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Best Stories of All Time [v2 #2, January 1926] Incomplete Data - Issue not found. Need Contents Tess of the d’Urbervilles [Part 2 of 8] · Thomas Hardy · n. James R. Osgood, McIlvaine 1891; abridged. Vanity Fair [Part 1 of 9] · William M. Thackeray · n. Bradbury & Evans 1848; abridged.

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 · Anon. · ms; given as “The Ladies’ Calendar” in the Table of Contents. 8 · The Dummy-Chucker · Arthur Somers Roche · ss Cosmopolitan Jun 1920 13 · Sweet-and-Twenty [from Twelfth Night] · William Shakespeare · pm Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard 1623 14 · A Regimental Valentine · John Strange Winter · ss Army Tales, 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 · Anon. · hu 52 · Two Little Soldiers · Guy de Maupassant · ss Allouma and Other Tales, 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 Magazine May 1913 61 · The Stolen Letter · Wilkie Collins · ss Household Words Christmas 1854, as “The Fourth Poor Traveller”, uncredited 68 · Meg May’s Valentine · Anon. · pm (r) 69 · The Student’s Bride · Washington Irving · vi (r) 71 · Song · John Cutts · pm (r) 72 · The Fur Coat · Ludwig Fulda · ss (r) 75 · St. Valentine’s Magic Wand · William Waterfield · pm (r) 76 · What They Laugh at in Europe · Anon. · hu 78 · Tess of the d’Urbervilles [Part 3 of 8] · Thomas Hardy · n. James R. Osgood, McIlvaine 1891; abridged. 95 · Clever Truths · Anon. · ms

Best Stories of All Time [v2 #4, March 1926] (Clever Truths Publishing Company, Inc., 25¢, 96pp+, bedsheet, cover by W. T. Benda) Details supplied by Kenneth R. Johnson. 1 · March · William Morris · pm The Earthly Paradise, F.S. Ellis 1868 6 · The Ladies’ Dictionary · Anon. · ms 8 · Fables of Man · Anon. · ms 9 · The Marquise · George Sand · ss (r); translated from the French (“La Marquise”, La Revue de Paris, 1832). 18 · The Question · Percy Bysshe Shelley · pm (r) 19 · Two Hearts That Beat As One [3 Black Crows] · Frank Norris · ss Ainslee’s Magazine Jan 1903 23 · Sun and Rain · Anon. · pm (r) 25 · Love on a Raft · Maxim Gorky · ss (r) 30 · Woman’s Will · Anon. · pm (r) 31 · A Perfect Love Story · Ludovic Halévy · ss (r) 40 · A Village Kiss · Anon. · vi (r) 41 · Gifts [from “Sunday Up the River”] · James Thomson · pm The City of Dreadful Night and Other Poems, Reeves and Turner 1880 42 · Vanity Fair [Part 3 of 9] · William M. Thackeray · n. Bradbury & Evans 1848; abridged. 52 · Foreign Humor · Anon. · hu 54 · What Would You Do? · Meredith Nicholson · ss McClure’s Jan 1921 61 · When Lovely Woman · Phoebe Cary · pm (r) 62 · An Easy Life · Anon. · ct 63 · The Telegraph Operator · Alphonse Allais · vi (r) 64 · The Fury · Paul Heyse · ss Four Phases of Love, G. Routledge and Co. 1857, as “The Rabbiata”; translated from the German (“L’Arrabiata”, 1853). 71 · Do You Remember? · Thomas Haynes Bayly · pm (r) 72 · Home Brew · Sophie Kerr · ss Metropolitan Magazine Jun 1921 78 · The Proposal · Etincelle; translated by Edith Duff · ss Romance Jul 1893 81 · Song in March · William Gilmore Simms · pm (r) 82 · Tess of the d’Urbervilles [Part 4 of 8] · Thomas Hardy · n. James R. Osgood, McIlvaine 1891; abridged.

