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- Wyndham Towers, by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
- A History of Science, Vol. II by Henry Smith Williams
- The Trees of Pride, by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- The Great Stone Face and Other Tales of the White Mountains, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln, by Helen Nicolay
- Alcibiades I, by Plato (see Appendix I)
- The Human Drift
- Ballads, by Horatio Alger, Jr.
- At the Sign of The Cat and Racket, by Honore de Balzac
- The Tapestried Chamber, by Sir Walter Scott