Great Father, (ss) Scribner’s Mar 1917
• * A Little Tragedy at Coocoocache, (ss) Scribner’s Aug 1915
• * Out of the Mist, (ss) The Century Apr 1917
• * The Quest of Narcisse Lablanche, (ss) Scribner’s May 1916
• * The Valley of the Windigo, (ss) Scribner’s Jun 1917
• * When the Prince Came Home, (ss) Scribner’s May 1914
• * With the White Mail, (ss) Scribner’s Jan 1914

MARSH, RICHARD; pseudonym of Richard B. Heldmann, (1867-1915)

• * The Princess Fredegonda, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Jul 4 1914

MARSHALL, D. J.

• * Private Williams and Mutt, (ss) Colliers Feb 21 1914

MARSHALL, EDISON (Tesla) (1894-1967)

• * Chicago Charlie Lancelot, (ss) The American Magazine Sep 1917
• * The Man That Was in Him, (ss) The American Magazine Aug 1917
• * The Missing Seventeen, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post May 20 1916
• * Vagabond or Gentleman?, (ss) The American Magazine Jun 1917

MARSHALL, RACHAEL

• * The Heroizing of Amos Chubby (with Maverick Terrell), (ss) Pictorial Review Aug 1917

MARTIN, MRS. ATTWOOD R. (1866-?); see pseudonym George Madden Martin

MARTIN, GEORGE MADDEN; pseudonym of Attwood R. Martin, Mrs., (1866-?)

• * Emmy Lou’s Recruiting Day, (ss) McClure’s Nov 1915

MARTIN, KATHARINE

• * Celebrating Father, (ss) Ladies Home Journal Nov 1917

MARTIN, MABEL WOOD

• * Charity, (ss) Scribner’s Jan 1914

MARTIN, MARGARET BURROWS

• * “Something Like Us”, (ss) Everybody’s Magazine Jul 1916
• * The True from the False, (ss) Pictorial Review Sep 1915

MARTYN, WYNDHAM (1875-?)

• * The Explorer, (ss) The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Mar 28 1915
• * The Old Marquis, (ss) The Smart Set Nov 1916

MASON, A(lfred) E(dward) W(oodley) (1865-1948)

• * North of the Tropic of Capricorn, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Jan 1914
• * One of Them, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Mar 1916
• * Raymond Byatt, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Dec 1914
• * The Silver Ship, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Jan 1917
• * The Violet Book, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Feb 1915

MASON, ELMER BROWN

• * The Old Club, (ss) Lippincott’s Mar 1915

MASON, GRACE SARTWELL (1877-?)

• * For I’m To Be Queen of the May, (ss) Every Week Apr 30 1917
• * Jessie Passes, (ss) Every Week Feb 5 1917
• * The Lady with the Comic Sense, (nv) Everybody’s Magazine May 1916
• * The Night Run, (ss) Every Week Feb 28 1916
• * Pep, (ss) Every Week Nov 20 1916
• * The Potato Soldier, (ss) Every Week Nov 12 1917
• * Something for Father, (ss) Every Week Dec 20 1915
• * Summer Wives, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Nov 1917
• * Sunday Afternoon, (ss) Everybody’s Magazine Oct 1915
• * The Woman Who Was a Shadow, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Aug 1917

MASON, WARREN

• * His Own Business, (ss) The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Mar 14 1915
• * A Splash in the Bosphorus, (ss) The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Apr 18 1915

MASSON, THOMAS L(ansing) (1886-1934)

• * An Easy Solution, (ss) The New Republic May 6 1916

MASTERS, EDGAR LEE (1869-1950)

• * Boyhood Friends, (ss) The Yale Review Jan 1917
• * Widow La Rue, (ss) Reedy’s Mirror Jan 19 1917

MATHEWS, AMANDA (1866-?)

• * Cormac O’Brien, Piper, (ss) Scribner’s Mar 1914
• * The Emigration of Mary Anne, (ss) Atlantic Monthly Jan 1914

MATSUMURA, KEISEKI

• * Araki Mataemon (The Fencing Master) (with C. M. Cady), (ss) Outlook Jul 14 1915
• * Hakuin Jenji (The Hater of Hypocrisy) (with C. M. Cady), (ss) Outlook Jul 21 1915
• * Hojo Soun (A Model Feudal Lord) (with C. M. Cady), (ss) Outlook Jul 21 1915

MATTHEWS, FRANCES AYMAR

• * Marie Rose of Mustard Street, (ss) Southern Woman’s Magazine Dec 1916

MAXWELL, W. KEE

• * The Baseball Mascot, (ss) Colliers Mar 7 1914

MAXWELL, WILLIAM BABINGTON

• * The Woman’s Portion, (ss) Everybody’s Magazine Dec 1917

MAY, NOBLE

• * Mabel Plays the Game, (ss) The American Magazine Feb 1917

MEAD, LEON

• * The Master of Lumberhurst, (ss) Colliers Dec 5 1914

MEAKER, S. D.

