Major General John Hay Beith, CBE, was a British schoolmaster and soldier, but he is best remembered as a novelist, playwright, essayist and historian who wrote under the pen name Ian Hay. Often collobarated with other authors including P. G. Wodehouse and Guy Bolton.
Works edit
(Partial list)
Books edit
- Pip: A romance of youth, 1907
- A Safety Match, 1911 (frontispiece by F. Graham Cootes)
- Scally, the Story of a Perfect Gentleman, 1915 Project Gutenberg
- The Lucky Number, 1923 short stories
- The Right Stuff: Some episodes in the career of a North Briton, 1908 Project Gutenberg
- A Man's Man, 1909 Project Gutenberg
- Happy-Go-Lucky, 1913 Project Gutenberg
- A Knight on Wheels, 1914 Project Gutenberg
- The Lighter Side of School Life, 1914 Project Gutenberg
- The First Hundred Thousand: Being the unofficial chronicle of a unit of "K(1)", 1915 Project Gutenberg
- All in It: "K(1)" Carries On, 1917 aka Carrying On Project Gutenberg
- The Oppressed English, 1917 Project Gutenberg
- Getting Together, 1917? Project Gutenberg
- The Last Million: How They Invaded France—and England, 1918 IA
- The Willing Horse: A novel, 1921 Project Gutenberg
- The Shallow End, 1922 (external scan)
- Paid With Thanks, 1925 (UK)
- as Paid In Full, 1925 (US)
- Half-a-Sovereign, 1926
Plays edit
- The Crimson Cocoanut: And other plays, 1913? IA
- Tilly of Bloomsbury, 1919
- A Safety Match (Play), 1921
- The Happy Ending, 1922
- Good Luck (with Seymour Hicks), 1923
- The Sport of Kings, 1924
- A Damsel in Distress (with P. G. Wodehouse), 1928
- Baa, Baa, Black Sheep (with P G Wodehouse), 1929
- The Middle Watch (with Stephen King-Hall), 1929
- A Song of Sixpence (with Guy Bolton), 1930
Individual short works edit
- The Lucky Number, 1923 short stories
- ' "Bill Bailey" ' (ss) The Times Red Cross Story Book by "Famous Authors Serving in Her Majesty's Forces", 1915
Works from periodicals edit
- "The Widow's Cruise" (1910 June, Ainslee's) (ss)
- "Locum-Tenens", (1914 Sept, The Century Magazine) (ss)
- "The 'Liberry'" (1922 Oct, Ladies' Home Journal) (ss)
- "Universal Uncles" (1924 Aug, The Red Book Magazine) (ss)
- "The Centipede" (1926-12-19, The Radio Times pp. 680, 681, 697 (Jpeg 1, Jpeg 2, Jpeg 3))
The Times edit
- The New America: The Melting Pot (1917-07-16)
- The New America: Influences (1917-07-17)
- The New America: "Der Tag" (1917-07-18)
- The New America: National Spirit (1917-07-19)
- The New America: The Call and the Response (1917-07-20)
- The New America: The Army, Old and New (1917-07-21))
- America At War: Military Effort (1918-03-21)
- America At War: Civilian Effort (1918-03-22)
- America At War: Successes and Difficulties (1918-03-23)
- America At War: The President and His Colleagues (1918-03-25)
- America At War: Home Troubles (1918-03-26)
- America At War: The Future (1918-03-27)
- What We Owe To France (1918-07-15)
Works about Beith edit
- Review of 'A Knight on Wheels' in Punch Magazine (August 12th 1914),
Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1929.
This author died in 1952, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 71 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.
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