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

Stories, Listed by Author

CONNOLLY, JAMES B(rendan) (1868-1957)

• * About the Weeping Annie and What Followed, (ss) Colliers Oct 23 1915
• * Breath o’ Dawn, (ss) Scribner’s Sep 1917
• * The Bullfight, (ss) Colliers Feb 10 1917
• * The Camera Man, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Jan 1 1916
• * Chavero, (ss) Scribner’s Aug 1916
• * Colors, (ss) Colliers Jan 15 1916
• * Down River, (ss) Scribner’s Sep 1916
• * The Medicine Ship, (ss) Scribner’s Dec 1915
• * Mother Machree, (ss) Scribner’s Aug 1915
• * Peter Stops Ashore, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Nov 18 1916
• * The Rakish Brigantine, (ss) Scribner’s Aug 1914
• * The Strategists, (ss) Scribner’s Jul 1917
• * Tom Rockett’s Boy, (ss) Everybody’s Magazine Feb 1915
• * The Trawler, (nv) The American Magazine Mar 1909
  • Colliers Oct 31 1914

CONNOLLY, LOUISE (1862-?)

• * Darby and Joan, (ss) Harper’s Dec 1914

CONNOR, BREVARD MAYS (?-1953)

• * Billy’s Cashier, (ss) Ladies Home Journal Mar 1915
• * The Desert Rose, (ss) Sunset Magazine Sep 1917
• * The Resultant Tangent, (ss) Southern Woman’s Magazine Jun 1916

CONNOR, BUCK (1881-?)

• * The Go-Between (with B. M. Bower), (ss) McClure’s Mar 1917
• * The Red Ride (with B. M. Bower), (ss) McClure’s May 1917

CONNOR, TORREY

• * “Si, Señor!”, (ss) Sunset Magazine Mar 1917

CONRAD, JOSEPH; pseudonym of Teodor Josef Konrad Korzeniowski, (1857-1924)

• * Laughing Anne, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Sep 1914
• * The Planter of Malata, (sl) Metropolitan Magazine Jun, Jul 1914
• * The Shadow Line, (sl) Metropolitan Magazine Sep, Oct 1916
• * The Warrior’s Soul, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Dec 1917

CONVERSE, FLORENCE (1871-1967)

• * The Culprit, (ss) Atlantic Monthly Jan 1917
• * Maggie’s Minstrel, (ss) The Century Nov 1914
• * Mrs. Maxwell and the Unemployed, (ss) Atlantic Monthly May 1916
  • Reedy’s Mirror May 12 1916

CONWAY, NORMAN

• * The Cleansing, (ss) Masses Jun 1917

COOK, GEORGE CRAM (1873-?)

• * The C.T.U., (ss) The Forum Oct 1914

COOKE, GRACE MacGOWAN (1863-1944)

• * The Girl Who Was Afraid to Get Married, (ss) Every Week Aug 30 1915
• * Her Trial Marriage, (ss) Every Week Jan 10 1916
• * Moongwe the Son-Daughter, (ss) National Sunday Magazine May 23 1915

COOKE, MARJORIE BENTON (1876-1920)

• * The Bird-Cage, (ss) The American Magazine Aug 1916
• * Harrigan - of the Rockies, (ss) The American Magazine Dec 1915
• * “It Might Have Happened”, (ss) Scribner’s Apr 1917
• * Little Jesus, (ss) Pictorial Review Dec 1916
• * The Littlest Scout, (ss) Pictorial Review May 1915
• * The Morals of Peter, (ss) The American Magazine Aug 1917

COOLIDGE, HERBERT (1875-?)

• * The Blood Charivari, (ss) Colliers Nov 7 1914

COOMES, ELIZABETH MAURY

• * The End of the Dream, (ss) The Century Jan 1914
• * Love-in-a-Mist, (ss) Lippincott’s Feb 1915

COOPER, COURTNEY RYLEY (1886-1940)

• * Congo, (nv) Everybody’s Magazine Nov 1917
• * The Ship Comes In, (ss) Pictorial Review Nov 1917

CORBIN, JOHN (1870-?)

• * Father Comes Back, (ss) Colliers Jun 23 1917

CORNELL, HUGHES

• * The Coming, (ss) Atlantic Monthly Dec 1916
• * Holbrook Hollow, (ss) Los Angeles Times Jun 23 1917

CORNELL, V. H.

• * The Narrow Way, (ss) Harper’s Mar 1914
• * The One and the Other, (ss) Harper’s Nov 1915

CORNISH, EVELYN N.

• * The Letter of the Law (with Reynelle G. E. Cornish), (ss) Outlook Jul 4 1917

CORNISH, REYNELLE G. E.

