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

Stories, Listed by Author

BRALEY, BERTON (continued)

• * The Wise Shift, (ss) The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Aug 15 1915

BRAY, CHESTER FAIRCLO

• * The Man Who Had Been Trained, (ss) New York Evening Sun Dec 16 1916

BRAY, MARY

• * It Might Have Been Worse, (ss) The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Apr 18 1915

BRECK, JOHN; pseudonym of Elizabeth C. A. Smith

• * From Hungary, (ss) The Bookman Dec 1917
• * The Man Who Was Afraid, (ss) Everybody’s Magazine Sep 1917

BRENNER, WALTER DUNDORE

• * Measured by the Golden Rule, (ss) Colliers Jun 17 1916
• * Putting One Over", (ss) Colliers Aug 15 1914
• * Tweedy’s Tryout, (ss) Colliers Mar 27 1915

BRENTANO, JOSEPH P.

• * The Mystery of a Cork Leg, (ss) The Bellman Aug 19 1916

BRERBOHM, MAX

• * A. V. Laider, (ss) The Century Jun 1916
• * Enoch Soames, (ss) The Century May 1916

BRIGGS, GEORGE A.

• * Trade at Home, (ss)
  • Reedy’s Mirror Dec 15 1916

BRONSON-HOWARD, GEORGE (Fitzalan) (1884-1922)

• * The Higher Law, (ss) The Century Oct 1914
• * Monsieur Bluebeard, (ss) The Century Sep 1915
• * The Ninety Black Boxes of Bishop Balue, (ss) The Century Jun 1915
• * The Oubliette, (ss) The Century Sep 1914
• * The Romaunt of the Rose, (ss) The Century Jun 1914
• * Shadows, (ss) The Century Feb 1914
• * Stronger Than the Law, (ss) Every Week May 29 1916

BROOKE, L.

• * Knives and Forks, (ss) Scribner’s Nov 1914

BROOKE, LOUISA

• * The Love Letters of Nancy, (ss) New York Evening Sun Dec 4 1916

BROOKS, ALDEN

• * The Belgian, (ss) Colliers May 27 1916
• * The Man From America, (ss) The Century Jul 1917
• * The Parisian, (ss) Colliers Jan 22 1916
• * The Prussian, (ss) Colliers Oct 28 1916
• * The Three Slavs, (ss) Colliers May 5 1917

BROOKS, WALTER R(ollin) (1886-1958)

• * Harden’s Chance, (ss) The Forum Dec 1915

BROWN, ALICE (1856-1948)

• * A Citizen and His Wife, (ss) Colliers Nov 4 1916
• * The Flags on the Tower, (ss) Harper’s Apr 1915
• * The Flying Teuton, (ss) Harper’s Aug 1917
• * The House with the Tower, (ss) Harper’s May 1914
• * The Lost Cup, (ss) Woman’s Home Companion Apr 1915
• * A Mind-Cure, (ss) Harper’s Aug 1914
• * Nemesis, (ss) Harper’s Apr 1917
• * Nicholas Woodman, (ss) Harper’s Oct 1916
• * The Preaching Peony, (ss) Harper’s Jun 1917
• * The Prince’s Ball, (ss) Harper’s Feb 1916
• * The Return of Martha, (ss) Harper’s Aug 1915
• * Three Bachelor Birds, (ss) Colliers Jul 15 1916
• * Time, (ss) Pictorial Review Apr 1916
• * The Unbroken Dynasty, (ss) The Delineator Mar 1915
• * Up on the Mountain, (ss) Harper’s Aug 1916
• * Wedding-gifts, (ss) Harper’s Nov 1915

BROWN, BERNICE

• * The Last of the Line, (ss) Every Week Nov 5 1917

BROWN, KATHARINE HOLLAND (?-1931)

• * Alice’s Child, (ss) Scribner’s Mar 1915
• * Brewster Blood, (ss) Scribner’s Jan 1915
• * The First-born, (ss) Scribner’s Dec 1915
• * The Girl Who Was Talked About, (ss) Every Week May 3 1915
• * Her Jail-Bird, (ss) Every Week Jun 12 1916
• * The High Cost of Honor, (ss) Every Week Oct 11 1915
• * The Last Bulletin, (ss) Every Week Mar 27 1916
• * Millicent: Maker of History, (ss) Scribner’s Jun 1917
• * The New Nest, (ss) The Century Feb 1914
• * The Old-Fashioned Gift, (ss) Associated Sunday Magazines, Inc. Jan 17 1915
• * On a Brief Text from Isaiah, (ss) Scribner’s Feb 1917
• * The Pink-Silk Descendant, (ss) Colliers May 6 1916
• * The Quality of Genius, (ss) The Century Mar 1914
• * The Ragged Edge of Forty, (ss) Scribner’s Dec 1914
• * Raw Prose, (ss) Scribner’s May 1914
• * The Veil, (ss) The Century Aug 1916
• * When the Princess Wakens, (ss) The Delineator Sep 1916

