Essays, Adventure, etc.

Addison, Joseph:  Spectator Papers
Bryce, Sir James:  The American Commonwealth
Burke, Edmund:  Speech on Conciliation
Burroughs, John:  Wake Robin
Chesterton, G. K.:  Heretics
Crothers, S. M.:  The Gentle Reader
Dana, R. H., Jr.:  Two Years Before the Mast
Darwin, Charles:  Origin of Species
Emerson, R. W.:  Essays
Irving, Washington:  Sketch Book
Lincoln, Abraham:  Speeches and Addresses
Lucas, E. V.:  Old Lamps for New
Macaulay, T. B.:  Essays
Muir, John:  The Mountains of California
Thoreau, H. D.:  Walden
Twain, Mark:  Life on the Mississippi

Fiction

Allen, James Lane:  The Choir Invisible
Austen, Jane:  Pride and Prejudice
Barrie, Sir James M.:  Sentimental Tommie
Bennett, Arnold:  The Old Wives’ Tale
Blackmore, R. D.:  Lorna Doone
Bunyan, John:  Pilgrim’s Progress
Cable, G. W.:  Old Creole Days
Conrad, Joseph:  The Nigger of the Narcissus
Defoe, Daniel:  Robinson Crusoe
Dickens, Charles:  David Copperfield
Eliot, George:  Adam Bede
Galsworthy, John:  The Patrician
Goldsmith, Oliver:  The Vicar of Wakefield
Hardy, Thomas:  The Return of the Native
Harte, Bret:  The Luck of Roaring Camp (short story)
Hawthorne, Nathaniel:  The Scarlet Letter
Hergesheimer, Joseph:  Java Head
Hudson, W. H.:  Green Mansions
Kingsley, Charles:  Westward Ho! 
Kipling, Rudyard:  Plain Tales from the Hills (short stories)
London, Jack:  The Call of the Wild
Merrick, Leonard:  The Man Who Understood Women (volume of short
stories); The Actor Manager_
Mitchell, S. Weir:  Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker
Norris, Frank:  The Octopus
Poe, Edgar Allan:  The Fall of the House of Usher (short story)
Poole, Ernest:  The Harbor
Scott, Sir Walter:  Ivanhoe
Smith, F. Hopkinson:  Colonel Carter of Cartersville
Stevenson, R. L.:  Treasure Island
Tarkington, Booth:  Monsieur Beaucaire
Thackeray, W. M.:  Vanity Fair
Twain, Mark:  Huckleberry Finn
Wells, H. G.:  Tono Bungay
Wharton, Edith:  Ethan Frome
Wister, Owen:  The Virginian

    INDEX.

The index comprises, besides miscellaneous items, four large classes of matter:  (1) topics, including many minor ones not given separate textual captions; (2) all individual words and members of pairs explained or commented on in the text; (3) the key syllables, but not the separate words, of family groups; (4) the first or generic term, but not the other terms, in all assemblies of synonyms; hence, this book can be used as a handbook of ordinarily used synonyms.