• * The Letter of the Law (with Evelyn N. Cornish), (ss) Outlook Jul 4 1917

CORRIE, THEODORE

• * The Mute Stradivarius, (ss) The Century Mar 1916

COSTELLO, ALEXANDER

• * Aboard the Floating Wall Street, (ss) McClure’s Oct 1915
• * Poor on $10,000 a Year, (ss) McClure’s Sep 1915

COULTER, ERNEST K.

• * Aloysius - Better Baby, (ss) Lippincott’s Jan 1915

COURT, G.

• * A Grocer Baronet (with M. Court), (ss) The Bellman Aug 14 1915
• * “P.S.-”, (ss) The Bellman Apr 10 1915

COURT, M.

• * A Grocer Baronet (with G. Court), (ss) The Bellman Aug 14 1915

COURTNEY, W. L.

• * His First Wife, (ss) McClure’s Feb 1915

COUZENS, H(enry) D(e Clifford) (1872-1914)

• * The Pearls of Moku Pilau, (ss) The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Sep 5 1915

COWAN, BERTHA MUZZY BOWER SINCLAIR (1874-1940); see pseudonym B. M. Bower

COWDERY, ALICE

• * Chains, (ss) Harper’s Mar 1915
• * Constance the Parasite, (ss) Harper’s Oct 1915
• * Gallant Age, (ss) Harper’s Sep 1914
• * Robert, (ss) Harper’s Feb 1917
• * Roscoe the Invincible, (ss) Harper’s Aug 1915

COX, MARIAN (Metcalf) (1882-?)

• * The Book of the Dead, (ss) The Forum Jan 1916

CRABB, ARTHUR; pseudonym

• * The Decision, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Sep 8 1917
• * The Third Woman, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Sep 15 1917

CRABBE, BERTHA HELEN (1887-?)

• * Abigail Stone’s Independence, (ss) Craftsman Nov 1916
• * Lavender Satin, (ss) The Youth’s Companion Nov 29 1917
• * Once in a Lifetime, (ss) The Bellman Apr 21 1917

CRAM, MILDRED (R.) (1889-1985)

• * Not Quite an Hour, (ss) The Smart Set Aug 1917
• * The Statuette, (ss) The Smart Set May 1917
• * The Victory, (ss) Scribner’s Dec 1916

CRANE, CLARKSON

• * Snipe, (ss) Atlantic Monthly Nov 1916

CRANE, LEO (1881-?)

• * An Arctic Adventure, (ss) The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Oct 24 1915
• * At Chimney Butte, (ss) Harper’s Weekly Jul 1 1911
  • The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Nov 14 1915
• * The Clown, (ss) Harper’s Weekly Dec 11 1909
  • The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Mar 12 1916
• * The Imperishable Will, (ss)
  • The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Jan 23 1916
• * The Little Brother, (ss) The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Sep 26 1915
• * The Little Fear, (ss)
  • The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Feb 27 1916
• * The Man Who Knew, (ss) Red Book Magazine May 1904
  • The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Feb 20 1916
• * One Man’s Story, (ss) Harper’s Apr 1909
  • The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Nov 28 1915
• * The Real Thing, (ss) The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Mar 14 1915
• * The Ruse, (ss)
  • The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Jan 23 1916
• * Two Shots at “Carson’s”, (ss) The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Nov ,21 1915
• * When the Gods Sneer, (ss) Harper’s Nov 1909
  • The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Oct 31 1915

CRANE, STEPHEN (Townley) (1871-1900)

• * An Episode of War, (ss)
  • The Youth’s Companion Mar 16 1916

CRAWFORD, CHARLOTTE HOLMES

• * A Daughter of Nish, (ss) Colliers Jan 20 1917
• * Enemy’s Child, (ss) The Forum Sep 1915

CREEL, GEORGE

• * Pro Patria, (ss) Harper’s Weekly Jul 17 1915

CRISSEY, FORREST

• * In the Footsteps of Wugoof, (ss) Harper’s Dec 1916
• * The Pretender, (ss) Harper’s May 1917
• * The Tobacco Famine at Tamarac, (ss) Harper’s May 1914

CROFF, GRACE A.