Best Stories of All Time [v2 #5, April 1926] (Clever Truths Publishing Company, Inc., 25¢, 96pp+, bedsheet, cover by W. T. Benda) Details supplied by Kenneth R. Johnson. 1 · April · Alfred Tennyson · pm (r) 6 · The Ladies’ Dictionary · Anon. · ms 8 · Fables of Man · Anon. · ms 9 · A Lesson for Husbands · Fedor Dostoieffsky · ss (r) 23 · Advice to a Girl · Thomas Campion · pm The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres, T. Snodham 1617, as “Never Love Unless You Can” 24 · How One Saluted a Lady in the Year 1438 · Anon. · ct 25 · The Tenor · H. C. Bunner · ss Short Sixes, Keppler & Schwarzmann 1890 30 · How Women Love · Max Nordau · ss (r) 34 · To Ellen · Lord Byron · pm The Works of Lord Byron, John Murray 1833 35 · The Stall · Courtney Ryley Cooper · ss (r) 40 · Vanity Fair [Part 4 of 9] · William M. Thackeray · n. Bradbury & Evans 1848; abridged. 51 · Love’s Farewell · Michael Drayton · pm Idea’s Mirror 1594 52 · Foreign Humor · Anon. · hu 54 · The Adventure of a Noble Batchelor [Sherlock Holmes] · Sir Arthur Conan Doyle · ss The Strand Magazine Apr 1892 62 · The Old Familiar Faces · Charles Lamb · pm Blank Verse 1798 63 · A Midnight Elopement · Alexander Pushkin · ss (r) 67 · The Widow · Alexander Pope · pm (r) 68 · The Foster Fathers · Lowell Otus Reese · ss Collier’s Sep 11 1920; given as by Lowell Otis Reese. 74 · Beware of the Widow! · Anon. · ms Bentley’s Miscellany 74 · Spring [from Summer’s Last Will and Testament] · Thomas Nashe · pm Walter Burre 1600 75 · Trials of Love · Anton Chekhov · vi (r) 77 · Advice to a Lover · Anon. · pm (r) 78 · Karen · Alexander Kielland; translated by Leonora Teller · ss Short Stories Feb 1898; translated from the Danish. 80 · The Male Flirt · Edmund Yates · ms (r) 80 · A Picture · Anon. · pm (r) 81 · Tess of the d’Urbervilles [Part 5 of 8] · Thomas Hardy · n. James R. Osgood, McIlvaine 1891; abridged.

Best Stories of All Time [v2 #6, May 1926] (Clever Truths Publishing Company, Inc., 25¢, 96pp+, bedsheet, cover by W. T. Benda) Details supplied by Kenneth R. Johnson. 1 · May · Lord Thurlow · pm (r) 7 · The Ladies’ Dictionary · Anon. · ms 9 · Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn · Charles Dickens · ss Household Words Christmas 1855, as “The Boots”, uncredited 13 · Wandering People · Maxim Gorki · ss (r) 18 · To Caroline · Lord Byron · pm The Works of Lord Byron, John Murray 1833 24 · The Harlot’s House · Oscar Wilde · pm Dramatic Review Apr 11 1885 25 · The Nine Cent-Girls · H. C. Bunner · ss Short Sixes, Keppler & Schwarzmann 1890 29 · How Women Love II: Another Way · Max Nordau · ss (r) 32 · Jenny Kiss’d Me · Leigh Hunt · pm Monthly Chronicle Nov 1838 33 · The Campbells Are Coming · Meredith Nicholson · ss McClure’s Aug 1921 38 · Vanity Fair [Part 5 of 9] · William M. Thackeray · n. Bradbury & Evans 1848; abridged. 46 · The Old, Old Song · Charles Kingsley · pm (r) 49 · On a Fair Spring Morning · Sir Lewis Morris · pm (r) 53 · Foreign Humor · Anon. · hu 55 · Rip Van Winkle · Washington Irving · nv The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent Jun 23 1819, as by Geoffrey Crayon 61 · A Work of Art · Anton Chekhov; translated by Archibald J. Wolfe · ss Short Stories Jan 1906; translated from the Russian. 63 · The Boscombe Valley Mystery [Sherlock Holmes] · Sir Arthur Conan Doyle · nv The Strand Magazine Oct 1891 72 · The Man under Thirty-Five · Lilian Bell · ms (r) 73 · The Rendezvous · Ivan Turgéniev · ss Short Story Classics (Foreign), ed. William Patten, P.F. Collier 1907 76 · Morning Song · Thomas Randolph · pm (r) 77 · A Diplomatic Mission · E. Phillips Oppenheim · ss (r) 80 · Tess of the d’Urbervilles [Part 6 of 8] · Thomas Hardy · n. James R. Osgood, McIlvaine 1891; abridged.

