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- Other Things Being Equal, by Emma Wolf
- The Young Forester, by Zane Grey
- The Great Stone Face and Other Tales of the White Mountains, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Sophist, by Plato
- The Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln, by Helen Nicolay
- The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Scholemaster, by Roger Ascham
- Alcibiades I, by Plato (see Appendix I)
- Tartarin of Tarascon, by Alphonse Daudet
- The Human Drift
- Painted Windows, by Elia W. Peattie