THE COON DOG _Sarah Orne Jewett_
(In _The Queen's Twin, and Other Stories_)

ON THE LIFE-MASK OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN _Richard Watson Gilder_

A FIRE AMONG THE GIANTS _John Muir_
(From _Our National Parks_)

WAITING _John Burroughs_

THE PONT DU GARD _Henry James_
(Chapter XXVI of _A Little Tour in France_)

THE YOUNGEST SON OF HIS FATHER'S HOUSE _Anna Hempstead Branch_

TENNESSEE'S PARTNER _Bret Harte_

THE COURSE OF AMERICAN HISTORY _Woodrow Wilson_
(In _Mere Literature_)

WHAT I KNOW ABOUT GARDENING _Charles Dudley Warner_
(From _My Summer in a Garden_)

THE SINGING MAN _Josephine Preston Peabody_

THE DANCE OF THE BON-ODORI _Lafcadio Hearn_
(From _Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan_, Volume I, Chapter VI)