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

Stories, Listed by Author

SCOTT, LEROY (1875-1929)

• * Apples of Oregon, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Aug 1916
• * The Case of Mary Regan, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine May 1915
• * The Fate of Mary Regan, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Nov 1917
• * The Golden Doors, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine May 1917
• * The Gordon Masterpieces, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Jul 1916
• * The Honor of Slant-Face Regan, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Jun 1915
• * Life Pulls the Strings, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Mar 1917
• * A Little Matter of Discipline, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Jun 1916
• * Mary Goes Alone, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Jul 1917
• * The Master of Dreams, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Oct 1917
• * Partners of the Night, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Oct 1916
• * The Pride of Mary Regan, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Sep 1916
• * The Return of Mary Regan, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Feb 1917
• * The Squire of Dames, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Sep 1917
• * The Testing of Mary Regan, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Aug 1917
• * The Third Watchman, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Nov 1915
• * With the Goods On, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Apr 1915

SCOTT, MARGRETTA

• * Mary Tompkins, (ss) Reedy’s Mirror Jun 16 1916
• * Miss Meyer, (ss) Reedy’s Mirror Oct 22 1915
• * Mr. Sprinkel, (ss) Reedy’s Mirror May 19 1916
• * Mrs. Miller’s Canary, (ss) Reedy’s Mirror Dec 15 1916
• * The Serious Baby, (ss) Reedy’s Mirror Dec 31 1915

SCOTT, MILDRED WILKES

• * “In Time”, (ss) The Delineator Sep 1917

SCOTT, ROSA NAOMI

• * Rachel, (ss) Colliers Dec 9 1916

SCOTT, ROSE NAOMI

• * The Chasm of a Night, (ss) Southern Woman’s Magazine Oct 1917

SEAGROVE, GORDON (K.) (1890-1963)

• * The Black Door, (ss) Life Sep 23 1915

SEARING, ANNIE ELIZA PIDGEON; [Mrs. John W. Searing] (1857-?)

• * Finding a Family, (ss) The Delineator Apr 1915

SEARS, MARY

• * Expectations, (ss)
  • Reedy’s Mirror Aug 31 1917

SEAWELL, MOLLY ELLIOT (1860-1916)

• * “The Bat” Comes To Her Own, (ss) Pictorial Review Sep 1915
• * Bettina Loved a Soldier, (ss) Pictorial Review Jan 1915
• * The Golden Voice, (ss) Associated Sunday Magazines, Inc. Apr 4 1915
• * Mary Ann and the Grand Duke, (ss) Pictorial Review Aug 1916

SEDGWICK, ANNE DOUGLAS; [Mrs. Basil de Sélincourt] (1873-1935)

• * Carnations, (ss) Atlantic Monthly Jan 1916
• * Hepaticas, (ss) Atlantic Monthly Aug 1915
• * Pansies, (ss) Atlantic Monthly Aug 1916
• * Staking a Larkspur, (ss) The Century Feb 1916

SEEFELD, HANS

• * “In the Woods Stands a Hillock”, (ss) New York Tribune Feb 4 1917

SELDES, GILBERT VIVIAN (1893-1970)

• * Emancipated, (ss) The Forum Jun 1914

SETON, ERNEST (Evan) THOMPSON (1860-1946)

• * The Making of Silly Billy, (ss) National Sunday Magazine Jan 23 1916
• * The Story of Atalapha, (ss) Scribner’s Apr 1916
• * The Story of Coaly-Bay, (ss) Colliers Jan 22 1916

SEXAU, RICHARD (1882-?)

• * Judith, (ss) New York Tribune Jul 16 1916

SHAW, [Captain] FRANK H(ubert) (1878-1960)

• * A Slave of Eros, (ss) National Sunday Magazine Apr 11 1915

SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD (1856-1950)

• * The Emperor and the Little Girl, (ss) New York Tribune Oct 22 1916

SHAWE, VICTOR

• * The Book and the Believers, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Jun 2 1917

SHEEHAN, PERLEY POORE (1875-1943)

• * The Belated Tears of Marcel, (ss) Munsey’s Jul 1915

SHELDON, MARY BOARDMAN

• * Aunts Redundant, (ss) Harper’s Jan 1917

SHELTON, GEORGE HENRY

• * Mary Long-Ago, (ss) Colliers May 9 1914

SHELTON, RICHARD BARKER; see pseudonym John Barton Oxford

• * The Ally, (ss) The Delineator Aug 1916
• * The Quest and the Question, (ss) Munsey’s Aug 1916

SHEPHERD, WILLIAM GUNN

• * The Bell, (ss) The Bellman Feb 17 1917
• * The Scar that Tripled, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Jul 1917

SHERRARD, MARION

• * Kidnapping a Cook, (ss) The American Magazine Feb 1916
• * The Rustlers’ Pay, (ss) Colliers Oct 17 1914

SHERWOOD, MARGARET

• * The Clearest Voice, (ss) Atlantic Monthly Jul 1915

SHIPP, MARGARET BUSBEE (1871-?)

