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Balzac, Honore de  

About the Monk Amador, Who was a Glorious Abbot of Turpenay  

Atheist's Mass, The  

Bertha the Penitent     

Brothers-in-Arms, The  

Concerning a Poor Man Who was Called Le Vieux Par-Chemins  

Concerning a Provost Who Did Not Recognise Things  

Continence of King Francis the First, The  

Danger of Being Too Innocent, The  

Dear Night of Love, The  

Despair in Love  

Devil's Heir, The  

Fair Imperia, The  

Fair Imperia Married, The  

False Courtesan, The  

High Constable's Wife, The     

How the Chateau d'Azay Came to be Built  

How the Pretty Maid of Portillon Convinced Her Judge  

In Which it is Demonstrated that Fortune is Always Feminine  

Innocence     

King's Sweetheart, The  

Maid of Thilouse, The  

Merry Jests of King Louis the Eleventh, The  

Merry Tattle of the Nuns of Poissy, The  

Message, The  

Odd Sayings of Three Pilgrims  

Perseverance in Love  

Recruit, The  

Red Inn, The  

Reproach, The  

Sermon of the Merry Vicar of Meudon, The  

Three Clerks of Saint Nicholas, The  

Venial Sin, The  

Vicar of Azay-le-Rideau, The  

Banim, John

Rival Dreamers, The  

Barbour, Ralph Henry

Acting for the Best  

Barring the Way  

Coals of Fire  

College Santa Clause, A  

Death-Bed Confession, A  

Dub, The  

Grandsire Triples  

Guilty  

Her Marriage Lines  

His First Assignment  

McTurkle, the Band     

New Boy at Hilltop, The  

One Way of Love  

Patsy  

Pemberton's Fluke  

Proving of Jerry, The  

Race with the Waters, A  

Seventh Tutor, The  

Son and Heir  

Triple Play, The  

Triumph of "Curly", The  

Barlow, Jane

Lost Recruit, A     

Barr, Robert

"And the Rigour of the Game"     

"Gentlemen: The King!"     

"Out of Thun"  

Alpine Divorce, An     

Ambassador's Pigeons, The  

Archbishop's Gift, The  

Bromley Gibberts Story, The  

Case of Fever, A  

Converted  

Count Konrad's Courtship  

Count's Apology, The     

Deal on 'Chang, A  

Dramatic Point, A  

Dynamite Explosion, A  

Electrical Slip, An  

Exposure of Lord Stansford, The  

Hour and the Man, The     

Hour-Glass, The  

How the Captain Got His Steamer Out  

International Row, An  

Invitation, An  

Ladies Man, A  

Long Ladder, The  

Man Who was not on the Passenger List, The     

Miss McMillan  

Modern Samson, A  

Mrs. Tremain  

My Stowaway  

Not According to the Code  

Over the Stelvio Pass  

Purification  

Purser's Story, The  

Shadow of the Greenback, The  

Share and Share Alike  

Society for the Reformation of Poker Players, A  

Terrible Experience of Plodkins, The  

Transformation  

Two Florentine Balconies  

Understudy, The  

Vengeance of the Dead, The  

Warrior Maid of San Carlos, The  

Which Was the Murderer?     

Barrie, James M.  

Courting of T'Nowhead's Bell, The  

Inconsiderate Waiter, The     

Baum, L. Frank  

Box of Robbers, The  

Capture of Father Time, The  

Dummy That Lived, The  

Enchanted Types, The  

Girl Who Owned a Bear, The  

Glass Dog, The     

King of the Polar Bears, The  

Laughing Hippopotamus, The     

Magic Bon Bons, The     

Mandarin and the Butterfly, The  

Queen of Quok, The  

Wonderful Pump, The  

Beach, Rex Ellingwood

Bitter Root Billings, Arbiter  

Colonel and the Horse-Thief, The     

Cub Reporter, The  

Flesh  

His Stock in Trade  

Laughing Bill Hyde  

Moon, the Maid, and the Winged Shoes, The  

Mule Driver and the Garrulous Mute, The  

North of Fifty-Three  

North Wind's Malice, The  

Out of the Night  

Pardners  

Real and the Make-Believe, The  

Running Elk  

Scourge, The  

Shyness of Shorty, The  

Test, The  

Thaw at Slisco's, The  

Where Northern Lights Come Down O' Nights  

With Bridges Burned  

With Interest to Date  

Beaumont, Mary

Revenge of Her Race, The     

Beck, L. Adams

Building of the Taj Mahal, The     

Hatred of the Queen. A Story of Burma, The  

How Great is the Glory of Kwannon!  

