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

Stories, Listed by Author

MILNE, A(lan) A(lexander) (1882-1956)

• * Our Magazine Story, (ss) The Century Jul 1915

MINER, JESSIE S.

• * A Little Flier in Culture, (ss) Scribner’s Mar 1916

MINITER, EDITH

• * Worthless Neighbors, (ss) Colliers Aug 1 1914

MINNIGERODE, MEADE (1877-1967)

• * Macaroons, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Feb 24 1917
• * Some Men and a Lady, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Dec 30 1916

MINUIT, PETER

• * The Class of 19—, (ss) Seven Arts Jun 1917
• * A Modern Accident, (ss) Seven Arts Apr 1917

MIRRIELEES, EDITH RONALD

• * The Hero Business, (ss) Everybody’s Magazine Jun 1915

MITCHELL, MARY ESTHER

• * The Asher Pride, (ss) Harper’s Sep 1916
• * The Dumb Peterses, (ss) Harper’s May 1916
• * Miss Barcy’s Waterloo, (ss) Harper’s Oct 1917
• * A New England Pippa, (ss) Harper’s Nov 1915
• * The Smaller Craft, (ss) Harper’s Mar 1917
• * A Strike in the Mines, (ss) Harper’s Nov 1917
• * “Then Came David”, (ss) Harper’s Sep 1917

MITCHELL, RUTH COMFORT (1899-1954)

• * The Call, (ss) Reedy’s Mirror Mar 30 1917
  • New York Tribune Apr 15 1917
• * The Glory Girl, (ss) The Century Dec 1917
• * Jane Meets an Extremely Civil Engineer, (ss) The Century Sep 1917
• * Jane Proposes, (ss) The Century Jan 1916
• * Jane Puts It Over, (ss) The Century Jan 1917
• * Let Nothing You Dismay!, (ss) Reedy’s Mirror Dec 21 1917

MJLLER, HUGH S.

• * The Storm Song, (ss) Harper’s Dec 1916

MOISE, E. E.

• * The Streak of Gold, (ss) Colliers Aug 8 1914

MOLNAR, FRANZ

• * A Magyar Paladin, (ss) New York Tribune Apr 2 1916

MOLT, H. F.

• * The Shawl of Kassim, (ss) New York Evening Sun Oct 26 1916

MONTAGUE, MARGARET PRESCOTT (1878-1955)

• * The Enchanted Princess, (ss) Volta Review Jul 1916
• * The Little Sign for Friend, (ss) Atlantic Monthly May 1914
• * Marked for the Unexpected, (ss) The Delineator Jun 1916
• * Of Water and the Spirit, (ss) Atlantic Monthly May 1916
• * Something Big, Like Red Bird, (ss) Atlantic Monthly Aug 1914
• * What Mr. Grey Said, (ss) Atlantic Monthly May 1915

MONTGOMERY, LESLIE ALEXANDER; see pseudonym Lynn Doyle

MOORE, JAMES MERRIAM

• * On an Old Army Post, (ss) Atlantic Monthly Jul 1917

MOORE, T. P.

• * The Dead Letter, (ss) Colliers Jun 5 1915

MORDAUNT, ELINOR; pseudonym of Evelyn May Clowes Mordaunt Wiehe, (1877-1942)

• * The Gold Fish, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Feb 1917
• * A Puff of Wind, (ss) The Red Magazine Jun 15 1910
  • McBride’s Dec 1915
• * The Twisted Thread, (ss) The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Sep 26 1915

MORGAN, GERALD

• * The Middle Ear, (ss) The Black Cat Sep 1916

MORLEY, CHRISTOPHER (Darlington) (1890-1957)

• * A Question of Plumage, (ss) The Bellman Jan 20 1917
• * Revenge, (ss) Boston Evening Transcript Feb 28 1917
• * Rhubarb, (ss) Colliers Dec 29 1917

MOROSO, JOHN A(ntonio) (1874-1957)

