• From Moby-Dick (Herman Melville)

From A Journey to Central Africa (Bayard Taylor)

From Cecil Dreeme (Theodore Winthrop)

From St. Elmo (Augusta Jane Evans Wilson)

"Tennessee's Partner" (Bret Harte)

"A South-Sea Idyl" (Charles Warren Stoddard)

From Joseph and His Friend (Bayard Taylor)

From Two College Friends (Frederick W. Loring)

"Marjorie Daw" (Thomas Bailey Aldrich)

From Roderick Hudson (Henry James)

From Private Theatricals (William Dean Howells)

From Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)

"Two Gentlemen of Kentucky" (James Lane Allen)

From The Shadow of a Dream (William Dean Howells)

"In the Tules" (Bret Harte)