Eleven short stories in all including title work, Brain of the Battle Ship; The Wigwag Message, The Trade Wind, Salvage, Between The Millstones, The Battle of the Monsters, From the Royal-Yard Down, Needs Must When the Devil Drives, When Greek Meets Greek, Primordial. These stories had been previously published in Atlantic Monthly, Century Magazine, Saturday Evening Post, Colliers Weekly, Harpers Monthly.