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Encouragement and Advice.

Hints for Poor Farmers, by C.E.  Winder. 
The Failures of Great Men, by James Parton. 
A Dietary for Nervous People, by Dr. W.A.  Hammond. 
Hints for Country House-Builders, by Calvert Vaux. 
The Gift Of Memory, and Other Papers, giving Instances of Self-Help,
    by Samuel Smiles. 
A New Profession for Young Men.  The Opportunities for Young Men as
    Electrical Engineers, by Thomas A. Edison. 
At the Age Of Twenty-One.  A Series of Papers showing what Great Men
    had accomplished, and what they proposed doing, at that period of
    their lives, by Edwin P. Whipple.

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Original Poems.

BY ALFRED TENNYSON,
VICTOR HUGO,
THE EARL OF LYTTON,
J.C.  WHITTIER,
T.B.  ALDRICH,
DR. CHARLES MACKAY,
And Many Others.

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Illustrated Adventure and Travel.

Shark-Hunting, by T.B.  Luce. 
Four Amusing Stories, by C.A.  Stephens. 
Outwitted.  An Indian Adventure, by Lieut.  A. Chapin. 
A Honeymoon in the Jungle, by Phil.  Robinson. 
Wrecked Upon a Volcanic Island, by Richard Heath. 
Stories of the Cabins in the West, by E.J.  Marston. 
Adventures in the Mining Districts, by H. Fillmore. 
The Capture of Some Infernal Machines, by William Howson. 
Breaking in the Reindeer, and Other Sketches of Polar Adventure, by
    W.H.  Gilder. 
An American in Persia, by the American Minister Resident, Teheran,
    S.G.W.  Benjamin. 
China as Seen by a Chinaman, by the Editor of the Chinese American,
    Wong Chin Foo. 
Stories Of Menageries.  Incidents connected with Menagerie Life, and
    the Capture and Taming of Wild Beasts for Exhibition, by S.S.  Cairns. 
Boys Afoot in Italy and Switzerland.  The Adventures of two English
    boys travelling abroad at an expense of one dollar a day, by Nugent
    Robinson.

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Reminiscences and Anecdotes.

Stage-Driver Stories, by Rose Terry Cooke. 
Stories of Saddle-Bag Preachers, by H.L.  Winckley. 
My First Visit to a Newspaper Office, by Murat Halstead. 
Queen Victoria’s Household and Drawing-Rooms, by H.W.  Lucy. 
Child Friendships of Charles Dickens, by his Daughter, Mamie
    Dickens. 
Our Herbariums; Adventures in Collecting Them, by A Young Lady. 
My Pine-Apple Farm, with incidents of Florida Life, by C.H.  Pattee. 
Bigwigs of the English Bench and Bar, by a London Barrister, W.L. 
    Woodroffe. 
At School with Sir Garnet Wolseley, and the Life of a Page of Honor in
    the Vice-Regal Court of Dublin, by Nugent Robinson. 
Student Waiters.  Some Humorous Incidents of a Summer Vacation in the
    White Mountains, by Child McPherson.

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