HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & COMPANY 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 "Caesar'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