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Clever Truths [v1 #2, July 1925] (cover by Doris Lane)
Details taken from Table of Contents.

1 · Announcement · [uncredited] · ms

3 · Play the Game · R. Louis Towne · ed

6 · She [Part 1 of 6; Ayesha] · H. Rider Haggard · n. Harper, December 1886; abridged.

26 · Devotion · Captain Tobias Hume · pm To-Day September 1922

26 · Phillis · Thomas Lodge · pm (r)

28 · The Marquis and Miss Sally · O. Henry · ss Everybody’s Magazine June 1903

33 · Napoleon’s Letters · [uncredited] · ar

40 · Fire Dramatics · Various · hu

41 · Camille [Part 2 of ?] · Alexandre Dumas (Fils) · sl (r)
translated from the French (La Dame aux Camélias, 1848).

57 · Rosalind’s Madrigal · Thomas Lodge · pm (r)
reprinted from “The Golden Legacy” (1590).

58 · Among the College Humorists · Various · hu

60 · An Amateur Peasant Girl · Alexandre Poushkin · ss (r)

68 · The Guest of Honor · Frank Norris · ss Pilgrim Magazine July 1902

74 · What They Laugh At in Europe · Various · hu

76 · An Andalusian Duel · Serafin Estebanez Calderon · ss (r)

78 · The Golden Age · Fannie Heaslip Lea · ss McClure’s Magazine May 1920

87 · Little Soldier · Guy de Maupassant · ss (r)

90 · El Verdugo · Honore de Balzac · ss (r)
translated from the French (“El Verdugo”, La Mode, January 30, 1830).

Clever Truths [v1 #3, August 1925] (cover by Doris Lane)
Issue partially indexed.

1 · Announcement · The Editor · ed

· She [Part 2 of 6; Ayesha] · H. Rider Haggard · n. Harper, December 1886; abridged.

· Camille [Part 3 of ?] · Alexandre Dumas (Fils) · sl (r)
translated from the French (La Dame aux Camélias, 1848).

· The Gold Bug · Edgar Allan Poe · nv Dollar Newspaper June 21 1843 (+1)

· [unknown story] · Frank Norris · ss (r)

· [unknown story] · Guy de Maupassant · ss (r)

· [unknown story] · Frederick O’Brien · ss (r)

· [unknown story] · Stephen French Whitman · ss (r)

· Among the College Humorists · [uncredited] · hu

· What They Laugh at in Europe · [uncredited] · hu

· [unknown poem] · Earl of Rochester · pm (r)

Best Stories of All Time
Title changed from Clever Truths.

Best Stories of All Time [v1 #4, September 1925] (Clever Truths Publishing Company, Inc., 25¢, 96pp+, bedsheet, cover by Doris Lane)
Details supplied by David Lee Smith.

6 · The Scarlet Letter [Part 1 of 3] · Nathaniel Hawthorne · n. Ticknor & Fields, 1850; abridged.

21 · The Reconcelement · John Sheffield, Duke of Buckinghamshire · pm (r)

21 · The Flowers · William Brighty Rands · pm (r)

22 · The Accursed House · Émile Gaboriau; translated by E. C. Waggener · ss Short Stories February 1893
translated from the French.

24 · Life · Anna Laetitia Barbauld · pm The Works of Anna Letitia Barbauld by Anna Letitia Barbauld, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825

25 · The Pragmatic Sanction · Samuel Merwin · ss McClure’s Magazine September 1920

31 · Do Tell a Story · Richard H. Little · ms (r)

32 · Among the College Humorists · [uncredited] · hu (r)

34 · The Broken Cup · Heinrich Zschokke; translated by Parke Godwin · ss (r)
from Tales from the German of Heinrich Zschokke, 1845.

41 · Love · Samuel Taylor Coleridge · pm The Morning Post December 21 1799

42 · She [Part 3 of 6; Ayesha] · H. Rider Haggard · n. Harper, December 1886; abridged.

