Author:William Livingston Alden

William Livingston Alden
(1837–1908)

William Livingston Alden

Works

• The Moral Pirates 1887 ed. (1880) (transcription project)

• Domestic Explosives and Other Sixth Column Fancies. (From the New York Times.) (1877) IA
• Shooting Stars: as observed from the "sixth column" of the Times (1878) IA
• Christopher Columbus: (1440-1506) the first American citizen (by adoption) (1881) IA
• The Cruise of the "Ghost" (1882)
• The Cruise of the Canoe Club (1883) IA
• The Adventures of Jimmy Brown (1885) IA
• Garibaldi's Ideas (1885) hathitrust
• A New Robinson Crusoe (1888) IA
• The Loss of the Swansea; a story of the Florida coast (1889) IA
• Told by the Colonel (1893) (serialised in The Idler, 1892-1893) IA
• Van Wagener's Ways (1898) hathitrust
• For Britain's Soldiers; a contribution to the needs of our fighting men and their families (1900)
• Drewitt's Dream : a story (1902) IA
• Among the Freaks (1902) IA
• Shapes that Haunt the Dusk (1907) IA
• Jimmy Brown Trying to Find Europe (1905)

Individual short stories

• "Silver-Plated" in The Strand Magazine, 3 (18) (1892).
• Among the Freaks
  • "The Wild Man of Borneo" in The Strand Magazine, 6 (31) (1893).
  • "How the Fat Woman Eloped" in The Strand Magazine, 6 (32) (1893).
  • "N'Shugie-Gumbo" in The Strand Magazine, 6 (33) (1893).
  • "A Gorilla Romance" in The Strand Magazine, 6 (34) (1893).
  • "A Case of Dual Consciousness" in The Strand Magazine, 6 (35) (1893).
  • "The Mermaid" in The Strand Magazine, 6 (36) (1893).
  • "A Major Microbe" in The Strand Magazine, 7 (37) (1894).
• "Antonio's Englishman" in The Strand Magazine, 7 (41) (1893).

• Van Wagener's Ways (1898)
  • "Professor's Van Wagener's Eye" (The Idler magazine, Nov 1895)
  • The Explosive Dog
  • The Flying Cat (as "Van Wagener's Flying Cat" in The Idler, Dec 1896)
  • A Scientific Balloon
  • "A Tricycle Made for Two" (as "A Tricycle for Two" in Short Stories, Jun 1894)
  • "A Flying March" in The Idler, Jul 1896
  • Incandescent Cats
  • A Scientific Trap
  • The Volcanic Valve
  • "The Professor's Jump" in The Idler, Aug 1895
  • The Fatal Fishing Line
  • The Amphibious Torpedo
  • The Floating Magnet
• Christmas Games illustrated by Arthur Rackham in Cassell's Magazine, Vol. 29 (1899)
• "The American and Brescia," in Harper's Magazine, Aug 1904
• "Antonio's Englishman," in Short Stories, Aug 1894
• "The Cats of Piacenza" in Harper's Magazine, Aug 1906
• "The Development of Furlani" in The Idler, Jun 1896
• "Foote's Catorium" in The Idler, Sep 1896
• "A Ghost Train" in The Idler, Nov 1895
• "Hopkin's Safe" in The Idler, Vol 6, 1894-1895
• "The Lost Engine" in The Idler, Vol 6, 1894-1895
• "A Montana Divorce Suit" in The Idler, Vol 6, 1894-1895
• "Monty's Tale" in Lords of the Housetops: Thirteen Cat Tales (1921) by various authors PG (full book)
• "Passing" (ss) Scribner's Magazine, Dec 1906
• "Psmith of Pavia: a mystery," in Harper's Magazine, Feb 1907
• "A Sleeping-Car Tragedy" in The Idler, vol 9, 1896
• "The St. Bernard Myth," in Short Stories, Mar 1894
• "A Very Satisfactory Fog," in Windsor, 1895

Works about Alden

• "Alden, William Livingston," in The Biographical Dictionary of America, (ed.) by Rossiter Johnson, Boston: American Biographical Society (1906)