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- 'Speaking of Operations
- Old Christmas, by Washington Irving
- Secrets of the Woods, by William J. Long
- Michael Strogoff, by Jules Verne
- Eugenie Grandet, by Honore de Balzac
- Z. Marcas, by Honore de Balzac
- Alcibiades I, by Plato (see Appendix I)
- Wyndham Towers, by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
- The Tapestried Chamber, by Sir Walter Scott
- Painted Windows, by Elia W. Peattie