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The Argosy (UK) [v 3 #23, April 1928] ed. Anon. (Amalgamated Press, 1/-, 152pp, pulp) viii · Pinkle Purr · A. A. Milne · pm (r) 1 · The Human Factor · H. H. Bashford · ss (r) 9 · The Mayor’s Dovecote · Sir A. T. Quiller-Couch · ss Metropolitan Magazine Jun ’08 15 · The Bridge Across · I. A. R. Wylie · ss (r) 27 · A Knight of Burgundy · Gilbert Frankau · ss (r) 34 · According to Arnold Bennett · Arnold Bennett · ms (r) 36 · Mr. Skelmersdale in Fairyland · H. G. Wells · ss The Harmsworth London Magazine Feb ’03 42 · Impression · P. F. C. · pm (r) 43 · The Sea’s Judgment · Frank H. Shaw · ss Argosy All-Story Weekly Apr 14 ’23 51 · The Chink and the Child · Thomas Burke · ss Colour Oct ’15; #12 in the “World’s Great Love Stories” series 57 · A Fatalist · M. Y. Lermontov; trans. by Reginald Merton · ss 62 · The Art of Conversation · Misc. · ms (r) 65 · A Critique of Monsieur Poe · Melville Davisson Post · ss The Saturday Evening Post Dec 31 ’10 71 · The Melancholy Hussar · Thomas Hardy · ss (r) 80 · A Few Words from John Keats · John Keats · ms (r) 81 · The Bishop’s Comedy · Leonard Merrick · ss The Saturday Evening Post Jul 29 ’05 86 · Of Women · Edward Vere · pm (r) 87 · The Key of Life [Part 2 of 3] · Francis Brett Young · sl (r) 109 · The Executioner · Honoré de Balzac; trans. by Reginald Merton · ss 114 · Travellers’ Tales · Misc. · ms (r) 117 · Tuck-of-Drum · Alfred Tressider Sheppard · ss Tom Watson’s Magazine Jun ’05 124 · The Honour of the Paper · Carlo Linati; trans. by Reginald Merton · ss 127 · The Woman in White [Part 4 of 10] · Wilkie Collins · sl All the Year Round Nov 26, 1859-Aug 25, 1860
The Argosy (UK) [v 3 #24, May 1928] ed. Anon. (Amalgamated Press, 1/-, 152pp, pulp) viii · Spring Shadows · Alfred Noyes · pm 1 · The Trader of Last Notch · Perceval Gibbon · ss McClure’s Sep ’06 9 · The Revolver · Arnold Bennett · ss (r) 13 · One Shall Be Taken · E. Phillips Oppenheim · ss (r) 25 · The Barnacle-Goose · Donn Byrne · ss The Saturday Evening Post Aug 12 ’16 34 · Easter-tide · Misc. · ms (r) 37 · Head of the Family · W. W. Jacobs · ss The Strand Jul ’09 42 · Before the Battle · Siegfried Sassoon · pm (r) 43 · Giving Him His Chance · Richard Marsh · ss (r) 49 · According to Hazlitt · William Hazlitt · ms (r) 50 · Price of Admiralty · Mrs. Belloc Lowndes · nv (r); #1 in the “World’s Best Short Novels” series 76 · Representing T.A. Buck · Edna Ferber · ss The American Magazine Aug ’11 81 · The Foreigner · P. A. de Alarcón; trans. by Reginald Merton · ss 85 · The Key of Life [Part 3 of 3] · Francis Brett Young · sl (r) 107 · ‘Songs of Poets Dead and Gone’ · John Keats · pm (r) 108 · At the Wedding · Misc. · ms (r) 111 · The Barren Wooing · Rafael Sabatini · ss (r) 121 · Empty Arms · Roland Pertwee · ss Ladies Home Journal Mar ’22 127 · “The Calvary” · Kathleen O’Brien · pm (r) 128 · The Woman in White [Part 5 of 10] · Wilkie Collins · sl All the Year Round Nov 26, 1859-Aug 25, 1860
