Lothrop, Lee & Shepard for "A Letter," from Swingin' Round the Circle , by David Ross Locke ("P. V. Nasby"); "A Cable Car Preacher" and "The Prayer of Cyrus Brown," from Dreams in Homespun , by Sam Walter Foss; "He Wanted to Know," "Hullo!" and "She Talked," from Back Country Poems , by Sam Walter Foss; "Mr. Stiver's Horse" and "After the Funeral," from the works of James M. Bailey (The Danbury News Man); "Yawcob Strauss," "Der Oak und der Vine," "To Bary Jade" and "Shonny Schwartz," from Leetle Yawcob Strauss , by Charles Follen Adams; "The Coupon Bonds" and "Darius Greene," from the works of J.T. Trowbridge, and Chapters VII, IX, XVI, XX, XXI, from "Partingtonian Patchwork," by B.P. Shillaber. The S.S. McClure Company and McClure, Phillips & Company for "Morris and the Honorable Tim," from Little Citizens , by Myra Kelly. A.C. McClurg & Company for "Simple English," from At the Sign of the Ginger Jar