Tom, Dick, and Harriet.
Harry’s Island.
Captain Chub.
The first two volumes deal with school and football; the third tells about a summer vacation spent on an island in the Hudson River, where the boys camped, and where Harry (who is a girl) joined them every day; and in the fourth a house-boat is rented, and with Harriet and her father as guests, they cruise up and down the Hudson, meeting with various adventures.
Crofton Boys. By Harriet Martineau.
A story of life at an English school early in the last century.
Decatur and Somers. By Molly Elliot Seawell.
A story of the War with Tripoli. Describes the burning of the Philadelphia.
Feats on the Fiord. By Harriet Martineau.
An active and interesting story the scene of which is Norway in the eighteenth century. Describes incidentally the manners and customs of the time.