| Editorials | 289-292 | |
| Charles Sumner | Carl Schurz | 293 |
| How the Elephant Got His Trunk | Rudyard Kipling | 295 |
| The Owl | Lord Tennyson | 299 |
| T'nowhead's Bell | J. M. Barrie | 300 |
| John Storm's Resolution | Hall Cain | 308 |
| The Flood of the Floss | George Eliot | 314 |
| The Real Muck Rake Man | Henry van Dyke | 319 |
| The Hunt | Mercy E. Baker | 322 |
| Francois Villon, About to Die | John D. Swain | 323 |
| Lady Moon | Lord Haughton | 326 |
| A Good Dinner | Mary Stuart Cutting | 326 |
| My Rival | Rudyard Kipling | 328 |
| Imph-m | James Nicholson | 328 |
| Looking Forward | Robert Louis Stevenson | 329 |
| Mrs. Atwood's Raiment | Mary Stuart Cutting | 330 |
| Hymn of a Child | Charles Wesley | 341 |
| The Day of Precious Penalties | Marion Hill | 342 |
| Cradle Hymn | Martin Luther | 349 |
| A Kentucky Cinderella | F. Hopkinson Smith | 350 |
| At Lincoln's Tomb | Robertus Love | 355 |
| Mammy's Pickanin' | Lucy Dean Jenkins | 357 |
| The Old Doll | Edith M. Thomas | 359 |
| Santa Claus | Unknown | 360 |
| Little Christel | Wm. B. Rands | 361 |
| Seven Times One | Jean Ingelow | 363 |
| Daffy-Down-Dilly | Anna B. Warner | 364 |
| The Ant and the Cricket | Unknown | 366 |
| Cradle Hymn | Isaac Watts | 367 |
| The Usual Way | Anonymous | 368 |
| The Lark and the Rook | Anonymous | 369 |
| The Gondola Race | F. Hopkinson Smith | 371 |
| Lincoln | Jonathan P. Dolliver | 374 |
| Spacially Jim | Bessie Margon | 376 |
| An Opera | George Ade | 378 |
| A Little Knight-Errant | Margaret A. Richard | 382 |
| Jane Jones | Ben King | 383 |
| Editorials | 1-5 | |
| On Time | John Milton | 5 |
| The Knight in the Wood | E. Leicester Warren | 6 |
| A Little Feminine Casabianca | Geo. Madden Martin | 7 |
| What He Got Out of It | S. E. Kiser | 11 |
| The Play's the Thing | Geo. Madden Martin | 12 |
| The Dancing School and Dicky | Josephine Dodge Daskam | 18 |
| A Model Story in the Kindergarten | Josephine Dodge Daskam | 24 |
| Fishin'? | Anonymous | 26 |
| Ardelia in Arcady | Josephine Dodge Daskam | 27 |
| Meriel | Margaret Houston | 34 |
| The Old Man and "Shep" | John G. Scorer | 35 |
| Who Knows | Louise Chandler Moulton | 36 |
| The Negro | Booker T. Washington | 37 |
| The Guillotine | Victor Hugo | 40 |
| Robespierre's Last Speech | Maximilian M. I. Robespierre | 42 |
| Secession | Alex. H. Stephens | 44 |
| Birds | Richard Henry Stoddard | 47 |
| The Death of Hypatia | Charles Kingsley | 48 |
| Death Stands Above Me. | Walter Savage Landor | 54 |
| The Tournament | Sir Walter Scott | 55 |
| A Plea for the Old Year | Louise Chandler Moulton | 59 |
| Fagin's Last Day | Charles Dickens | 60 |
| A Caution to Poets. | Matthew Arnold | 64 |
| Apollo Belvedere | Ruth McEnery Stuart | 65 |
| An Invalid in Lodgings | J. M. Barrie | 71 |
| The Stirrup-Cup | Sidney Lanier | 74 |
| Das Krist Kindel. | James Whitcomb Riley | 75 |
| Hiram Foster's Thanksgiving Turkey | S. E. Kiser | 77 |
| The Winning of Lorna Doone | R. D. Blackmore | 79 |
| The Sky | Richard Henry Stoddard | 96 |
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Variant forms of words in the original text, sometimes within the same selection, have been retained in this ebook. Ellipses have been standardized. Omissions in the Table of Contents match those of the original document.
The following typographical corrections have been made in this ebook:
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| Page 53: | Removed stray period (She had disappeared, and) |
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| Page 71: | Removed duplicate quotes (I feared," she said.) |
| Page 72: | Changed is to it (but it is satisfaction) |
| Page 82: | Changed single-quote to double (go to sleep.") |
| Page 87: | Changed by to my (hand upon my arm) |
| Page 90: | Changed Doone's to Doones (murdered by the Doones) |
| Page 93: | Changed though to thought (I thought he would) |
| Table of Contents: | Added missing parenthesis (from "The Heart of the Ancient Wood") |
| Table of Contents: | Added missing question mark to match title in text (Fishin'?) |
| Table of Contents: | Changed Kris to Krist to match title in text (Das Krist Kindel.) |
| Table of Contents: | Added missing word 'On' to match title in text (On Time) |