The Argosy (UK) [v 3 #25, June 1928] ed. Anon. (Amalgamated Press, 1/-, 152pp, pulp) viii · Ode · Arthur O’Shaughnessy · pm (r) 1 · The Eyes of Monsieur Renaud · Ralph Stock · ss (r) 8 · For Shadows · Eleanor Farjeon · pm (r) 9 · The Pilgrimage · Elizabeth Bibesco · ss (r) 15 · Telling His Faults · Stephen Leacock · vi (r) 16 · The Defeat of the City · O. Henry · ss New York Sunday World Magazine Jun 26 ’04 19 · God’s Fool · Mary Roberts Rinehart · ss The Saturday Evening Post Dec 6 ’13 32 · The Game of Nations · Misc. · ms (r) 35 · The Goose-Boy · Hermann Sudermann; trans. by Reginald Merton · ss 39 · The Villa by the Sea · Robert Hichens · nv (r); #2 in the “World’s Best Short Novels” series 66 · The Hour and the Minute · Johannes Gillby; trans. by E. Gee Nash · ss 68 · How Tricotrin Saw London · Leonard Merrick · ss (r) 73 · The Kiss of the Accolade · James W. Bennett · ss Short Stories Oct 10 ’22 83 · At a Casino · Sir Edmund Gosse · pm (r) 84 · Manoel—The Patriot · Grenville Hammerton · ss (r) 96 · The Stone Monkey · Anon.; trans. by Dr. Herbert A. Giles · vi (r) 97 · “Genius” · Elinor Mordaunt · ss The Century Nov ’21 108 · Clothes and the Man · Misc. · ms (r) 111 · On the Stairs · Arthur Morrison · ss (r) 113 · Old Elizabeth · Hugh Walpole · ss Good Housekeeping Nov ’24 121 · The Prophecy · Pedro Antonio de Alarcón; trans. by Reginald Merton · ss 126 · Magic Casements · Alice Herbert · ss The Queen Feb 11 ’22 129 · The Woman in White [Part 6 of 10] · Wilkie Collins · sl All the Year Round Nov 26, 1859-Aug 25, 1860
The Argosy (UK) [v 4 #26, July 1928] ed. Anon. (Amalgamated Press, 1/-, 152pp, pulp) viii · The Rolling English Road · G. K. Chesterton · pm (r) 1 · The Barrier · I. A. R. Wylie · ss (r) 8 · The Three Suitors · Fernan Caballero · vi (r) 9 · The Ingenuity of Captain Spink [Captain Harry Spink] · Morley Roberts · ss The Saturday Evening Post Mar 12 ’10 18 · The Friend of Man · Misc. · ms (r) 21 · Gold-Mounted Guns · F. R. Buckley · ss The Red Book Magazine Mar ’22 25 · Annabel’s Wager · Rafael Sabatini · ss The London Magazine Mar ’05 31 · The Story of a Girl · H. de Vere Stacpoole · ss (r) 37 · The Pain · Pauline Smith · ss (r) 44 · His Native Heath · Joseph C. Lincoln · ss (r) 51 · Called Back [Part 1 of 3] · Hugh Conway · sl (r) 67 · “Far from the Madding Crowd” · Misc. · ms (r) 69 · The Ship in Bondage · Herman Scheffauer · ss (r) 76 · Sonnet · Adrian Bury · pm (r) 77 · Safety · St. John Ervine · ss (r) 81 · Sunrise · Ward Muir · nv McClure’s Oct ’14; #3 in the “World’s Best Short Novels” series 103 · To An Old Bat · A. A. Milne · pm (r) 105 · The Elixir of Youth · Arnold Bennett · ss (r) 109 · King Pedro of Castille · Alexandre Dumas; trans. by Reginald Merton · ss 122 · Fear · W. Somerset Maugham · ss The Century Mar ’22 125 · An Act of God [Uncle Abner] · Melville Davisson Post · ss Metropolitan Magazine Dec ’13 131 · The Woman in White [Part 7 of 10] · Wilkie Collins · sl All the Year Round Nov 26, 1859-Aug 25, 1860
The Argosy (UK) [v 4 #27, August 1928] ed. Anon. (Amalgamated Press, 1/-, 152pp, pulp) viii · Play! Violins · Humbert Wolfe · pm (r) 1 · Above the Pass · Gilbert Norwood · ss (r) 7 · The Safe Miss Seaton · Cosmo Hamilton · ss The Red Book Magazine Mar ’19 14 · Sonnet (“How do I love thee?...”) · E. B. Browning · pm (r) 15 · The Murderer · Perceval Gibbon · ss Harper’s Monthly Aug ’12 25 · Fairy Gold · W. W. Jacobs · ss The Strand Feb ’11 30 · Husbands and Wives · Misc. · ms (r) 33 · Dubrovski · Alexander Pushkin; trans. by Reginald Merton · nv; #4 in the “World’s Best Short Novels” series 55 · The Man Who Planted Roses · Newman Flower · ss (r) 66 · Happiness Reflected · Leigh Hunt · pp (r) 67 · Chattering Jimmy · H. de Vere Stacpoole · ss The Popular Magazine Mar 20 ’26 73 · A Lover Since Childhood · Robert Graves · pm (r) 74 · Going North · Misc. · ms (r) 77 · Called Back [Part 2 of 3] · Hugh Conway · sl (r) 93 · The Guilty Secret · Paul de Kock · ss (r) 97 · Statement of Gabriel Foot, Highwayman · A. T. Quiller-Couch · ss (r) 103 · Blessed Are the Meek · Mary Webb · ss The English Review Sep ’22 106 · Dream-Fugue · Thomas de Quincey · pp (r) 107 · The Man Who Could Work Miracles · H. G. Wells · ss The Illustrated London News Jul, 1898 116 · The Gap in the Wall · R. Murray Gilchrist · ss (r) 118 · The Valley of Lost Lumber · Lodovico Ariosto · pp (r); prose translation of extract from Orlando Furioso. 