WILLIAM WIRT HOWE
Conversational Depravity

CHARLES FARRAR BROWNE ("_Artemus Ward_")
The Tower of London
Science and Natural History
From the "Lecture"

FRANK R. STOCKTON
Our Tavern
A Piece of Red Calico

HARRIETT PRESCOTT SPOFFORD
Aunt Pen's Funeral

SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS ("_Mark Twain_")
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

FITZ HUGH LUDLOW
Ben Thirlwall's School-days
Selections from a Brace of Boys

THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH
A Rivermouth Romance




BAYARD TAYLOR.