• * The Bells, (ss) Colliers Oct 14 1916
• * Brown and Son, (ss) The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Apr 23 1916
• * Buddy and Waffles, (ss) Ladies Home Journal Aug 1915
• * Carl Blum of the Ninth, (ss) The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Jan 3 1915
• * Dad, (ss) The American Magazine May 1917
• * Finnerty, (ss) The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Apr 25 1915
• * The Foppishness of Armistead, (ss) The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Jul 2 1916
• * Four Little Soldiers, (ss) The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Dec 17 1916
• * Garibald’, (ss) The American Magazine Sep 1915
• * Giddap, (ss) The American Magazine Jan 1915
• * Heads or Tails?, (ss) The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Jan 2 1916
• * The House Next Door, (ss) The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Aug 8 1915
• * The Light in the Window, (ss) Woman’s World Feb 1917
• * Lupo, (ss) Colliers May 29 1915
• * Maggie, (ss) The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Oct 28 1917
• * The Miracle of Poverty Hollow, (ss) The American Magazine May 1916
• * Mister Jones, (ss) The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Mar 4 1917
• * Murphy of the Legion, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Aug 1914
• * Nan of Number Nineteen, (ss) The American Magazine Jan 1916
• * Papa Popineau, (ss) The Delineator Aug 1916
• * Poor ’Toinette, (ss) The Delineator Oct 1917
• * The Shoes that Danced, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Dec 1917
• * Three-Alarm Casey, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Aug 1915
• * A Tryst in Heaven, (ss) Southern Woman’s Magazine Feb 1916
• * Uncle Jules, (ss) The Delineator Apr 1917

MORRIS, CHARLOTTE FITZHUGH

• * Uplift, (ss) Atlantic Monthly Oct 1916

MORRIS, CLARA (1849-?)

• * Psychology of a Suicide, (ss) The Forum Aug 1915

MORRIS, GOUVERNEUR (1876-1953)

• * The Bluffs of Jordan, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Jan 1915
• * “Death in Both Pockets”, (ss) Harper’s Bazaar Sep 1917
• * Doing Her Bit, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Sep 22 1917
• * Golgotha, (ss) Cosmopolitan Nov 1915
• * Honor Thy Father, (ss) Harper’s Bazaar Oct 1917
• * Mary May and Miss Phyllis, (ss) Harper’s Bazaar Nov 1917
• * Romance, (ss) Pictorial Review Apr 1915
• * A Senator in Pelham Bay Park, (ss) Colliers Dec 8 1917
• * Tango Taught in Ten Teachings, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Apr 1914
• * When is a Promise Not a Promise?, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine May 1915
• * When the Devil Was Better, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Feb 1914
  • The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Jan 16 1916

MORSE, EDWIN W.

• * The Trick of the Voice, (ss) Scribner’s Jun 1914

MORTEN, MARJORY

• * Krujer Hobbs, (ss) The Century Aug 1916
• * Sophy So-and-So, (ss) Harper’s Aug 1915
• * A Transit of Venus, (ss) The Century Nov 1916
• * Veiled Island, (ss) The Century Jul 1916

MORTON, JOHNSON

• * Henrietta Intervenes, (ss) Harper’s Sep 1917
• * The Understudy, (ss) Harper’s Aug 1917

MUENZER, KURT

• * “Weltfried”, (ss) New York Tribune Jan 21 1917

MUILENBURG, WALTER J(ohn) (1893- )

• * At the End of the Road, (ss) The Forum May 1916
  • The Illustrated Sunday Magazine May 27 1917
• * Brothers of the Road, (ss) The Midland Sep 1916
• * Heart of Youth, (ss) The Midland Nov 1915
• * The Prairie, (ss) The Midland Aug 1915
• * Thanksgiving Lost and Found, (ss) To-day’s Housewife Nov 1917

MUIR, BLISS

• * The Wedding Dress, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Jul 1917

MUIR, WARD (1878-1927)

• * The Unflawed Friendship, (ss) The Smart Set Jan 1917

MULTATULI; pseudonym of Eduard Douwes Dekker

• * Sermon on the Mountain, (ss) Bruno’s Weekly Oct 14 1915

MUMFORD, ETHEL WATTS; [i.e., Ethel Watts Mumford Grant] (1878-1940)

• * The Arabian Days of Jimmy Jennette, (ss) The Century Jun 1916
• * The Bells of Cullam, (ss) Scribner’s Nov 1916
• * Bounty, (ss) Good Housekeeping May 1917
• * An Embarrassment of Riches, (ss) National Sunday Magazine May 14 1916
• * The Girl and the Governor, (ss) National Sunday Magazine Jun 25 1916
• * The Miracle of Neith, (ss) Pictorial Review Nov 1915
• * “My Ain Countree”, (ss) The Delineator Jan 1915
• * The Opal Morning, (ss) McClure’s Apr 1917
• * The Power and the Glory, (ss) Colliers Jul 3 1915
• * The Second Sight of Hepsey McLean, (ss) Colliers Jul 28 1917
• * Squaw, (ss) Colliers Jul 15 1916

MUMFORD, JOHN

• * Reorganizing Reggie, (ss) Sunset Magazine Jul 1915

MUMFORD-GRANT, ETHEL WATTS; see under Mumford, Ethel Watts

MUNDY, TALBOT; pseudonym of William Lancaster Gribbon, (1879-1940)

• * Sam Bagg of the Gabriel Group, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Mar 11 1916

MUNFORD, JOSEPHINE UNDERWOOD

• * Georgina’s American Triumph, (ss) The Delineator Jan 1915

MUREDACH, MYLES; pseudonym of Francis Clement Kelley, (1870-1948)

• * The Race of the O’Murchada, (ss) Colliers Nov 7 1914

MURRAY, KATHARINE J.