119 · A Nephew and His Uncle · Edmond About; trans. by Richard Vernon · ss 129 · The Woman in White [Part 8 of 10] · Wilkie Collins · sl All the Year Round Nov 26, 1859-Aug 25, 1860 141 · Heavenward · Lady Caroline Nairn · pm (r)
The Argosy (UK) [v 4 #28, September 1928] ed. Anon. (Amalgamated Press, 1/-, 152pp, pulp) viii · The Storms and the Havens · Sir William Watson · pm (r) 1 · The Accident of Crime · Stacy Aumonier · nv The Saturday Evening Post Mar 11 ’22 11 · Jean Michaud’s Little Ship · Charles G. D. Roberts · ss The Saturday Evening Post Dec 1 ’00 18 · Blessing · Austin Clarke · pm (r) 19 · The Gold · Mary E. Wilkins · ss Harper’s Dec ’04 26 · On Land and Sea · Misc. · ms (r) 29 · The Young Man Who Was Afraid · Norman Davey · ss (r) 35 · A Beleaguered City [Part 1 of 4] · Mrs. Oliphant · sl New Quarterly Magazine Jan, 1879 48 · A Japanese “Lady Into Fox” · Robert Southey · vi (r) 49 · The Abduction · Rafael Sabatini · ss The Storyteller Dec ’08 55 · Late—299 · John Galsworthy · ss Scribner’s Aug ’23 64 · About Smoking · Misc. · ms (r) 67 · The Darling · Anton Tchehov; trans. by Reginald Merton · ss 73 · “Who Will Undertake to Sift Those Dusts Again” · Nina Cust · pm (r) 74 · The Nomad · Robert Hichens · ss The London Magazine Oct ’07 83 · Called Back [Part 3 of 3] · Hugh Conway · sl (r) 103 · Tennessee’s Partner · Bret Harte · ss Overland Monthly Oct, 1869 108 · At the Barber’s · Misc. · ms (r) 109 · Love Among the Beech Trees · S. R. Crockett · ss (r) 119 · Maître Cornille’s Secret · Alphonse Daudet; trans. by Richard Vernon · ss 122 · The Mercy of John McKay · J. D. Newsom · ss The Frontier Sep ’26 140 · The Woman in White [Part 9 of 10] · Wilkie Collins · sl All the Year Round Nov 26, 1859-Aug 25, 1860
The Argosy (UK) [v 4 #29, October 1928] ed. Anon. (Amalgamated Press, 1/-, 152pp, pulp)

viii · Of an Orchard · Katharine Tynan · pm (r)
1 · Chichester Creek · Mrs. Henry Dudeney · ss (r)
10 · The Flower Fairies · Anon.; trans. by Dr. Herbert A. Giles · vi (r)
11 · Culot Infernal · John Ressich · ss (r)
19 · The Pikestaffe Case · Algernon Blackwood · nv Tongues of Fire, Jenkins, 1924; probably previously appeared in Cassell’s Magazine between 7/23 and 9/23
33 · “Pigs Is Pigs” · Ellis Parker Butler · ss The American Magazine Sep ’05
38 · Love · Humbert Wolfe · pm (r)
40 · The Garden-Party · Katherine Mansfield · ss The Weekly Westminster Gazette Feb 4 ’22 (+2)
47 · To Lucasta, Going Beyond the Seas · Richard Lovelace · pm (r)
48 · Oysters · Misc. · ms (r)
51 · Success · Albert Richard Wetjen · ss (r)
59 · Against Indifference · Charles Webbe · pm (r)
60 · The One Hundred Dollar Bill · Booth Tarkington · ss McCall’s Jan ’23
69 · A Beleaguered City [Part 2 of 4] · Mrs. Oliphant · sl New Quarterly Magazine Jan, 1879
83 · God Sees the Truth —But bides His time · Leo Tolstoy; trans. by Reginald Merton · ss
87 · The Truth About Pyecraft · H. G. Wells · ss The Strand Apr ’03