57 · The Wonders of Training · [uncredited] · ct (r)

58 · The Speckled Band [Sherlock Holmes] · Sir Arthur Conan Doyle · nv The Strand Magazine February 1892, as “The Adventure of the Speckled Band”

67 · I Loved a Lass · George Wither · pm (r)

68 · What They Laugh At in Europe · Various · hu

70 · A Carolina Night’s Entertainment · Gouverneur Morris · ss Metropolitan Magazine February 1913

75 · The Tapestried Chamber · Sir Walter Scott · ss The Keepsake 1829, 1828

80 · Ah, How Sweet It Is to Love · John Dryden · pm The Works of John Dryden by John Dryden, William Miller, 1808

81 · A Snapshot at the President · O. Henry · ss The Rolling Stone 1894

82 · Kubla Khan · Samuel Taylor Coleridge · pm Christabel/Kubla Khan/The Pains of Sleep by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Murray, 1816

83 · The Ghost · Guy de Maupassant · ss Allouma and Other Tales by Guy de Maupassant, Holland Pub. Co., 1895, as “The Spectre”
translated from the French (“Apparition”, Le Gaulois, April 4, 1883).

86 · Radio Be Derned · [uncredited] · hu (r)

87 · Son of a Sheik · Frank Norris · vi (r)

90 · A Pair of Red Stockings · Pedro Bazan · vi (r)

92 · Clever Truths · [uncredited] · ms (r)

Best Stories of All Time [v1 #5, October 1925] (Clever Truths Publishing Company, Inc., 25¢, 96pp+, bedsheet, cover by Doris Lane)
Details supplied by Kenneth R. Johnson.

6 · Peter God · James Oliver Curwood · ss Doubleday, Page & Co., 1914

14 · Love · William Shakespeare · pm (r)

15 · The Spectacles · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Dollar Newspaper March 27 1844

24 · The Avenger · Mary Roberts Rinehart · ss The Popular Magazine November 1908

28 · The Sirens’ Song · William Browne · pm from The Inner Temple Masque, The Works of William Browne by William Browne, T. Davies, 1772

29 · Miss Claiborne Foster, Success · The Inquirer · iv

32 · Among the College Humorists · [uncredited] · hu

34 · The Scarlet Letter [Part 2 of 3] · Nathaniel Hawthorne · n. Ticknor & Fields, 1850; abridged.

50 · The Grand Marriage · Ludovic Halévy · nv (r)

58 · What the Bullet Sang · Bret Harte · pm Harper’s Weekly August 26 1876

59 · Lost by a Laugh · Honoré de Balzac · ss Shorter Stories from Balzac by Honoré de Balzac, Walter Scott, 1890
translated from the French (Autre Étude de Femme, Conard, 1842).

61 · Phillida and Coridon · Nicholas Breton · pm Englands Helicon ed. John Flasket, 1600

62 · What They Laugh At in Europe · Various · hu

64 · The Love Quarrel · Agnes Strickland · ss (r)

71 · To His Coy Love · Michael Drayton · pm Poems by Michael Drayton, 1619

72 · The Wedding of Jenny Distaff · Richard Steele · vi (r)

73 · Margarite Sofori · William Ernest Henley · pm (r)

74 · The Item Wasn’t Worth While · Ed Mott · vi (r)

75 · What Three Men Say of Three Women · Various · ms

76 · She [Part 4 of 6; Ayesha] · H. Rider Haggard · n. Harper, December 1886; abridged.

91 · Last Days of a Condemned Man · Victor Hugo · ex (r)

96 · Clever Truths · [uncredited] · ms

Best Stories of All Time [v1 #6, November 1925] (Clever Truths Publishing Company, Inc., 25¢, 96pp+, bedsheet, cover by Doris Lane)
Details supplied by Kenneth R. Johnson.

