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for "A Letter from Mr.
Biggs," from The Story of a Country Town, by E.W. Howe; "The
Notary of Perigueux," from Outre-Mer, by Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow; "A Nautical Ballad," from Davy and the Goblin, by
Charles E. Carryl; "The Spring Beauties," from The Ride to the Lady,
by Helen Avery Cone; "Praise-God Barebones," from Songs and Lyrics,
by Ellen M. Hutchinson-Cortissoz; "Fable," from Poems, by Ralph
Waldo Emerson; "The Owl Critic" and "Cæsar's Quiet Lunch with
Cicero," from Ballads and Other Poems, by James T. Fields; "The
Menagerie," from Poems, by William Vaughn Moody; "The Briefless
Barrister," "Comic Miseries," "A Reflective Retrospect," "How the
Money Goes," "The Coquette," "Icarus," "Teaching by Example," from
Poems, by John Godfrey Saxe; "My Honey, My Love," by Joel
Chandler Harris; "Banty Tim," "The Mystery of Gilgal" and "Distichs,"
from Poems, by John Hay; "The Deacon's Masterpiece, or The
Wonderful One Hoss Shay," "The Height of the Ridiculous," "Evening,
By a Tailor," "Latter Day Warnings," and "Contentment," from Poems,
by Oliver Wendell Holmes; two selections from The Autocrat of the
Breakfast Table, by Oliver Wendell Holmes, and "Dislikes," from The
Poet at the Breakfast Table, by Oliver Wendell Holmes; "Plain
Language from Truthful James," and "The Society Upon the
Stanislaus," from Poems, by Bret Harte; "Melons," from Mrs. Skaggs'
Husbands and Other Sketches, by Bret Harte; "The Courtin'," "A Letter
from Mr. Ezekiel Biglow" and "What Mr. Robinson Thinks," from
Poems, by James Russell Lowell; "The Chief Mate," from Fireside
Travels, by James Russell Lowell; "A Night in a Rocking Chair" and
"A Rival Entertainment," from Haphazard, by Kate Field; "Mrs.
Johnson," from Suburban Sketches, by William Dean Howells;
"Garden Ethics," from My Summer in a Garden, by Charles Dudley
Warner; "Our Nearest Neighbor," from Marjorie Daw and Other
Stories, by Thomas Bailey Aldrich; "Simon Starts in the World" (J.J.
Hooper), "The Duluth Speech" (J. Proctor Knott), "Bill Arp on
Litigation" (C.H. Smith), "Assault and Battery" (J.G. Baldwin), "How
Ruby Played" (G.W. Bagby), from Oddities of Southern Life, edited by

Henry Watterson; "The Demon of the Study," from Poems, by John
Greenleaf Whittier; "The Old Maid's House: in Plan," from An Old
Maid's Paradise, by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps; "Dum Vivimus
Vigilamus," "What She Said About It," "Dictum Sapienti," "The Lost
Word" and "Abou Ben Butler," from Poems, by Charles Henry Webb
("John Paul"); "Chad's Story of the Goose" and "Colonel Carter's Story
of the Postmaster," from Colonel Carter of Cartersville, by F.
Hopkinson Smith; "The British Matron," from Our Old Home, by
Nathaniel Hawthorne; "As Good as a Play," from Stories from My Attic,
by Horace E. Scudder; "The Pettibone Lineage," by James T. Fields;
"The Experiences of the A.C.," by Bayard Taylor; "Eve's Daughter," by
Edward Rowland Sill, and "The Diamond Wedding," by Edmund
Clarence Stedman.
WILLIAM R. JENKINS for "It Is Time to Begin to Conclude," from
Soldier Songs and Love Songs, by Alexander H. Laidlaw.
JOHN LANE COMPANY for "The Invisible Prince," from Comedies
and Errors, by Henry Harland.
LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY for "Hard," "Enough" and
"Desolation," from In Merry Measure, by Tom Masson; "A Branch
Library" and "Table Manners," from Tomfoolery, by James
Montgomery Flagg; "The Sonnet of the Lovable Lass and the Plethoric
Dad," by J.W. Foley; "Thoughts for an Easter Morning," by Wallace
Irwin; "Suppressed Chapters," by Carolyn Wells; "The Conscientious
Curate and the Beauteous Ballad Girl," by William Russell Rose, and
"A Poe-'em of Passion," by Charles F. Lummis.
LIPPINCOTT'S MAGAZINE for "The Modern Farmer," by Jack
Appleton; "The Wicked Zebra" and "The Happy Land," by Frank Roe
Batchelder; "A Mothers' Meeting," by Madeline Bridges; "The Final
Choice" and "A Daniel Come to Judgment," by Edmund Vance Cooke;
"The Co-operative Housekeepers" and "Her 'Angel' Father," by Elliott
Flower; "Wasted Opportunities," by Roy Farrell Greene; "The Auto
Rubaiyat," by Reginald W. Kauffman; "It Pays to be Happy" and
"Victory," by Tom Masson; "Is It I?" by Warwick S. Price; "Johnny's
Lessons," by Carroll Watson Rankin; "Her Brother: Enfant Terrible"

and "Trouble-Proof," by E.L. Sabin; "A Bookworm's Plaint," by
Clinton Scollard; "Nothin' Done," by S.S. Stinson, and "Uncle Bentley
and the Roosters," by Hayden Carruth.
LITTLE, BROWN & COMPANY for "Elizabeth Eliza Writes a
Paper," from The Peterkin Papers, by Lucretia P. Hale; "The Skeleton
in the Closet," by Edward Everett Hale, and "The Wolf at Susan's
Door," from The Wolf at Susan's Door and Mrs. Lathrop's Love Affair,
by Anne Warner.
LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD for "A Letter," from Swingin' Round
the Circle, by David Ross Locke ("P. V. Nasby"); "A Cable Car
Preacher" and "The Prayer of Cyrus Brown," from Dreams in
Homespun, by Sam Walter Foss; "He Wanted to Know," "Hullo!" and
"She Talked," from Back Country Poems, by Sam Walter Foss; "Mr.
Stiver's Horse" and "After the Funeral," from the works of James M.
Bailey (The Danbury News