←Author Index: Ba Ralph Henry Barbour
(1870–1944)
American novelist, who primarily wrote popular works of sports fiction for boys. In collaboration with L. H. Bickford, he also wrote as Richard Stillman Powell. Other works included light romances and adventure novels. He was among the first to introduce humor in school stories.

Works

(Incomplete list. Some guesswork in categorization)


School stories and children's fiction

Series

Ferry Hill

(Stories first serialized in St. Nicholas)

The Adventure Club

  • The Adventure Club Afloat, 1917
  • The Adventure Club With the Fleet, 1918 illus. Edward C. Caswell (external scan) (HT)

"Big Four"

  • Four in Camp a Story of Summer Adventures in the New Hampshire Woods, 1912
  • Four Afoot, 1906
  • Four Afloat: Being the Adventures of the Big Four on the Water, 1912

Erskine

The Grafton

  • Rivals for the Team
  • Winning His Game, 1917
  • Hitting the Line

Hilton School

  • The Half-Back: A Story of School, Football, and Golf, 1909 (external scan)
  • For the Honor of the School: A Story of School Life and Interscholastic Sport, 1900 (external scan)
  • Captain of the Crew, 1901 (external scan)

Purple Pennant

Yardley Hall

  • Forward Pass, 1908
  • Double Play; A Story of School and Baseball, 1909 (external scan)
  • Winning His "Y": A Story of School Athletics, 1910
  • For Yardley: A Story of Track and Field, 1911 (external scan)
  • Change Signals 1912 (external scan)
  • Around the End, 1913

Unsorted

  • The Arrival of Jimpson and Other Stories for Boys About Boys, 1904 (external scan)
  • The Spirit of the School, 1907 (external scan)
  • The New Boy at Hilltop and Other Stories, 1910
  • Finkler's Field: A Story of School and Baseball, 1911
  • Team-Mates, 1911
  • Crofton Chums, 1912 (?)
  • Left-End Edwards, 1914 (external scan)
  • Left Tackle Thayer, 1915
  • Left Guard Gilbert, 1916 (external scan)
  • Center Rush Rowland, 1917 (?)
  • The Junior Trophy, 1918
  • Full-Back Foster, 1919
  • The Book of School and College Sports (external scan)
  • Follow the Ball (external scan)
  • Quarter-Back Bates, 1920
  • Fourth Down, 1920
  • Kick Formation, 1921
  • Left Half Harmon, 1921
  • Right End Emerson, 1922 (?)
  • The Turner Twins, 1922 (?) illus C. M. Relyea(external scan)

Romances

  • The Lilac Girl, 1909 illus Clarence F. Underwood, deco Edward Stratton Holloway romance
  • Cupid En Route, 1912 illus F. Foster Lincoln romance
  • Peggy-in-the-Rain, 1913
  • Phyllis in Bohemia, 1897 with Luther H. Bickford) (as Richard Stillman Powell) (external scan) (HT)
  • Kitty of the Roses, 1904 (external scan)
  • An Orchard Princess, 1905 romance (external scan)
  • A Maid in Arcady 1906 (external scan)
  • Holly: The Romance of a Southern Girl, 1907
  • My Lady of the Fog, 1908 (external scan) (HT)
  • The Golden Heart, 1910 (external scan)
  • Joyce of the Jasmines, 1911
  • The House in the Hedge (1911) (external scan) (HT)
  • The Harbor of Love, 1912
  • Lady Laughter, 1913
  • Heart's Content, 1915 (external scan)

Adventure stories

Uncategorized

  • Kingsford Quarter, 1910
  • Partners Three, 1913
  • The Land of Joy. A Novel (external scan)

With H. P. Holt

  • Lost Island, 1918 (with H. P. Holt) illus. Charles M. Relyea juvenile adventure
  • Joan of the Island, 1920 adventure, mystery
  • The Mystery of the Sea-Lark, 1920 illus C. M. Relyea
  • The Cruise of the Endeavour, or, Fortunes of War, 1921
  • Over Two Seas, 1922

Individual short stories

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1925.

The author died in 1944, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 75 years or less. Works by this author may also 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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