BROWN, MARION FRANCIS

• * Husks and Hawthorn, (ss) Southern Woman’s Magazine Aug 1917

BROWN, MAY BELLEVILLE

• * Scotch Ann, (ss) Sunset Magazine Nov 1915

BROWN, PHYLLIS WYATT

• * The Checked Trousers, (ss) Masses Jun 1917
• * The Extra Chop, (ss) The Century Oct 1917
• * Mandolin Lin, (ss) Everybody’s Magazine Mar 1916

BROWN, ROYAL (1886?-1953)

• * Seventy Times Seven, (ss) McCall’s Apr 1917

BROWNE, PORTER EMERSON (1879-1934)

• * Mary and Marie, (ss) McClure’s Sep 1916

BROWNE, RAYMOND

• * Until the End, (ss) New York Evening Sun Oct 21 1916

BROWNELL, AGNES MARY

• * The Fifer, (ss) The Youth’s Companion Jun 28 1917

BRUBAKER, HOWARD

• * Aunt Mary, Preferred, (ss) Harper’s Oct 1915
• * A Baby’s Place, (ss) Harper’s Jan 1917
• * The Battle of Frogtown Harbor, (ss) Harper’s Jul 1915
• * Boy Finance, (ss) Harper’s Jun 1916
• * Breaking Out of Society, (ss) Harper’s Jul 1916
• * Cabbages and Queens, (ss) Harper’s Aug 1917
• * Day of Wrath, (ss) Harper’s Nov 1916
• * Dividing Up, (ss) Harper’s Jan 1915
• * Enemy Wanted, (ss) Harper’s Mar 1915
• * An Experiment in Journalism, (ss) Harper’s Mar 1914
• * A Fugitive from Injustice, (ss) Harper’s Apr 1916
• * Greeks Bearing Gifts, (ss) Harper’s Nov 1917
• * An Imaginary Vacation, (ss) Harper’s May 1914
• * The Intemperate Zone, (ss) Harper’s Dec 1915
• * Malady Aforethought, (ss) Harper’s Apr 1915
• * Mumping the Mumps, (ss) Harper’s Jun 1915
• * Nipper’s Crowded Hour, (ss) Harper’s Oct 1914
• * Party Lines, (ss) Harper’s Mar 1916
• * The Power of the Press, (ss) Harper’s Dec 1914
• * Ranny and the Higher Life, (ss) Harper’s Jun 1917
• * Ranny Discovers America, (ss) Harper’s Sep 1914
• * A Tame Hero, (ss) Harper’s Sep 1916
• * Thoughts on Pedestrians, (ss) Harper’s Aug 1916
• * Twenty-three Dollars, (ss) Harper’s Apr 1915
• * The Way of the Reformer, (ss) Harper’s Sep 1915

BRUCKMAN, CLYDE A.

• * Joe Gum, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post May 5 1917
• * Reverse English, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Oct 21 1916

BRUNEL, REMY

• * The Author of “Pillars”, (ss)
  • Reedy’s Mirror Dec 8 1916

BRUNO, GUIDO

• * Diogenes in Our Village, (ss) Bruno’s Weekly Nov 13 1915
• * Four Dollars and Ninety-five Cents, (ss) Bruno Chap Books Special Series 1915
• * Hassan and His Wives, (ss) Greenwich Village Apr 28 1915
• * Just Love, (ss) Greenwich Village Aug 15 1915
• * The Peace Was Broken, (ss) Bruno’s Weekly Oct 21 1915
• * Three Dollars and Sixty Cents, (ss) Bruno Chap Books Special Series 1915
• * The Tragedy in the Birdhouse, (ss) Bruno Chap Books Special Series #4 1915

BRYSON, LYMAN (Lloyd) (1888-1959)

• * Alfalfa, (ss) McClure’s Jun 1916
• * Courage, (ss) The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Jan 3 1915
• * The Horse Heaver, (ss) Life Aug 12 1915
• * In His Own House, (ss) The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Jan 24 1915
• * Under a Roof, (ss) The Midland Jul 1917
• * The Yellow Streak, (ss) The Illustrated Sunday Magazine May 2 1915

BUFFUM, GEORGE T.

• * Tbe Low-Burned Candle, (ss) Good Housekeeping Mar 1915

BULGER, BOZEMAN (1877-1932)

• * The Bar and the Bard, (ss) McClure’s Dec 1916
• * The Bolivar, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Nov 27 1915
• * The Fainting Finish, (ss) Everybody’s Magazine Apr 1915
• * The Heart of the System, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Jan 6 1917
• * The Ladder Gal, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Oct 23 1915
• * A Pinch Hit in Vaudeville, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Sep 25 1915
• * The Queen’s Mistake, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Mar 3 1917
• * Skin Deep, (nv) Everybody’s Magazine Mar 1917

BULLARD, ARTHUR (1879-?)

