| My Summer in a Garden | Charles Dudley Warner |
| Being a Boy | " " " |
| In the Wilderness | " " " |
| My Winter on the Nile | " " " |
| On Horseback | " " " |
| Back-log Studies | " " " |
| A Journey to Nature | A.C. Wheeler |
| The Making of a Country Home | " " |
| A Self-supporting Home | Kate V. St. Maur |
| Folks back Home | Eugene Wood |
| Adventures in Contentment | David Grayson |
| Adventures in Friendship | " " |
| The Friendly Road | " " |
| New Lives for Old | William Carleton |
| A Living without a Boss | Anonymous |
| The Fat of the Land | J.W. Streeter |
| The Jonathan Papers | Elizabeth Woodbridge |
| Adopting an Abandoned Farm | Kate Sanborn |
| Out-door Studies | T.W. Higginson |
| The Women of America | Elizabeth McCracken |
| The Country Home | E.P. Powell |
| Blessing the Cornfields (in Hiawatha) | H.W. Longfellow |
| The Corn Song (in The Huskers) | J.G. Whittier |
| Charles Dudley Warner (in American Writers of To-day, pp. 89-103) | H.C. Vedder |