Author:Arthur John Arbuthnott Stringer

Arthur John Arbuthnott Stringer
(1874–1950)

Arthur John Arbuthnott Stringer

Works

Fiction

• The Silver Poppy, 1903 (transcription project)
• Lonely O'Malley: A Story of Boy Life, 1905. illus. Frank T. Merrill
• The Wire Tappers, 1906 (transcription project)
• Phantom Wires: A Novel, 1907 (transcription project)
• The Under Groove: A Novel, 1908 (transcription project)
• The Gun-Runner: A Novel, 1909 (expanded from the novella, below)
  • "The Gun-Runner," novella, in the Popular Magazine January 1909
• The Shadow, 1913. aka Never-Fail Blake
• The Hand of Peril, 1915
• The Door of Dread: A Secret Service Romance, 1916. illus M. Leone Bracker (sequel to The Hand of Peril)
• The House of Intrigue, 1918 (transcription project)
• The Man Who Couldn't Sleep, 1919. illus Frank Snapp no index
• Twin Tales, 1921, consisting of:
  • Are All Men Alike and The Lost Titian
• The Wine of Life, 1921 (transcription project)
• Prairie Stories (c. 1922?) IA
  • The Prairie Wife, 1915 Project Gutenberg
  • The Prairie Mother, 1920 Project Gutenberg
  • The Prairie Child, 1922 Project Gutenberg
• Unseeing Eyes (1923)
• Empty Hands (1924)
• Manhandled (1924)
• The Story Without a Name (1924)

Non-fiction

• A Study of King Lear, 1897.
• Red Wine of Youth: A Life of Rupert Brooke, 1921. IA

Collections and poetry

• Watchers of Twilight, and Other Poems, 1894. IA
• Pauline and Other Poems, 1895. IA
• Epigrams (1896) IA
• The Loom of Destiny, 1899. illus. Florence Scovel Shinn (Short stories prefaced with verses.)

Premonitions — The Undoing of Dinney Crockett — The Fly in the Ointment — The Iron Age — The King who Lost His Crown — Life's Loaded Die — The Crucible of Character — The Essentials of Aristocracy — The Honour of the House of Hummerley — Thicker than Water — Instruments of Eros — An Essay in Equality — The Heart's Desire — Not in Utter Nakedness

• The Woman in the Rain, and Other Poems, 1907. 1949. IA
• Irish Poems, 1911. IA
• Open Water, 1914 IA Project Gutenberg

Works from periodicals

• "A Woman of the North" (1897, The Canadian Magazine) (ss)
• "The Benevolence of Montana Bill," in Munsey's Magazine, May 1902
• "Through the Valley of Illusion" in Harper's Monthly Sep 1902
• "The Wire-Tappers," short story in The Smart Set magazine, 1903
• "Sun in the Valley" in The Smart Set Jan 1903
• "The Deliverance of Pima Jim" (1903 Oct, Red Book) (ss)
• "Larry Doogan: A Christmas Story" in The Bookman Feb 1904
• "The Blue Pear" in The Smart Set May 1904
• "In the Dusk of the Goddess" (1905 Apr 1, Saturday Night) (from Smart Set) (ss)
• "The Adolescence of Number Eighty-Seven," in Metropolitan, May 1906
• "Three Women and Love" in Smart Set, June 1906 (ss)
• "The Sweetening of Ezra Sankie's Pot" (1907 Mar, The Red Book Magazine) (ss)
• "Locked Horns" (1907 Aug, The Smart Set) (ss)
• "The Guardian at the Gates" in Ainslee's Oct 1907
• "The Guarded House" in Everybody's 1908 (ss)
• "The Climber" (1908 Jan, The Red Book Magazine) (ss)
• "The Burglar" (1910 July, The Pall Mall Magazine) (ss)
• "The Miracle of Michael Joulin" in Canada West, Nov 1910
• "The Button Thief" (1914), in the Sunday Magazine, May 28 & Jun 4, 1911
• "The Juggler" (1912 May, The Red Book Magazine) (ss)
• "The Bell," in Popular Magazine, Dec. 20, 1916
• "The Stranger", (Dominion Publicity Company booklet, 1919)
• "A Lion Must Eat" McClure's Magazine, 1921 Mar (ss)
• "The Juggler" (1921), in the The Sunday Star, April 3 1921
• "The Dogs of War" (1922 Dec, McCall's Magazine) (ss)
• "The Fireside" in Cosmopolitan July 1924 (ss)
• "The Cat" in Cosmopolitan Nov 1924 (ss)
• "The Squaw Man" (1925 Feb, The Red Book Magazine) (ss)
• "The Ancient Feud" (1925 April 11, The Saturday Evening Post) (ss)
• "Woman-Handled" (1925 May 2, The Saturday Evening Post) (ss)
• "Fifth Avenue" (1925 Sept 19, The Saturday Evening Post) (ss)

Non-fiction

• "The Canada Fakers" in Canada West, Oct 1908
• "A Recipe for Certain Society Fiction" in The Bookman Jan 1904

Longer works

• "The Breaker," 3-part serial in the The Saturday Evening Post, 1916 Jan 15—29
• "Phantom Wires" (1906 Mar, The Smart Set) (novel: in book form, 1907]
• "The Breaker" (1915-16, Saturday Evening Post) (novella)
• "Creeping Rails" (1907 Mar, The Smart Set) (novella)
• "The Anatomy of Love" (1916 Aug, Smith's) (novel)

Poems

• "Stories in Verse" in Harper's Monthly Mar 1899
• "Easter in the City" in The Smart Set Jun 1900
• "Undersongs" in The Smart Set Jul 1903
• "Night Travel" in The Smart Set Sept 1903
• "The Outbound Ships" in The Smart Set Feb 1904
• "The Snowflake" (1905 Apr, The Smart Set)
• "At the Wharf End" (1905 Dec, Smart Set)
• "At the End of Wooing" (1905 Dec, Ainslee's)
• "My Friend, the Enemy" (1906, Appleton's)
• "The Final Lesson" (1907 Jan, The Smart Set)
• "Songs in Exile" (1907 Dec, The Smart Set)
• "The Randyvoo" (1909 Nov, The Smart Set)
• "A Poet and a Woman" (1910 Nov, The Smart Set)

Plays

• Hephaestus, Persephone at Enna, and Sappho in Leucadia. 1903 Also published as Hephaestus and Other Poems
• The Firebrand (Dec 1910 onwards; serial in Canada West magazine)