• * The Escape of Tommy Waite, (ss) Harper’s Aug 1914

BULLOCK, WILLIAM

• * The Fence Breaker, (ss) Colliers Mar 13 1915

BUNIN, IVAN (Alexsieevich) (1870-1953)

• * Elijah, the Prophet, (ss) The Russian Review Apr 1916
• * Figures, (ss) The Russian Review Jun 1916

BUNNER, ANNE

• * The Road to Arcady, (nv) Everybody’s Magazine Jul 1917

BUNNER, HENRY CUYLER (1855-1896)

• * A Plain Girl, (ss) Scribner’s Dec 1914

BURGESS, (Frank) GELETT (1866-1951)

• * War the Creator, (sl) Colliers Jul 17, Jul 24 1915

BURHANS, VIOLA

• * An Adventure in Duplicity, (ss) Lippincott’s Mar 1915
• * The Inner Claw, (ss) McBride’s Jan 1916
• * Love’s Death Test, (ss) Colliers Jan 30 1915
• * A Million for Sara, (ss) Lippincott’s Jul 1915
• * The Swords of Her Neighbors, (ss) McBride’s Nov 1915
• * The Tack-Hammer Instinct, (ss) Colliers Jul 3 1915
• * The Ungiven Kiss, (ss) Colliers Nov 27 1915

BURKE, THOMAS (1886-1945)

• * A Night in Limehouse, (ss)
  • Reedy’s Mirror Jun 2 1916

BURNET, (Frank) DANA (1888-1962)

• * Business is Business, (ss) McBride’s Jan 1916
• * Christmas Fight of X 157, (ss) Ladies Home Journal Dec 1917
• * The Dub, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Mar 17 1917
• * A Dumb-Waiter Destiny, (ss) Harper’s Aug 1915
• * An Experiment in Gentility, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Nov 11 1916
• * Fog, (ss) McBride’s Feb 1916
  • The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Apr 1 1917
• * Genevieve and Alonzo, (ss) Ladies Home Journal Mar 1917
• * The Gifts of Three Wise Men, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Dec 9 1916
• * The Human Equation, (ss) Pictorial Review Dec 1916
• * The Price of Happiness, (ss) The American Magazine Jan 1916
• * Sadie Goes to Heaven, (ss) Good Housekeeping Aug 1917
• * Sobs, (ss) Every Week Jul 12 1915
• * The Sponge, (ss) The American Magazine Jan 1917
• * The $1,000 Check, (ss) The American Magazine Feb 1916
• * “X”, (ss) Harper’s Dec 1915

BURNETT, FRANCES (Eliza) HODGSON [Mrs. Stephen Townsend] (1849-1924)

• * The Little Hunchback Zia, (ss) The Century Dec 1915
• * The White People, (sl) Harper’s Dec 1916, Jan 1917

BURNHAM, NELSON

• * Mandy’s Methods, (ss) Colliers Sep 5 1914

BURR, AMELIA JOSEPHINE (1878-?)

• * The Game at Bay, (ss) The Bellman Oct 9 1915
• * Humanizing Sylvia, (ss) The Bellman Apr 17 1915
• * The Invasion of Reality, (ss) The Century Apr 1914
• * Lame Hands of Faith, (ss) The Bellman May 20 1916
• * Light of Other Days, (ss) The Bellman May ’5 1915
• * The Reed of Pan, (ss) The Century Mar 1915

BURR, JANE; pseudonym of Rosalind Winslow

• * Even in the Backwoods, (ss) Trimmed Lamp May 1916

BURROW, CHARLES KENNETT

• * The Café de la Paix, (ss)
  • Reedy’s Mirror Sep 21 1917

BURROWS, DUDLEY

• * Geraniums, (ss) Lippincott’s Aug 1915
• * A Latter-Day Cyrano, (ss) McBride’s Sep 1915
• * “Mutiny!”, (ss) Scribner’s May 1916

BURROWS, ETHELBERT D.

• * Jamaica Ginger, (ss) Lippincott’s May 1915
• * A Mighty Man Was He, (ss) Lippincott’s Mar 1915

BURT, JEAN BROOKE

• * The Way of the West, (ss) Sunset Magazine Jun 1917

BURT, MAXWELL STRUTHERS (1882-1954)

• * Closed Doors, (ss) Scribner’s Nov 1917
• * A Cup of Tea, (nv) Scribner’s Jul 1917
• * The Glory of the Wild Green Earth, (ss) Scribner’s Oct 1917
• * John O’May, (ss) Scribner’s Jan 1917
• * Le Panache, (ss) Scribner’s Dec 1917
• * The Water-Hole, (ss) Scribner’s Jul 1915

BURT, STRUTHERS; see under Burt, Maxwell Struthers

BURTON, GEORGE LEE

• * As Seen by His Bride, (ss) The Century Apr 1908
  • The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Jan 17 1915
• * Christmas in High Places, (ss) The Bellman Dec 23 1916

BURTON, [Sir] RICHARD (Francis) (1821-1890)

• * Ladies First, (ss) The Bellman Aug 21 1915