• * A May Flitting, (ss) Harper’s Jun 1915

CROSBY, KATHARINE KINGSLEY

• * The Crowning, (ss) The Midland Apr 1916

CROWFOOT, JOHN

• * The Fall of Newport, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Dec 16 1916
• * Meal Ticket vs. Heavy Date, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Dec 2 1916
• * Miss Long Lands Three Jobs, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Nov 18 1916
• * The Pedigree Plug, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Nov 4 1916
• * Suggested Simon (A New York Evolution), (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Oct 21 1916

CROWLEY, ALEISTER; [i.e., Edward Alexander Crowley] (1875-1947)

• * The Chute, (ss) International Nov 1915
• * The Stratagem, (ss) The Smart Set Sep 1916

CUMMINGS, E. HAROLD

• * The Nick of Time, (vi) The Black Cat Mar 1915

CUMMINS, T. D. PENDLETON; see pseudonym T. D. Pendleton

CURTISS, PHILIP EVERETT (1885-1964)

• * Cather, (ss) Every Week Mar 6 1916
• * The Colonel Volunteers, (ss) Harper’s Oct 1917
• * The Geniuses of Lutton’s Hill, (ss) Scribner’s Jan 1914
• * The Gods and Little Fishes, (ss) Every Week Oct 29 1917
• * “Overture and Beginners!”, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Oct 13 1917
• * The Patrician, (ss) Every Week May 31 1915
• * The Pioneers, (ss) Harper’s Aug 1917

CURWOOD, JAMES OLIVER (1878-1927)

• * The Fiddling Man, (ss) Every Week Apr 16 1917

CUTTING, MARY STEWART (Doubleday) (1851-1924)

• * As Lochinvar, (ss) Pictorial Review Oct 1915
• * Benson’s Day, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post May 2 1914
• * Boggybrae, (ss) Everybody’s Magazine Jul 1915
• * Dance-Mad Billy, (ss) McClure’s Sep 1915
• * Leslie’s Friend, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Apr 17 1915
• * On with the Dance, (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Jun 20 1914
• * When Mother Woke Up, (ss) Ladies Home Journal Nov 1916
• * Winifred’s Dance, (ss) Ladies Home Journal Mar 1915

DALRYMPLE, LEONA

• * The Red Grainger, (ss) Every Week Aug 9 1915

DALY, ALICE F.

• * Aunt Virginia’s Box, (ss) The Youth’s Companion Nov 22 1917
• * The Heirloom, (ss) The Youth’s Companion Dec 6 1917

DANENHOWER, RUTH

• * Miss Millie’s Reconstruction, (ss) McBride’s Nov 1915

DARE, JAMES B.

• * Dominie Dean (with Ellis Parker Butler), (ss) Ladies Home Journal Apr 1916
• * Dominie Dean. Although He Won Without Losing, Yet He Won by Losing (with Ellis Parker Butler), (ss) Ladies Home Journal Jun 1916
• * Dominie Dean. He Discovers That Life and Love Run None Too Smoothly in Riverbank (with Ellis Parker Butler), (ss) Ladies Home Journal May 1916

DARLING, ERIC A.

• * The Child in the Street, (ss) The Delineator Oct 1916

DAUDET, ALPHONSE (1840-1897)

• * The Sous-Prefet Afield, (ss) Bruno’s Weekly Oct 21-30 1915
  • Bruno’s Weekly Oct 21 1915

DAVIDSON, MARIE HICKS

• * In Search of a Niche, (ss) The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Aug 22 1915
• * Squaring the Circle for Jimmie, (ss) The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Oct 17 1915

DAVIES, GEORGE

• * Love and the Business, (ss) Colliers Aug 29 1914

DAVIES, MARION

• * Runaway Romany, (ss) The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Sep 16 1917

DAVIES, OMA ALMONA

• * Of Arms and the Man, (ss) The Century Apr 1915

DAVIESS, MARIA THOMPSON

• * The Beloved Maverick, (ss) Harper’s Bazaar Nov 1915
• * Both, (ss) Every Week Dec 6 1915
• * Digging Up Sam, (ss) The Century Jun 1914
• * The Milk-Fed Chicken, (ss) Harper’s Bazaar Jun 1915
• * The Poor Dear, (ss) Ladies Home Journal Aug 1916
• * Under Silken Skies, (ss) The Century Jul 1914

DAVIS, CHARLES BELMONT (1866-1926)

• * Ethics, (ss) The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Jul 16 1916
• * God’s Material, (ss) Scribner’s Nov 1916
• * Gusenburger, (ss) McBride’s Nov 1915
• * Her Own Sort, (ss) Scribner’s Dec 1915
• * Patsy Durgan’s Love Affair, (ss) The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Mar 5 1916
• * When Johnny Comes Marching Home, (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Oct 1914
• * The Wreath of Pines, (ss) The Illustrated Sunday Magazine Aug 15 1915

DAVIS, CHARLES F.

• * Nino Jesu, (ss) The Midland Dec 1916

DAVIS, J(ames) FRANK (1870-1942)

• * Almanzar’s Perfect Day, (ss) Every Week Aug 27 1917
• * White Folks’ Talk, (ss) Every Week Jun 25 1917