Best Stories of All Time [v3 #1, June 1926] ed. Samuel Bierman (Clever Truths Publishing Company, Inc., 25¢, 96pp+, bedsheet, cover by W. T. Benda) Details supplied by Kenneth R. Johnson. 1 · June · James Russell Lowell · pm The Vision of Sir Launfal, George Nichols 1848 6 · Love Letters of Famous Men · [Various] · ms 9 · Captain Kidd of the Underground [Falkner of the Inland Seas] · James Oliver Curwood · ss Cosmopolitan Jun 1907 14 · The Undrowned Hornets · Strickland W. Gillilan · vi (r) 15 · The Red Seal · Alfred de Vigny · ss (r) 24 · Delight and Disorder · Robert Herrick · pm Hesperides 1648, as “Delight in Disorder” 25 · An Old, Old Story · H. C. Bunner · ss Short Sixes, Keppler & Schwarzmann 1890 29 · Rab and His Friends · Dr. John Brown · ss Ticknor & Fields 1859 34 · Why Don’t the Men Propose? · Theodore Hook · ms (r) 34 · Song · Sir John Suckling · pm (r) 35 · Made in Mazooma · Meredith Nicholson · ss Metropolitan Magazine Feb 1917 43 · The Brook-Side · Lord Houghton · pm Appleton’s Journal May 21 1870 44 · Vanity Fair [Part 6 of 9] · William M. Thackeray · n. Bradbury & Evans 1848; abridged. 56 · Lovers, Make It Short · An Unmarried Cynic · ms 57 · Foreign Humor · Anon. · hu 59 · Thou Art the Man · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Godey’s Lady’s Book Nov 1844 65 · A Young Girl’s Diary · Marcel Prévost · ss (r) 67 · To Celia · Ben Jonson · pm The Workes of Beniamin Ionson, William Stansby 1616 68 · Hints on Proposals · An Experienced Chaperon · ms 68 · What Is Love? · John Fletcher · pm The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, J. Tonson 1711 69 · The Freshwater Fisherman · Mary Russell Mitford · ss (r) 75 · Two Men and a Woman · Grazia Deledda; translated by Florence MacIntyre Tyson · ss Short Stories Jul 1903 82 · The Professional Lover · Anon. · ms Household Words 83 · Tess of the d’Urbervilles [Part 7 of 8] · Thomas Hardy · n. James R. Osgood, McIlvaine 1891; abridged.

Best Stories of All Time [v3 #2, July 1926] Incomplete Data - Issue not found. Need Contents Tess of the d’Urbervilles [Part 8 of 8] · Thomas Hardy · n. James R. Osgood, McIlvaine 1891; abridged. Vanity Fair [Part 7 of 9] · William M. Thackeray · n. Bradbury & Evans 1848; abridged. Farewell [Part 1 of 3] · Honoré de Balzac · na Works of Honoré de Balzac, George Barrie and Son 1895; translated from the French (“Souvenirs Soldatesques—Adieu”, La Mode, May 15, 1830 & Jun 5, 1830).