• * A Kitten in the Market, (ss) Everybody’s Magazine Aug 1917

SHIPPEY, (Henry) LEE (1884-1969)

• * Uncle Joe’s Romance, (ss) Harper’s Sep 1915

SHIPPEY, MARY WOODSON

• * His Rival, (ss) Southern Woman’s Magazine Jun 1916

SHOLL, ANNA McCLURE

• * Only Seven Days Until Christmas, (ss) Ladies Home Journal Dec 1916

SHORT, O’DONOVAN

• * The God of Happy Chance, (ss) Sunset Magazine Sep 1915
• * A Good Loser, (ss) Sunset Magazine Feb 1915

SHOWERMAN, GRANT (1870-?)

• * A Country Christmas, (ss) The Century Dec 1917
• * The Dance, (ss) The Century Sep 1916
• * Old Neighbors, (ss) The Midland Oct 1917
• * The Runaways, (ss) The Century Oct 1916
• * Summertime, (ss) The Midland Sep 1917
• * The Wheat Harvest, (ss) The Century Aug 1916

SHULGOVSKY, N.

• * A Tragedy in Russian, (ss) Boston Evening Transcript Oct 16 1915

SIENKIEWICZ, HENRYK (1846-1916)

• * Peter and Paul on Olympus, (ss)
  • Reedy’s Mirror Dec 15 1916

SIMMONS, LAURA

• * Miss Alicia, (ss) Craftsman Dec 1916

SIMPICH, FREDERICK (1878-1950)

• * Distinguished Service, (ss) Lippincott’s May 1915
• * The Gall of Gopher Jones, (ss) McBride’s Mar 1916

SIMPSON, HORACE J.

• * The Epic of Old Cark, (ss) The Black Cat Apr 1917

SIMPSON, JOHN LOWREY

• * A Holiday in France, (ss) The New Republic Oct 20 1917

SIMRALL, JOSEPHINE P.

• * “Charity”, (ss) Lippincott’s Aug 1915

SIMS, CHARLES N.

• * Love at Patty-Cake, (ss) Colliers Nov 14 1914
• * Love’s Water Test, (ss) Colliers Jan 10 1914

SINCLAIR, MAY (1863-1946)

• * The Collector, (ss) The Century Jan 1914
• * The Pin-Prick, (ss) Harper’s Feb 1915
• * Portrait of My Uncle, (ss) The Century Jan 1917

SINGMASTER, ELSIE; [Mrs. Harold Lewars] (1879-1958)

• * The Christmas Angel, (ss) Pictorial Review Dec 1917
• * The Cure of Mr. Boyer, (ss) The Youth’s Companion May 4 1916
• * The Eye of Youth, (ss) Boston Evening Transcript Sep 19 1917
• * The Flag of Eliphalet, (ss) Boston Evening Transcript May 29 1917
• * The High Constable, (ss) Outlook Apr 28 1915
• * The House of Dives, (ss) The Bellman Nov 10 1917
• * The Ishmaelite, (ss) The Century Jun 1914
  • The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Oct 3 1915
• * A Late Transplanting, (ss) The Youth’s Companion May 25 1916
• * No Friend to Santa Claus, (ss) Woman’s Home Companion Dec 1916
• * A Pair of Lovers, (ss) Scribner’s Nov 1915
• * Penance, (ss) Pictorial Review Oct 1916
• * The Stutterer, (ss) The Bellman Jul 8 1916
• * The Survivors, (ss) Outlook May 26 1915
  • The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Apr 30 1916

SKINNER, CONSTANCE LINDSAY (1879-1939)

• * Contraband of War, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Jun 12 1915
• * The Label, (ss) Every Week Mar 19 1917

SKITALETS; pseudonym of Stepan Gavrilovich Petrov

• * And the Forest Burned, (ss) The Russian Review Feb 1917

SMALE, FRED C.

• * Afterwards, (ss) Scribner’s Jun 1916

SMITH, ELIZABETH C. A.; see pseudonym John Breck

SMITH, EUGENE

• * A Sophistry of Art, (ss) Life Jan 6 1916

SMITH, F. BERKELEY

• * The Watch, (ss) Pictorial Review Dec 1915

SMITH, FRANK LEON

• * Between the Lines, (ss) Everybody’s Magazine Mar 1915
• * Business and Partners, (ss) Colliers Apr 18 1914
• * “Here Comes Grover!”, (ss) The Century Oct 1915
• * An Idea for a Comic, (nv) Everybody’s Magazine Jan 1915

SMITH, FREDERICK M(iller) (1870-?)

