Encouragement and Advice.
| Hints for Poor Farmers, by | C.E. Winder. |
| The Failures of Great Men, by | James Parton. |
| A Dietary for Nervous People, by | Dr. W.A. Hammond. |
| Hints for Country House-Builders, by | Calvert Vaux. |
| The Gift Of Memory, and Other Papers, giving Instances of Self-Help, by | Samuel Smiles. |
| A New Profession for Young Men.The Opportunities for Young Men as Electrical Engineers, by | Thomas A. Edison. |
| At the Age Of Twenty-One.A Series of Papers showing what Great Men had accomplished, and what they proposed doing, at that period of their lives, by | Edwin P. Whipple. |
Original Poems.
BY ALFRED TENNYSON,
VICTOR HUGO,
THE EARL OF LYTTON,
J.C. WHITTIER,
T.B. ALDRICH,
DR. CHARLES MACKAY,
And Many Others.
Illustrated Adventure and Travel.
| Shark-Hunting, by | T.B. Luce. |
| Four Amusing Stories, by | C.A. Stephens. |
| Outwitted. An Indian Adventure, by | Lieut. A. Chapin. |
| A Honeymoon in the Jungle, by | Phil. Robinson. |
| Wrecked Upon a Volcanic Island, by | Richard Heath. |
| Stories of the Cabins in the West, by | E.J. Marston. |
| Adventures in the Mining Districts, by | H. Fillmore. |
| The Capture of Some Infernal Machines, by | William Howson. |
| Breaking in the Reindeer, and Other Sketches of Polar Adventure, by | W.H. Gilder. |
| An American in Persia, by the American Minister Resident, Teheran, | S.G.W. Benjamin. |
| China as Seen by a Chinaman, by the Editor of the Chinese American, | Wong Chin Foo. |
| Stories Of Menageries. Incidents connected with Menagerie Life, and the Capture and Taming of Wild Beasts for Exhibition, by | S.S. Cairns. |
| Boys Afoot in Italy and Switzerland.The Adventures of two English boys travelling abroad at an expense of one dollar a day, by | Nugent Robinson. |
Reminiscences and Anecdotes.