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Best Stories of All Time [v3 #6, December 1926] ed. Samuel Bierman (Clever Truths Publishing Company, Inc., 25¢, 96pp+, bedsheet, cover by W. T. Benda) Details supplied by Kenneth R. Johnson. 3 · When Icicles Hang by the Wall [from Love’s Labors Lost] · William Shakespeare · pm Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard 1623 6 · I Never Could Love Till Now · Matthew Gregory Lewis · pm (r) 7 · Ever Ever Green · Fannie Hurst · ss Metropolitan Magazine Mar 1915 11 · Cloe · M. Prior · pm (r) 15 · In a Gondola · Robert Browning · pm Dramatic Lyrics, Edward Moxon 1842 20 · The Unfaithful Shepherdess · Anon. · pm (r) 21 · There Still Are Fairies · A. S. M. Hutchinson · ss The International 1921 27 · The Girl of Cadiz · Lord Byron · pm (r) 28 · To Althea, from Prison · Richard Lovelace · pm Lucasta 1649 29 · The Mystery at the Blue Villa · Melville Davisson Post · ss Pictorial Review Oct 1916 35 · Zozo · H. C. Bunner · ss Short Sixes, Keppler & Schwarzmann 1890 39 · The Amateur Pirates · James Oliver Curwood · ss Cosmopolitan Jun 1908 45 · The Boy Orator of Zepata City · Richard Harding Davis · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine Nov 1892 50 · The Short Story of a Long Life · Count Rostopchin · ms (r) 51 · The Amazing Adventures of Tartarin of Tarascon [Part 2 of 3] · Alphone Daudet · n. William F. Gill 1875, as The New Don Quixote or The Wonderful Adventures of Tartarin of Tarascon; abridged. 60 · Lines of a Lover · Walter Savage Landor · gp (r) _60 · Ianthe’s Question · Walter Savage Landor · pm (r) _60 · Ianthe · Walter Savage Landor · pm (r) _60 · Proud Word You Never Spoke · Walter Savage Landor · pm The Works of Walter Savage Landor, Edward Moxon 1846 _60 · The Kiss · Walter Savage Landor · pm (r) _60 · Her Name · Walter Savage Landor · pm (r) _60 · Verse · Walter Savage Landor · pm (r) 61 · The Feminine Touch · Lowell Otus Reese · ss Collier’s May 28 1921 67 · Art Is Wrong · H. C. Witwer · ss (r) 73 · The Nun · Leigh Hunt · pm The Tickler Mar 1 1821, as “[untitled]”, uncredited 74 · An Echo Poem · Anon. · pm (r) 75 · A Night’s Tragedy · Marya Rodziewicz · ss (r) 78 · Song · Sir Walter Scott · pm (r) 79 · The Gridiron · Samuel Lover · ss Legends and Stories of Ireland, W.F. Wakeman 1831 82 · Lines to an Indian Air · Percy Bysshe Shelley · pm (r) 83 · Tarzan of the Apes [Part 4 of 8; Tarzan] · Edgar Rice Burroughs · n. The All-Story Oct 1912

Best Stories of All Time [v4 #1, January 1927] (Clever Truths Publishing Company, Inc., 25¢, 96pp+, bedsheet, cover by W. T. Benda) Details supplied by Kenneth R. Johnson. 3 · Winter · William Cowper · pm (r) 6 · Phillis Is My Only Joy · Sir Charles Sedley · pm Miscellaneous Works 1702 7 · Laughing Bill Hyde · Rex Beach · ss Hearst’s Magazine May 1917 (+1) 14 · The Rover · Sir Walter Scott · pm (r) 17 · The Lotus-Eater · Laura Margaret Haley · pm (r) 23 · The Man in the Ready-Made Suit · Gouverneur Morris · ss Ainslee’s Magazine Dec 1913 28 · The Courtin’ · James Russell Lowell · pm J.R. Osgood 1874 29 · The Framing of the Shrew [Florian Slappey] · Octavus Roy Cohen · ss The Elks Magazine Jun 1924 36 · Meteorological · Emile Pickhardt · pm (r) 37 · H.R.H. Libby-Ann · Nina Wilcox Putnam · ss Everybody’s Magazine Jan 1916 42 · What My Lover Said · Homer Greene · pm (r) 43 · Buffalo Bill’s Adventures as a Plainsman · Col. William F. Cody · bg The International 1916 47 · The Modern Primer · Anon. · ms 47 · His Sarcastic Saying · Anon. · ms 47 · How It Happened · Anon. · ms 48 · Solitude · Ella Wheeler Wilcox · pm The Sun 1883 49 · The Crooked Fairy · Arthur Train · ss McCall’s Jul 1921 55 · The Amazing Adventures of Tartarin of Tarascon [Part 3 of 3] · Alphone Daudet · n. William F. Gill 1875, as The New Don Quixote or The Wonderful Adventures of Tartarin of Tarascon; abridged. 65 · Full Dress at Regan’s · Hugh Pendexter · ss Short Stories Jun 1916 69 · Love’s Likeness · George Darley · pm (r) 70 · Celebrated Composers and Their Eccentricities · Anon. · ms 71 · A Winter’s Tale · Zona Gale · ss The Delineator Mar 1923 76 · Two Women · Nathaniel Parker Willis · pm (r) 77 · The Broken Girth · W. A. Fraser · ss (r) 81 · French with a Master · Anon. · pm (r) 82 · If I Should Die Tonight · Arabella Smith · pm (r) 82 · If I Should Die Tonight (parody) · Ben King · pm (r) 83 · Tarzan of the Apes [Part 5 of 8; Tarzan] · Edgar Rice Burroughs · n. The All-Story Oct 1912 95 · To His Forsaken Mistress · Sir Robert Ayton · pm (r)

Best Stories of All Time [v4 #2, February 1927] ed. Samuel Bierman (Clever Truths Publishing Company, Inc., 25¢, 96pp+, bedsheet, cover by W. T. Benda) Details supplied by Kenneth R. Johnson. 3 · Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind [from As You Like It] · William Shakespeare · pm Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard 1623 6 · The Vows of Men · Thomas Haynes Bayly · pm (r); given as by Thomas Haines Bayly in the Table of Contents. 7 · Twenty Two · Mary Roberts Rinehart · nv Metropolitan Magazine Jun 1917 13 · When the Bank Moved · Arthur Stringer · ss Everybody’s Magazine Dec 1909 19 · Love and Pity · Anon. · pm The Cornhill Magazine Jan 1889 20 · A Persian Love Song · Hafiz of Shiraz; translated by Sir William Jones · pm A Grammar of the Persian Language, ed. Sir W. Jones, Oxford 1771 21 · John Melmoth Peer of Lucifer [from “Melmoth Reconciled”] · Honoré de Balzac · ss 1890; translated from the French. 30 · A Romance · Eugene Field · pm (r) 31 · The Way to Jericho · J. S. Fletcher · ss The Secret of the Barbican, Hodder & Stoughton 1924 38 · Poems of a Pastor · Robert Herrick · gp (r) _38 · His Answer to a Question · Robert Herrick · pm Hesperides 1648 _38 · Love Me Little · Robert Herrick · pm Hesperides 1648 _38 · The Headache · Robert Herrick · pm Hesperides 1648 _38 · To Dianeme · Robert Herrick · pm Hesperides 1648 39 · Don’t Touch Me! · Hermann Sudermann · ss (r) 44 · Weighty Correspondence · Fred C. Kelly · hu (r) 45 · Mr. Copernicus and the Proletariat · H. C. Bunner · ss Short Sixes, Keppler & Schwarzmann 1890 49 · Boys—My Sister from the East! · Holworthy Hall · ss The American Magazine Apr 1918 57 · “’Späcially Jim” · B. M. · pm The Century Magazine Jun 1884 58 · Maxims of a Married Man · Anon. · ms 59 · An Unfinished Story · Richard Harding Davis · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine Oct 1891 65 · There Was a Wily Lad · Robert Jones · pm (r) 66 · The Bacillus Prodigiosus · H. M. Egbert · vi (r) 67 · The Butterfly · Anton Chekhov · ss (r) 75 · The Yellow Streak · Helen Topping Miller · ss The American Magazine Jan 1922 80 · Twice · Christina Rossetti · pm (r) 81 · Tarzan of the Apes [Part 6 of 8; Tarzan] · Edgar Rice Burroughs · n. The All-Story Oct 1912 95 · If You Want a Kiss, Why, Take It · Anon. · pm (r) 96 · The Twin Bags · Judd Mortimer Lewis · vi (r)

Best Stories of All Time [v4 #3, March 1927] ed. Samuel Bierman (Clever Truths Publishing Company, Inc., 25¢, 96pp+, bedsheet, cover by W. T. Benda) Details supplied by Kenneth R. Johnson. 3 · March · William Cullen Bryant · pm Poems, Russell, Odiorne, and Metcalf 1834 6 · The Old Navy [from Snarley-Yow] · Captain Frederick Marryat · pm Henry Colburn 1837 7 · The Leavenworth Case [Part 1 of 8; Ebenezer Gryce] · Anna Katharine Green · n. Putnam 1878; abridged. 21 · Now We Are Wed · Anon. · pm (r) 22 · Why Don’t the Men Propose? · Thomas Haynes Bayly · pm (r) 23 · The Romance of Obadiah Terwilliger · Arthur Train · ss Pictorial Review Aug 1915 28 · The Devil’s Thoughts · Samuel Taylor Coleridge · pm The Morning Post Sep 6 1799 29 · The Remittance Man · W. A. Fraser · ss The Saturday Evening Post Nov 9 1901 (+1) 41 · Eleanor Cuyler [Van Bibber] · Richard Harding Davis · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine Apr 1892 47 · Why She Did · Anon. · pm (r) 48 · Song of Marion’s Men · William Cullen Bryant · pm Poems, Russell, Odiorne, and Metcalf 1834 49 · Some Talk of Alexander · A. S. M. Hutchinson · nv Everybody’s Magazine Nov 1920 55 · The Box Tunnel · Charles Reade · ss Bentley’s Miscellany Nov 1853 58 · So Wags the World · Anon. · ms 59 · Luck · Frederic Arnold Kummer · ss Metropolitan Magazine Jan 1923 64 · The Hindoo’s Death · George Birdseye · pm (r) 65 · The Kettle of Rusty Gold · William Merriam Rouse · ss Collier’s Jul 24 1915 71 · Mrs. Proudfoot of Baltimore · George Kibbe Turner · ss The Elks Magazine Jun 1922 (+1) 78 · When We Two Parted · Lord Byron · pm The Works of Lord Byron, John Murray 1833 79 · Tarzan of the Apes [Part 7 of 8; Tarzan] · Edgar Rice Burroughs · n. The All-Story Oct 1912 94 · Darwinism in the Kitchen · Anon. · pm (r) 95 · Sally in Our Alley · H. Carey · pm 1715

Best Stories of All Time [v4 #4, April 1927] ed. Samuel Bierman (Clever Truths Publishing Company, Inc., 25¢, 96pp+, bedsheet, cover by W. T. Benda) Details supplied by Kenneth R. Johnson. 3 · April · William Morris · pm (r) 6 · If I Were You · Austin Dobson · pm (r) 7 · Brunt · Fannie Hurst · ss Metropolitan Magazine Jun 1916 18 · To M. S. G. · Lord Byron · pm The Works of Lord Byron, John Murray 1833 19 · The Blooding of the Ninth Queen’s Own · Talbot Mundy · ss Adventure Dec 1911 25 · Miracles · Gouverneur Morris · ss Cosmopolitan Apr 1923 30 · Domestic Asides · Thomas Hood · pm The Works of Thomas Hood, Edward Moxon 1862 31 · Cocky Lewis · William Slavens McNutt · ss Collier’s Aug 5 1922; given as “Cockey Lewis” in the Table of Contents. 37 · The Leavenworth Case [Part 2 of 8; Ebenezer Gryce] · Anna Katharine Green · n. Putnam 1878; abridged. 