6 · The Path-Master · Robert W. Chambers · nv The Saturday Evening Post July 20 1901

13 · I Love Your Daughter · Edmond About · ss (r)

20 · The Purloined Letter [C. Auguste Dupin] · Edgar Allan Poe · nv The Gift: a Christmas and New Year’s Present for 1845, Carey & Hart, 1844

27 · Without Desire · Pardo Bazán · vi (r)

28 · Among the College Humorists · [uncredited] · hu

30 · She [Part 5 of 6; Ayesha] · H. Rider Haggard · n. Harper, December 1886; abridged.

46 · A Love Song · Laura Margaret Haley · pm (r)

47 · The Golden Flaw · P. G. Wodehouse · ss McClure’s Magazine March/April 1920

54 · Carmen · Prosper Merimee · ss Everybody’s June 1925; abridged.
translated from the French.

66 · The Vagabond · Feodor Dostoievski · ss (r)

72 · Invictus · William Ernest Henley · pm Book of Verses by William Ernest Henley, David Nutt, 1888

73 · What They Laugh At in Europe · Various · hu

74 · The Scarlet Letter [Part 3 of 3] · Nathaniel Hawthorne · n. Ticknor & Fields, 1850; abridged.

91 · Clever Truths · [uncredited] · ms

Best Stories of All Time [v2 #1, December 1925] (Clever Truths Publishing Company, Inc., 25¢, 96pp+, bedsheet, cover by Doris Lane)
Details supplied by Kenneth R. Johnson.

6 · Tess of the d’Urbervilles [Part 1 of 8] · Thomas Hardy · n. James R. Osgood, McIlvaine, 1891; abridged.

23 · The Real Santa Claus · Peter B. Kyne · ss Collier’s December 25 1915

31 · Forty-Seven Girls and Sally · Earl Derr Biggers · ss The Red Book Magazine May 1913

36 · How Anson Purdy Got His Start · Roy K. Moulton · vi (r)

37 · The Adoring Ones · Pardo Bazán · vi (r)

38 · The Bargain · Sir Philip Sidney · pm from The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia, 1593

39 · What They Laugh At in Europe · Various · hu

40 · The Jelly-Bean · F. Scott Fitzgerald · ss Metropolitan October 1920

47 · The Wolf · Guy de Maupassant · ss The Scrap Book December 1907; given as by dé Maupassant in the Table of Contents.
translated from the French (“Le Loup”, Le Gaulois, November 14, 1882).

49 · She [Part 6 of 6; Ayesha] · H. Rider Haggard · n. Harper, December 1886; abridged.

62 · Among the College Humorists · [uncredited] · hu

64 · A Christmas Carol [Christmas Carol] · Charles Dickens · ex Chapman & Hall, December 19 1843

71 · The Unfading Beauty · Thomas Carew · pm Poems by Thomas Carew, 1640

72 · Dorathea · Mrs. Gore · ss (r)

75 · The Vendean Marriage · Jules Janin; translated by Jane G. Cooke · ss Short Stories October 1899
translated from the French.

79 · Cavalleria Rusticana · Giovanni Verga · ss (r)
translated from the Italian (Vita dei Campi, 1880).

82 · Addison Spriggs in Pursuit of Happiness · S. E. Kiser · vi (r)

83 · A Scandal in Bohemia [Sherlock Holmes] · Sir Arthur Conan Doyle · nv The Strand Magazine July 1891

91 · Sepestia’s Lullaby · Robert Greene · pm (r)

92 · Boum-Boum · Jules Claretie; translated by E. H. Du Bois · ss The Scrap Book June 1907
translated from the French.

94 · Beauty Bathing · Anthony Munday · pm Englands Helicon ed. John Flasket, 1600, as by Shepherd Tony

95 · Clever Truths · [uncredited] · ms

Best Stories of All Time [v2 #2, January 1926] (cover by Doris Lane)
Details taken from Table of Contents.

1 · Announcement · The Editor · ed

3 · Impressions of Men and of Women · [uncredited] · ms

6 · Vanity Fair [Part 1 of 9] · William M. Thackeray · n. Bradbury & Evans, 1848; abridged.