• * A Man’s Own Wife, (ss) Scribner’s Apr 1917

MEARS, MARY

• * Nan, (ss) The Forum Jul 1915

MELBOURNE, HAROLD

• * Dora Was Different, (ss)
  • Reedy’s Mirror May 19 1916

MELLETT, BERTHE KNATVOLD (?-1938)

• * The Free Woman, (ss) Colliers Aug 12 1916
• * Kolinsky, (ss) Colliers Mar 10 1917
• * “Like the Book”, (ss) The Century Apr 1915
• * Those Things Which Are Mine, (ss) Colliers Oct 7 1916

MELONEY, WILLIAM BROWN

• * The Everlasting Miracle, (ss) Every Week Oct 4 1915
• * Jonah, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Aug 21 1915
• * The Squarehead, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post May 30 1914

MENA, MARÍA CRISTINA

• * The Birth of the God of War, (ss) The Century May 1914
• * Doña Rita’s Rivals, (ss) The Century Sep 1914
• * The Education of Popo, (ss) The Century Mar 1914
• * The Emotions of Maria Concepción, (ss) The Century Jan 1914
• * Marriage by Miracle, (ss) The Century Mar 1916
• * The Sorcerer and General Bisco, (ss) The Century Apr 1915
• * The Vine-Leaf, (ss) The Century Dec 1914

MENCKEN, H(enry) L(ouis) (1880-1956); see pseudonym William Drayham

• * Halls, (ss) The Smart Set Apr 1916

MERCHANT, ABBY

• * The Presentiment, (ss) Harper’s Jul 1917

MERWIN, SAMUEL (1874-1936)

• * The Broadway Thing, (ss) Cosmopolitan Dec 1915

METCALF, THOMAS NEWELL

• * Martin’s Chickens, (ss) The Century Nov 1917

MEYER, ERNEST L.

• * Non Compos Mentis, (ss)
  • Reedy’s Mirror Feb 16 1917

MEYER, JOSEPHINE AMELIA (1884-?)

• * Apprenticeship, (ss) Lippincott’s May 1915
• * Fighting-Stock, (ss) Everybody’s Magazine Sep 1915

MEZQUIDA, ANNA BLAKE

• * The Tiptoe House, (ss) Sunset Magazine Dec 1915

MIDDLETON, J(esse) E(dgar) (1872-1960)

• * Tillson (Dorothy) - Reference Section, (ss) The Smart Set Jul 1916

MILES, EMMA BELL (1879-?)

• * At the Top of Sourwood, (ss) Lippincott’s Aug 1915
• * The Destroying Angel, (ss) Southern Woman’s Magazine May 1917

MILLARD, GERTRUDE B.

• * The Transfiguration of Angelita Lopez, (ss) The Century Aug 1914

MILLE, PIERRE (1864-1941)

• * How They Do It, (ss) New York Tribune Jul 8 1917
• * The Man Who Was Afraid, (ss) New York Tribune Jun 24 1917
• * The Soldier Who Conquered Sleep, (ss) New York Tribune Mar 11 1917

MILLER, ALICE DUER; [Mrs. Henry Wise Miller] (1874-1942)

• * Home Influence, (ss) Harper’s Jan 1916
• * Middle Age, (ss) Scribner’s May 1915
• * The Relapse, (ss) Harper’s May 1915
• * What Every Man Should Know, (ss) The Century Feb 1916
• * Worse Than Married (with Henry Wise Miller), (ss) Scribner’s Apr 1914

MILLER, HELEN T(opping) (1884-1960)

• * The Butterfly, (ss) The Delineator Sep 1916
• * First Peter, (ss) Munsey’s Sep 1915
• * From Wimbleton to Wambleton, (ss) The Delineator Mar 1917
• * Frost Blossoms, (ss) The Delineator Oct 1915
• * Look Away, (ss) Southern Woman’s Magazine May 1916
• * The Oldest Nurse, (ss) The Delineator Mar 1916

MILLER, HENRY WISE

• * Worse Than Married (with Alice Duer Miller), (ss) Scribner’s Apr 1914

MILLER, LAURA

• * The Story of the K’ang-hsi Vase, (ss) Outlook Jul 26 1916