Incomparable Lady. A Story of China With a Moral, The  

Ninth Vibration, The  

Round-Faced Beauty, The  

Bennett, Arnold

Blue Suit, The  

Cat and Cupid, The  

Catching the Train  

Fortune Teller, The  

Glimpse, The  

Half-a-Sovereign  

Heroism of Thomas Chadwick, The  

Hot Potatoes  

Jock-at-a-Venture  

Letter and the Lie, The  

Long-Lost Uncle, The  

Mimi  

Revolver, The  

Supreme Illusion, The  

Three Episodes in the Life of Mr Cowlishaw, Dentist  

Tiger and the Baby, The  

Tight Hand, The  

Under the Clock  

Unfair Advantage, An  

Why the Clock Stopped  

Widow of the Balcony, The  

Besant, Sir Walter

Quarantine Island  

Bierce, Ambrose  

Affair At Coulter's, The  

Affair Of Outposts, An  

Arrest, An  

Baby Tramp, A     

Baffled Ambuscade, A  

Beyond The Wall  

Bivouac of the Dead, A  

Boarded Window, The  

Charles Ashmore's Trail  

Chickamauga     

Cold Greeting, A  

Coup De Grace, The     

Crime at Pickett's Mill, The     

Damned Thing, The  

Death Of Halpin Frayser, The  

Diagnosis of Death, A  

Difficulty of Crossing a Field, The  

Four Days in Dixie     

Fruitless Assignment, A  

George Thurston  

Haita The Shepherd  

Haunted Valley, The  

Heiress from Redhorse, An  

Horseman in the Sky, A     

Hypnotist, The  

Imperfect Conflagration, An  

Inhabitant Of Carcosa, An  

Isle of Pines, The  

John Bartine's Watch  

John Mortonson's Funeral     

Jug Of Syrup, A  

Jupiter Doke, Brigadier-General  

Killed at Resaca  

Little of Chickamauga, A     

Man and the Snake, The  

Man with Two Lives, A  

Middle Toe of the Right Foot, The     

Mocking-Bird, The  

Moonlit Road, The     

Moxon's Master  

My Favorite Murder  

My Favourite Murder  

Night Doings At 'Deadman's', The  

Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, An     

Oil of Dog     

Old Man Eckert's, At  

On a Mountain  

One Kind of Officer  

One Of The Missing  

One Of Twins  

One Officer, One Man  

One Summer Night  

Other Lodgers, The  

Parker Adderson, Philosopher     

Present at a Hanging  

Psychological Shipwreck, A  

Realm Of The Unreal, The  

Resumed Identity, A  

Secret Of Macarger's Gulch, The     

Son of the Gods, A  

Spook House, The  

Staley Fleming's Hallucination  

Story of a Conscience, The  

Stranger, The     

Thing at Nolan, The  

Three and One are One  

Tough Tussle, A  

Two Military Executions  

Unfinished Race, An  

Vine on a House, A     

Watcher By The Dead, A  

What I Saw of Shiloh  

What Occurred at Franklin  

Wireless Message, A     

Bishop, William Henry

One of the Thirty Pieces  

Bjoernson, Bjoernstjerne  

Father, The  

Railroad and the Churchyard, The  

Black, William

Queen Tita's Wager     

Blackwood, Algernon

Case of Eavesdropping, A  

Empty House, The  

Haunted Island, A  

Keeping His Promise     

Skeleton Lake: An Episode in Camp  

Smith: An Episode in a Lodging-House  

Strange Adventures of a Private Secretary in New York, The  

Suspicious Gift, A  

With Intent to Steal  

Wood of the Dead, The  

Bower, B.M.

First Aid to Cupid  

Lamb, The  

Reveler, The  

Spirit of the Range, The  

Unheavenly Twins, The  

When the Cook Fell Ill  

Bunner, Henry Cuyler

Documents in the Case, The  

Nice People, The