92 · Facino Cane · Honoré de Balzac; trans. by Richard Vernon · ss
97 · The Lady of the Terrace · Warwick Deeping · nv (r)
118 · The Tug-of-War · Phyllis Bottome · ss (r)
125 · The Yellow Boots · Henry Williamson · ss (r)
137 · The Coronet-Player · P. A. de Alarcón; trans. by Robert Spofforth · ss
141 · The Woman in White [Part 10 of 10] · Wilkie Collins · sl All the Year Round Nov 26, 1859-Aug 25, 1860
The Argosy (UK) [v 4 #30, November 1928] ed. Anon. (Amalgamated Press, 1/-, 152pp, pulp) viii · Dream-Tryst · Francis Thompson · pm (r) 1 · Miss Bracegirdle Does Her Duty · Stacy Aumonier · ss, 1916 9 · The Angel of the Lord [“The Broken Stirrup-Leather”; Uncle Abner] · Melville Davisson Post · ss The Saturday Evening Post Jun 3 ’11 16 · The Lover of Things · Radclyffe Hall · ss (r) 34 · On Noses · Misc. · ms (r) 37 · The Young Man with the Cream Tarts · R. L. Stevenson · ss London, 1878 51 · The Choice · Kurt Münzer; trans. by Reginald Merton · ss 58 · The Penny That Beauty Spent · Thornton Wilder · pl 60 · The Secret House · Mary Roberts Rinehart · ss Metropolitan Magazine May ’14 71 · The Fire-Bird · Robert W. Chambers · ss (r) 80 · The Ace of Thirteens · Michael Arlen · ss (r) 94 · Round the Empire · Misc. · ms (r) 97 · Old Rogaum and His Theresa [“Butcher Rogaum’s Door”] · Theodore Dreiser · ss Reedy’s Mirror Dec 12 ’01 107 · The King is Dead, Long Live The King · Mary Coleridge · ss (r) 110 · No! · Thomas Hood · pm (r) 111 · Odell · Mildred Cram · ss The Red Book Magazine May ’20 120 · Late Leaves · Walter Savage Landor · pm (r) 121 · Crainquebille · Anatole France · ss (r) 131 · The Poor Man’s Palgrave · George Baker · pm (r) 132 · The South Shore Weather Bureau · Joseph C. Lincoln · ss Everybody’s Magazine Feb ’05 137 · A Beleaguered City [Part 3 of 4] · Mrs. Oliphant · sl New Quarterly Magazine Jan, 1879
The Argosy (UK) [v 4 #31, December 1928] ed. Anon. (Amalgamated Press, 1/-, 152pp, pulp) viii · I Care Not · Sir William Watson · pm (r) 1 · Pieces of Silver · Richard Connell · ss The Century Sep ’24 10 · The Beauty Specialist · Mary E. Mann · ss (r) 14 · Sweet Content · Thomas Dekker · pm (r) 15 · Fine Feathers · W. W. Jacobs · ss The Strand May ’10 21 · Funny Nose · James Warner Bellah · ss The Saturday Evening Post Feb 5 ’27 29 · The Adventure of the Foundling [Aristide Pujol] · William J. Locke · ss (r) 39 · The Man of Almonacid · Stanley J. Weyman · ss (r) 48 · The Joys of the Chase · Misc. · ms (r) 51 · The Room in the Dragon Volant [Part 1 of 3; Martin Hesselius] · Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu · sl London Society Feb, 1872 (+4) 67 · Picq Plays the Hero · Leonard Merrick · ss (r) 74 · A Page of Peace Poems · Misc. · ms (r) 75 · The Last Bandit · Emmanuel Arène; trans. by W. W. Tunbridge · ss 86 · The Dark Continent · Misc. · ms (r) 89 · Penalty · Basil King · ss McClure’s Jun ’14 110 · The Greater Fool · Monteiro Lobato · ss (r) 117 · High Tide · H. de Vere Stacpoole · ss (r) 122 · Chanson Triste · A. W. Wells · ss The English Review Nov ’24; Competition Story (Guess the Ending): 127 · The Lady, or the Tiger? · Frank R. Stockton · ss The Century Nov, 1882 131 · A Beleaguered City [Part 4 of 4] · Mrs. Oliphant · sl New Quarterly Magazine Jan, 1879