• * For Old Sake’s Sake, (ss) The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Oct 24 1915

MURRAY, P. A., Jr.

• * Counsel Fees, (ss) The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Mar 21 1915

MURRAY, ROY IRVING

• * Rudolph in Repertoire, (ss) Scribner’s Apr 1916
• * Sealed Orders, (ss) McBride’s Dec 1915

MUTH, EDNA TUCKER

• * Junior, of the Bathtub, (ss) Ladies Home Journal Oct 1916
• * The Lemon in the Game, (ss) Ladies Home Journal Nov 1915

MYERS, ELIZABETH

• * The Lace Shawl, (ss) The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Oct 3 1915

MYERS, RUTH HERRICK

• * The Storm, (ss) Pictorial Review Jul 1916

MYERS, WALTER L.

• * Jn the Uplands, (ss) The Midland Mar 1916
• * Mates, (ss) The Midland Apr 1915

NAFE, GERTRUDE (1883-?)

• * One Hundred Dollars, (ss) The Century Feb 1917

NEEDHAM, HENRY BEACH (1871-1915)

• * Thief in Khaki, (ss) Colliers Aug 14 1915
• * A Treeful of Owls, (ss) Colliers Feb 14 1914

NEELY, SARAH C.

• * While the Surgeon Waited, (ss) The American Magazine Nov 1916

NEIDIG, WILLIAM J(onathan) (1870-1955)

• * The Camel from Home, (ss) Harper’s Oct 1917
• * The Flight, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Mar 4 1916
• * The Gunman, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Mar 10 1917
• * The Hair of the Dog, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Dec 15 1917
• * Mrs. Nemesis, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Dec 23 1916
• * The Slipper Tongue, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Jun 3 1916
• * A Touch of Sun, (ss) The Century Feb 1916

NETTO, COELHO

• * The Pigeons, (ss) Stratford Journal Dec 1917

NEURATH, KARL (1883-?)

• * Little Engelbert, (ss) New York Tribune Nov 26 1916

NEVINS, ALLAN (1890-1971)

• * The Dogs of Joe Gone, (ss) The New Republic Nov 13 1915

NEWELL, MAUDE WOODRUFF

• * Her “Cut-Out”, (ss) Ladies Home Journal Jan 1916

NEWTON, ALFRED NEVIL WELLS (1906-1984); see pseudonym Peter Newton

NEWTON, (Wilfrid) DOUGLAS (1884-1951)

• * The Charge, (ss) Pictorial Review Feb 1915
• * The Telegraphist, (ss) The Bellman Feb 13 1915
• * The Trimmer, (ss) The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Aug 29 1915

NEWTON, PETER; pseudonym of Alfred Nevil Wells Newton, (1906-1984)

• * The Talisman, (ss)
  • Reedy’s Mirror Sep 8 1916

NEWTON, W. DOUGLAS; see under Newton, Douglas

NICHOLS, WILLIAM T.

• * The Other Woman, (ss) The Century Feb 1915

NICHOLSON, MEREDITH (1866-1947)

• * Arabella’s House Party, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Nov 21 1914
• * The Boulevard of Rogues, (ss) Atlantic Monthly Dec 1915
• * The Church for Honest Sinners, (ss) Atlantic Monthly Feb 1915
• * Doubtful Dollars, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Jan 13 1917
• * The Girl at the Ad Counter, (ss) Colliers Jul 4 1914
• * The Heart Cure at Banning Farms, (ss) Every Week May 17 1915
• * The Heart of Life, (ss) Scribner’s Dec 1917
• * Honor Bright, (ss) Harper’s Aug 1915
• * The Hopper, (ss) Colliers Dec 30 1916
• * The Imprudences of Prudence, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Jan 3 1914
• * The Lady of Landor Lane, (ss) Atlantic Monthly Feb 1914
• * Landon’s Legacy, (ss) Colliers Jan 8 1916
• * The Last of the Kings, (ss) Colliers Sep 26 1914
• * Made in Mazooma, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Feb 1917
• * The Man with the Lantern, (ss) Colliers Feb 19 1916