23 · I Do Not Love Thee · Caroline Norton · pm The Sorrows of Rosalie by Caroline Norton, 1829

24 · Snake Doctor [Judge William Pitman Priest (Old Judge Priest)] · Irvin S. Cobb · nv Cosmopolitan November 1922

32 · The “Gloria Scott” [Sherlock Holmes] · Sir Arthur Conan Doyle · nv The Strand Magazine April 1893, as “The Adventure of the “Gloria Scott””

39 · Fool Questions · Fred C. Kelly · ms

40 · What They Laugh At in Europe · Various · hu

41 · Zadig · Francois Voltaire · na (r)
translated from the French (“Zadig ou la Destinée”, 1747).

53 · Speed + · H. G. Wells · ss The Strand Magazine December 1901, as “The New Accelerator”

58 · It Just Occurred to Us · [uncredited] · ms

59 · The Renovated Street · William Hamilton Osborne · ss (r)

67 · My Mary · William Cowper · pm The Life and Posthumous Writings of William Cowper, Esq. by William Cowper, J. Johnson, 1803

68 · College Humour · Various · hu

70 · A Shocking Mésalliance · E. Phillips Oppenheim · ss The Windsor Magazine September 1901

74 · Tess of the d’Urbervilles [Part 2 of 8] · Thomas Hardy · n. James R. Osgood, McIlvaine, 1891; abridged.

91 · A Coward · Guy de Maupassant · ss (r)
translated from the French (“Un lâche”, Le Gaulois, January 27, 1884).

96 · Clever Truths · [uncredited] · ms

Best Stories of All Time [v2 #3, February 1926] (Clever Truths Publishing Company, Inc., 25¢, 96pp+, bedsheet, cover by Mara Malliczky)
Details supplied by Kenneth R. Johnson.

1 · St. Valentine’s Day · Charles Lamb · es (r)

6 · The Ladies’ Dictionary · [uncredited] · ms; given as “The Ladies’ Calendar” in the Table of Contents.

8 · The Dummy-Chucker · Arthur Somers Roche · ss Cosmopolitan June 1920

13 · Sweet-and-Twenty · William Shakespeare · pm from Twelfth Night, Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies by William Shakespeare, Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623

14 · A Regimental Valentine · John Strange Winter · ss Army Tales by John Strange Winter, Lovell, Coryell, 1892

19 · Malva · Maxim Gorky · ss (r)

29 · Rosaline · Thomas Lodge · pm (r)

30 · Vanity Fair [Part 2 of 9] · William M. Thackeray · n. Bradbury & Evans, 1848; abridged.

47 · A Dream · —R · pm (r)

48 · A Gentleman Finds a Watch · Georges Courteline · vi (r)

50 · Among the College Humorists · [uncredited] · hu

52 · Two Little Soldiers · Guy de Maupassant · ss Allouma and Other Tales by Guy de Maupassant, Holland Pub. Co., 1895
translated from the French (“Petit Soldat”, Le Figaro April 13, 1885).

54 · Cards and Kisses · John Lyly · pm (r)

55 · The Cruise of the “Scandal” · Victor Bridges · ss Ainslee’s May 1913

61 · The Stolen Letter · Wilkie Collins · ss Household Words Christmas 1854, as “The Fourth Poor Traveller”, uncredited.

68 · Meg May’s Valentine · [uncredited] · pm (r)

69 · The Student’s Bride · Washington Irving · vi (r)

71 · Song · John Cutts · pm (r)

72 · The Fur Coat · Ludwig Fulda · ss The Masses January 1911

75 · St. Valentine’s Magic Wand · William Waterfield · pm (r)

76 · What They Laugh At in Europe · Various · hu

78 · Tess of the d’Urbervilles [Part 3 of 8] · Thomas Hardy · n. James R. Osgood, McIlvaine, 1891; abridged.

95 · Clever Truths · [uncredited] · ms

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