The Argosy (UK) [v 5 #32, January 1929] ed. Anon. (Amalgamated Press, 1/6d, 184pp, pulp) viii · The Sleeper · Walter de la Mare · pm (r) 1 · Five Hundred Dollars Reward [Judge William Pitman Priest “Old Judge Priest"] · Irvin S. Cobb · ss The Saturday Evening Post Oct 19 ’12 11 · The Kindness of “The Celestial” · Barry Pain · ss (r) 15 · Christmas and New Year Bell—Carol · Herbert E. Palmer · pm (r) 16 · Prisoners of War · I. A. R. Wylie · ss (r) 27 · Our Lady’s Juggler · Anatole France · ss (r) 30 · The Laird’s Lucky Number · J. J. Bell · pl (r) 39 · Youth · Joseph Conrad · nv Blackwood’s Sep, 1898; #1 in the “World’s Great Adventure Stories” series 55 · The Art of the Giving · Misc. · ms (r) 59 · To Have and to Hold · W. W. Jacobs · ss The Strand Nov ’00 63 · £150 Voting Contest · Misc. · ms (r) 64 · Two Men and a Woman · Grazia Deledda · ss Short Stories Jul ’03 73 · The Falling Out of Faithful Freendes Renewing is of Love · Richard Edwards · pm (r) 74 · The House of the Whispering Pines [Part 1 of 8] · Anna Katharine Green · sl The Popular Magazine Oct ’09 (+4) 92 · The Human Blend · Misc. · ms (r) 93 · The Stolen Ass · Liam O’Flaherty · vi (r) 95 · The Pearl of Taheu · H. de Vere Stacpoole · ss The Strand Dec ’24 108 · In Praise of Wine · Anon. · pm (r) 112 · The Red Room · H. G. Wells · ss The Idler Mar, 1896 117 · The Iliad of Sandy Bar · Bret Harte · ss Overland Monthly Nov, 1870 123 · What’s Become of Waring? · Robert Hichens · ss (r) 133 · The Jackdaw of Rheims · Thomas Ingoldsby · pm (r) 137 · The Angel · Leonid Andreyev; trans. by Reginald Merton · ss 143 · Mr. Pickwick and the Runaway Horses · Charles Dickens · ss (r) 146 · A Straggler of ’15 · A. Conan Doyle · ss Black and White Mar 21, 1891 153 · Bad Mrs. Bennett · Owen Oliver · ss (r) 156 · The First Violin · Norman Davey · ss (r) 163 · The Room in the Dragon Volant [Part 2 of 3; Martin Hesselius] · Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu · sl London Society Feb, 1872 (+4) 184 · A Christmas End-Paper · The Editor · ms (r)
The Argosy (UK) [v 5 #33, February 1929] ed. Anon. (Amalgamated Press, 1/-, 152pp, pulp) viii · Days that have been · W. H. Davies · pm (r) 1 · The Treasure-Hole · Beatrice Grimshaw · ss The Red Book Magazine Sep ’21 14 · Angels and Devils · Siegfried Sassoon · pm (r) 15 · The Pie in the Oven · J. J. Bell · ss (r) 20 · Gunnel’s Story · Pelle Molin; trans. by J. Dorum · ss 24 · She Could Make a Desert Bloom · Sir William Jones · pm (r) 25 · McEwen of the Shining Slave Makers · Theodore Dreiser · ss (r) 33 · In the Circus Ring · Misc. · ms (r) 36 · £150 Voting Contest · Misc. · ms (r) 37 · The League of the Old Men · Jack London · ss Brandur Magazine Oct 4 ’02; #2 in the “World’s Great Adventure Stories” series 45 · Spindleberries · John Galsworthy · ss Scribner’s Dec ’18 50 · According to Sir J. M. Barrie · Sir J. M. Barrie · ms (r) 51 · The House of the Whispering Pines [Part 2 of 8] · Anna Katharine Green · sl The Popular Magazine Oct ’09 (+4) 73 · The Bread House · Mary Webb · ss (r) 77 · The Extra Hands of the “Nemesis” · Morley Roberts · nv The Grand Magazine Feb ’05 92 · About Cats · Misc. · ms (r) 95 · The Voice of the Charmer · E. W. Hornung · ss (r) 101 · The Gifts of Feodor Himkoff · A. Quiller-Couch · vi (r) 104 · The Deserters · A. E. W. Mason · ss Pearson’s Magazine (US) Nov ’01 111 · Kirilka at the Ferry · Maxim Gorky · ss (r) 117 · Nell Gwyn · F. Frankfort Moore · ss (r) 126 · Père Zidore’s New Year Present · Jean Aicard; trans. by Reginald Merton · vi 129 · The Room in the Dragon Volant [Part 3 of 3; Martin Hesselius] · J. Sheridan Le Fanu · sl London Society Feb, 1872 (+4)

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