• * Under False Pretenses, (ss) Harper’s Jan 1914

SMITH, GORDON ARTHUR (1886-?)

• * City of Lights, (ss) Scribner’s Dec 1914
• * The End of the Road, (ss) Scribner’s Aug 1917
• * Every Move, (ss) Scribner’s Jun 1914
• * Feet of Gold, (nv) Scribner’s Aug 1916
• * A Friend of the People, (ss) Pictorial Review Oct 1917
• * Jeanne the Maid, (ss) Scribner’s Dec 1915
• * Letitia, (ss) Scribner’s Aug 1915
• * The Reluctant Prince, (ss) Scribner’s Aug 1914
• * Tropic Madness, (ss) Scribner’s Dec 1916

SMITH, KATE

• * Near the Turn of the Road, (ss) The Forum Jun 1917

SMITH, LEWIS WORTHINGTON (1866-?)

• * Chasing a Holiday, (ss) Reedy’s Mirror Jun 18 1915

SMITH, W. EDSON

• * From Daybreak to Breakfast, (ss) Colliers Sep 5 1914

SNAITH, J(ohn) C(ollis) (1876-1936)

• * The Gentlemanly Thing, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Jun 27 1914

SNEDDON, ROBERT W(illiam) (1880-1944)

• * A Book of Verse, (ss) The Bellman Jan 23 1915
• * Bright Star of Onésime, (ss) Snappy Stories Oct 18 1917
• * Dead Yesterday, (ss) The Bellman Jan 22 1916
• * The Doll, (ss) Snappy Stories Jun 4 1917
• * “The Field of Honour”, (ss) The Bellman Aug 21 1915
• * The Genius, (ss) Munsey’s Jan 1916
• * The Gray Cat, (ss) Snappy Stories Dec 1 1916
• * The Greater Sin, (ss) Snappy Stories Jan 7 1916
• * The Green Cigar-Band, (ss) Snappy Stories May 5 1916
• * The Hero, (ss) Harper’s Weekly Jul 24 1915
• * “I Shew You a Mystery”, (ss) Snappy Stories Oct 4 1917
• * The Joke They Played on Curwen, (ss) The Smart Set May 1916
• * Le Rabonin—Soldier of France, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post May 12 1917
• * The Legacy of Monsieur Poivrot, (ss) Snappy Stories Feb 18 1916
• * “The Miracle of Noel”, (ss) Romance Jan 1916
• * The Miracle of Spring, (ss) The Ladies’ World May 1916
• * “Mirror! Mirror! Tell Me True!”, (ss) The Bellman Feb 3 1917
• * The Musician, (ss) The Bellman May 1 1915
• * The Mute, (ss) The Bellman Dec 15 1917
• * A Nest for Ninette, (ss) Parisienne Jun 1917
• * An Old Man Without a Son, (ss) Scribner’s Nov 1916
• * One Mother, (ss) The Bellman May 22 1915
  • The Bellman Jul 1 1916
• * Out of Darkness, (ss) The Bellman Jul 15 1916
• * “Petit Popo”, (ss) The Bellman Mar 11 1916
• * Prosperity’s Pinch, (ss) Parisienne Oct 1917
• * The Red-Haired Woman, (ss) The Bellman Jan 8 1916
• * “Somewhere in Paradise”, (ss) Snappy Stories Jul 7 1916
• * The Song of Charlot, (ss) Snappy Stories Jul 21 1916
• * “Two Children”, (ss) Snappy Stories Nov 3 1916
• * The Two Who Waited, (ss) Saucy Stories Oct 1917
• * The Violet, (ss) The Bellman May 27 1916
• * A Woman in the City, (ss) Harper’s Weekly Jun 26 1915

SNYDER, ELIZABETH HARDING

• * The Old Maid Prospect, (ss) Everybody’s Magazine Apr 1915

SOCIAL PROMOTER, THE

• * The Brief Career of Matty Vandam, (ss) Associated Sunday Magazines, Inc. Apr 18 1915
• * The Triple Entente, (ss) Associated Sunday Magazines, Inc. Feb 14 1915

SOLOGUB, FYODOR; pseudonym of Fëdor Kuzmich Teternikov, (1863-1927)

• * The White Dog, (ss) The Old House and Other Tales, Secker 1915
  • The Pagan Jun 1916

SOLOMONS, THEODORE SEIXAS

• * The Eskimo Messenger, (ss) Colliers Feb 6 1915