50 · Like His Mother Used to Make · James Whitcomb Riley · pm (r) 51 · The Angel of the Odd · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Columbian Lady’s and Gentleman’s Magazine Oct 1844 55 · Silvershine · Vingie E. Roe · ss Pictorial Review Mar 1922 61 · I Am Calling the Hand That Is in Your Hat · Buffalo Bill · bg The International 1916 64 · The Yellow Paper · Anon. · vi (r) 65 · Deep in the Bushes [James Pepper McHenry] · Holworthy Hall · ss The Popular Magazine Aug 20 1915 72 · Early Stages of the Bloomer Fever · H. C. Bunner · vi (r) 74 · My Aunt · Oliver Wendell Holmes · pm The New-England Magazine Nov 1831 75 · The Seventh Disappearance · Arthur Stringer · nv Everybody’s Magazine May 1911 84 · The Sea’s Love · F. E. Weatherly · pm (r) 85 · A Horrible Tale · Arthur Locker · pm (r) 86 · Tarzan of the Apes [Part 8 of 8; Tarzan] · Edgar Rice Burroughs · n. The All-Story Oct 1912

Best Stories of All Time [v4 #5, May 1927] ed. Samuel Bierman (Clever Truths Publishing Company, Inc., 25¢, 96pp+, bedsheet, cover by W. T. Benda) Details supplied by Kenneth R. Johnson. 3 · Song—On May Morning · John Milton · pm Poems of Mr. John Milton, Humphrey Moseley 1645 6 · Josh Billings Says— · Henry Wheeler Shaw · ms (r) 7 · The Canterville Ghost · Oscar Wilde · nv Court and Society Review Feb 23 1887 (+1); abridged. 17 · A White Rose · John Boyle O’Reilly · pm (r) 18 · Trials of a Man about Town · Thomas Haynes Bayly · pm (r) 19 · Without Fear or Favor · William MacLeod Raine · ss Short Stories Nov 25 1922; given as by William McCloud Raine. 25 · The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County · Mark Twain · ss Saturday Press Nov 18 1865, as “Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog” 28 · Her Letter · Bret Harte · pm Overland Monthly Dec 1869 29 · His Answer · Bret Harte · pm Overland Monthly Dec 1870 30 · Last Words of Famous Men and Women · [Various] · ms 31 · The Writing on the Wall · Richard Harding Davis · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine Apr 1894 36 · Douglas, Douglas, Tender and True · Dinah Maria Mulock Craik · pm Poems of Thirty Years, New and Old 1881, as by Dinah Maria Mulock 37 · Strictly Vicarious · Henry Kitchell Webster · ss Metropolitan Magazine Jan 1914 43 · The Perfect Day · Eugene Manlove Rhodes · ss McClure’s Apr 1916 49 · Daybreak · Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · pm The Atlantic Monthly Feb 1858, uncredited 50 · The Jester · Horace Smith · pm The Poetical Works of Horace Smith, H. Colburn 1846, as “The Jester Condemned to Death” 51 · The Adventures of Scotland Yard · Charles Dickens · ss Household Words Jul 27 1850, as “A Detective Police Party”, uncredited 59 · The Nightingale · Richard Washburn Child · ss Cosmopolitan Jun 1917 64 · A Kiss in the Rain · Anon. · pm (r) 65 · The Intruders [Lad] · Albert Payson Terhune · ss The Elks Magazine Jun 1922 70 · Longing · Matthew Arnold · pm (r) 71 · Faust · Eugene Chirikov · ss (r) 78 · Love’s Logic · Anon. · pm Chambers’s Journal 79 · The Leavenworth Case [Part 3 of 8; Ebenezer Gryce] · Anna Katharine Green · n. Putnam 1878; abridged.