Best Stories of All Time [v3 #3, August/September 1926] (Clever Truths Publishing Company, Inc., 25¢, 96pp+, bedsheet, cover by W. T. Benda) 1 · Summer · William C. Taylor · pm (r) 4 · Casey at the Bat · Phineas Thayer · pm San Francisco Examiner Jun 3 1888 5 · Tarzan of the Apes [Part 1 of 8; Tarzan] · Edgar Rice Burroughs · n. The All-Story Oct 1912 8 · Beauty Bathing · Anthony Munday · pm Englands Helicon, ed. John Flasket 1600, as by Shepherd Tony 11 · To His Coy Love · Michael Drayton · pm Poems 1619 15 · The Passionate Shepherd to His Love · Christopher Marlowe · pm The Passionate Pilgrim, ed. Anon., W. Jaggard 1599 15 · Her Reply · Sir Walter Raleigh · pm Englands Helicon, ed. John Flasket, I.R. 1600, as “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd”, uncredited 16 · Famous Fads · Anon. · ms 17 · “Ice Water, Pl—se!” · Fannie Hurst · nv Collier’s Oct 21 1916 27 · I Love a Lass · George Wither · pm (r) 28 · Old Age—Before and After · Oliver Wendell Holmes · ar (r) 29 · Her First Appearance [Van Bibber] · Richard Harding Davis · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine Dec 1891 35 · The Maid, the Moon, and the Winged Shoes · Rex Beach · ss Collier’s Oct 14 1905, as “The Moon, the Maid, and the Winged Shoes” 41 · To Emma · Lord Byron · pm The Works of Lord Byron, John Murray 1833 42 · Chops the Dwarf · Charles Dickens · ss Household Words Christmas 1858, as “Going Into Society”, uncredited 46 · The Bargain [from The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia] · Sir Philip Sidney · pm 1593 47 · Alex the Great · Harry Charles Witwer · ss The American Magazine Nov 1917 55 · I Prithee Send Me Back My Heart · Sir John Suckling · pm (r) 56 · Romance of the Quaker Poet (John G. Whittier) · Anon. · ar (r) [John Greenleaf Whittier] 57 · The “Mysterious Stranger” Defense [Captain Walker] · Melville Davisson Post · ss Everybody’s Magazine Jun 1921 61 · Music, When Soft Voices Die · Percy B. Shelley · pm Posthumous Poems, John and Henry L. Hunt 1824 62 · Farewell [Part 2 of 3] · Honoré de Balzac · na Works of Honoré de Balzac, George Barrie and Son 1895; translated from the French (“Souvenirs Soldatesques—Adieu”, La Mode, May 15, 1830 & Jun 5, 1830). 68 · It Is Not Flattery—’Tis Truth · Lord Byron · pm The Works of Lord Byron, John Murray 1833 69 · Green Row · William Hamilton Osborne · ss Cosmopolitan Apr 1904 76 · Epigrams on Women · [Various] · ms 77 · The Class in Fiction · Paul Oskar Hocker · ss (r) 82 · Vanity Fair [Part 8 of 9] · William M. Thackeray · n. Bradbury & Evans 1848; abridged. 96 · There Is a Lady Sweet and Kind · Anon. · pm (r)

Best Stories of All Time [v3 #4, October 1926] (Clever Truths Publishing Company, Inc., 25¢, 96pp+, bedsheet, cover by W. T. Benda) Details supplied by Steve Miller from Table of Contents. 1 · To Autumn · John Keats · pm Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, Taylor and Hessey 1820 4 · Bedouin Love Song · Bayard Taylor · pm Poems of the Orient, Ticknor and Fields 1854, as “Bedouin Song” 5 · Mother [Part 1 of 2] · Kathleen Norris · na Macmillan US 1911; abridged. 13 · Counsel to Girls · Robert Herrick · pm Hesperides 1648, as “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” 16 · We’ll Go No More a Roving · Lord Byron · pm Letters and Journals of Lord Byron, J. & J. Harper 1830 20 · The Tiger · William Blake · pm Songs of Experience 1794 21 · The Romance in the Life of Hefty Burke · Richard Harding Davis · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine Jan 1893 27 · The Name and the Game · Fannie Hurst · ss Metropolitan Magazine Dec 1915 36 · Lord Byron’s Riddle · Lord Byron · ms (r) 37 · The Yellow Dog · J. S. Fletcher · ss The Secret of the Barbican, Hodder & Stoughton 1924 43 · Tarzan of the Apes [Part 2 of 8; Tarzan] · Edgar Rice Burroughs · n. The All-Story Oct 1912 55 · Don’t Give Up the Tip! · Harry Charles Witwer · ss The American Magazine Sep 1918 62 · Letters Famous for Brevity · [Various] · ms 63 · Farewell [Part 3 of 3] · Honoré de Balzac · na Works of Honoré de Balzac, George Barrie and Son 1895; translated from the French (“Souvenirs Soldatesques—Adieu”, La Mode, May 15, 1830 & Jun 5, 1830). 68 · Sayings of Napoleon · Napoleon Bonaparte · ms (r) 69 · The North Wind’s Malice · Rex Beach · ss Hearst’s Magazine Dec 1916 77 · Vanity Fair [Part 9 of 9] · William M. Thackeray · n. Bradbury & Evans 1848; abridged. 92 · Paradox Proverbs · [Various] · ms