Best Stories of All Time [v4 #6, June 1927] ed. Samuel Bierman (Clever Truths Publishing Company, Inc., 25¢, 96pp+, bedsheet, cover by W. T. Benda) Details supplied by Kenneth R. Johnson. 3 · Green Things Growing · Dinah Maria Mulock · pm (r) 6 · Terence’s Farewell · Lady Dufferin · pm A Selection of the Songs of Lady Dufferin, John Murray 1895 7 · The Amber Gods · Harriet Prescott Spofford · na The Atlantic Monthly Jan 1860 (+1), uncredited 19 · Nemesis · H. M. Egbert · vi (r) 21 · The Cowards · Talbot Mundy · ss Adventure Jul 1912 28 · The LIttle Frenchman and His Water Lots · George Pope Morris · vi (r) 30 · The Wanderer · Eugene Field · pm (r) 31 · Potiphar Buss Stays Home · William Dudley Pelley · ss The Elks Magazine May 1923 36 · To a Sea-Bird · Bret Harte · pm Overland Monthly Aug 1868 37 · Buffalo Bill’s Adventures during the Civil War · Col. William F. Cody · bg The International 1916 42 · Great Men’s Letters to Their Wives · [Various] · ms 43 · The Comedy King · Albert Payson Terhune · ss The Designer and The Woman’s Magazine Oct 1923, as “The Comedy Kid” 48 · The Eternal Feminine · Anon. · pm (r) 49 · Flanagan’s Stool-Pigeon · Frederick R. Bechdolt · ss McClure’s Feb 1912 54 · Tragedy of a Trunk · Anon. · vi (r) 55 · An Anonymous Letter [Van Bibber] · Richard Harding Davis · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine Feb 1894 60 · The Loving Couple · Charles Dickens · vi Sketches of Young Couples, Chapman and Hall 1840, uncredited 62 · The Song of the Camp · Thomas Haynes Bayly · pm (r) 63 · Fancy Turns · Samuel Merwin · ss The Red Book Magazine Aug 1924 68 · David Swan · Nathaniel Hawthorne · vi Twice-Told Tales, American Stationers Co. 1837 70 · Any One Will Do · Anon. · pm (r) 71 · Putting It Over on the Old Home Town · Lucian Cary · ss Collier’s Sep 28 1918 78 · Celebrated Last Words · Anon. · ms 79 · The Leavenworth Case [Part 4 of 8; Ebenezer Gryce] · Anna Katharine Green · n. Putnam 1878; abridged.

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Best Stories [v5 #1, July 1927] ed. Samuel Bierman (Clever Truths Publishing Company, Inc., 25¢, 128pp+, pulp) Details supplied by Kenneth R. Johnson. 5 · The Education of Billy Stream · Frederick William Wallace · ss Adventure Jul 1916 23 · The Stroke of the Hour · Sir Gilbert Parker · ss The Strand Magazine Jan 1906 32 · Fly to the Desert, Fly with Me · Thomas More · pm (r) 33 · Between the Eyes · Albert Payson Terhune · ss The Elks Magazine Sep 1922 42 · The Nantucket Skipper · James Thomas Fields · pm (r) 43 · Through the Ether [Aurelius “Secret Service” Smith] · Major R. T. M. Scott · ss Action Stories Nov 1922 53 · The Little White Feather · Anon. · ss (r); from The London Hawk. 57 · Blow Up with the Brig! · Wilkie Collins · ss Miss or Mrs.? and Other Stories in Outline, Richard Bentley and Son 1873; revised from “The Ghost in the Cupboard Room” (All the Year Round, Christmas 1859). 65 · Jack Long, or Shot in the Eye · Anon. · ss American Whig Review 81 · Tell It to Sweeney! · John A. Moroso · ss (r) 89 · The Man Who Was Dead · H. C. Wire · ss The Blue Book Magazine Feb 1925 99 · The Facts of M. Valdemar’s Case · Edgar Allan Poe · ss American Whig Review Dec 1845, as “The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar” 105 · The Leavenworth Case [Part 5 of 8; Ebenezer Gryce] · Anna Katharine Green · n. Putnam 1878; abridged.