Best Stories of All Time [v3 #5, November 1926] (Clever Truths Publishing Company, Inc., 25¢, 96pp+, bedsheet, cover by W. T. Benda) Details supplied by Kenneth R. Johnson. 1 · Old Companions · Harry Lee · pm (r) 4 · Fate · Susan Marr Spalding · pm The New York Graphic 1876; given as by Susan Marr Spaulding. 5 · The Amazing Adventures of Tartarin of Tarascon [Part 1 of 3] · Alphone Daudet · n. William F. Gill 1875, as The New Don Quixote or The Wonderful Adventures of Tartarin of Tarascon; abridged. 12 · Antony and Cleopatra · William Haines Lytle · pm Cincinnati Commercial Jul 29 1858 13 · The Trader of Apavak · Henry C. Rowland · ss The Popular Magazine Jan 7 1917 20 · Not Ours the Vows · Thomas Love Peacock · pm (r) 21 · Buffalo Bill Shoots His First Indian · Col. William F. Cody · bg The International 1916 25 · The Despised · W. A. Fraser · ss The Red Book Magazine Oct 1907 29 · My Loves · John Stuart Blackie · pm (r) 30 · Famous Line of Famous Lovers _30 · How do I love Thee? · Elizabeth Browning · pm (r) _30 · All That I Know of a Certain Star · Robert Browning · pm Men and Women 1855, as “My Star” 31 · A Pellet of Death · Richard Washburn Child · ss The Grand Magazine Mar 1922 36 · The Diary of an Old Maid · Anon. · ms (r) 37 · The Nice People · H. C. Bunner · ss Puck Jul 30 1890 40 · When Stars Are in the Quiet Skies [from Ernest Maltravers] · Bulwer-Lytton · pm Routledge 1837 41 · Mother [Part 2 of 2] · Kathleen Norris · na Macmillan US 1911; abridged. 46 · Song · Sir Samuel Ferguson · pm (r) 49 · On a Certain Lady at Court · Alexander Pope · pm Pope-Swift Miscellanies, IV 1732 54 · Let Those Love Now Who Never Loved · Coventry Patmore · pm (r) 55 · Miss Casabianca · Fanny Heaslip Lea · ss The Delineator Mar 1920 63 · To an Inconstant One · Sir Robert Ayton · pm (r) 64 · Famous Fads · Anon. · ms 65 · Play Your Ace! · H. C. Witwer · ss The American Magazine May 1918 72 · Go, Lovely Rose · Edmund Waller · pm (r) 73 · The Miracle Baby · Frank Richardson Pierce · ss The American Magazine Nov 1922 78 · The Ostrich Punching of Arroyo Al · Anon. (by Arthur Chapman) · pm Out Where the West Begins, Houghton Mifflin 1917 79 · Mrs. Bullfrog · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss Mosses from an Old Manse, Wiley & Putnam 1846 82 · Via Solitaria · O. M. Conover · pm New York Independent Jul 2 1863 83 · Tarzan of the Apes [Part 3 of 8; Tarzan] · Edgar Rice Burroughs · n. The All-Story Oct 1912 94 · Of Three Girls and Their Talk · Boccaccio · pm (r)