| 1.—EXILE. |
| Ethan Brand | Hawthorne |
| The Swans of Lir | Gerald Griffin |
| A Night in a Workhouse, | Jas. Greenwood |
| The Outcasts of Poker Fiat, | Bret Harte |
| The Man without a Country | Hale |
| Flight of a Tartar Tribe | DeQuincey |
| 2.—INTELLECT. |
| The House and the Brain | Bulwer |
| L'Outre Mort | Harriet Prescott Spofford |
| The Fall of the House of Usher | Poe |
| Chops, the Dwarf | Dickens |
| Wakefield | Hawthorne |
| Murder considered as one of the Fine Arts | DeQuincey |
| The Captain's Story, | Rebecca Harding Davis |
| 3.—TRAGEDY. |
| The Murders in Rue Morgue | Poe |
| The Lauson Tragedy | DeForest |
| The Iron Shroud | Wm. Mudford |
| The Bell Tower | Herman Melville |
| The Kathayan Slave | Mrs. Judson |
| The Story of La Roche, | Henry Mackenzie |
| The Vision of Sudden Death | DeQuincey |
| 4.—LIFE. |
| Rab and his Friends | Dr. John Brown |
| A Romance of Real Life | W. D. Howells |
| The Luck of Roaring Camp | Bret Harte |
| Jerry Jarvis's Wig | R. H. Barham |
| Beauty and the Beast | Willis |
| David Swan | Hawthorne |
| Dreamthorp | Alexander Smith |
| A Bachelor's Reverie | D. G. Mitchell |
| The Grammar of Life | B. F. Taylor |
| My Chateaux | G. W. Curtis |
| Dream Children | Charles Lamb |
| The Man in the Reservoir | C. F. Hoffman |
| Westminster Abbey | Addison |
| The Puritans | Macaulay |
| Gettysburg | Abraham Lincoln |
| 5.—LAUGHTER. |
| A Christmas Carol | Dickens |
| The Haunted Crust | Katherine Saunders |
| A Dissertation upon Roast Pig | Lamb |
| The Total Depravity of Inanimate Things | Mrs. E. A. Walker |
| The Skeleton in the Closet | Hale |
| Sandy Wood's Sepulchre | Hugh Miller |
| A Visit to the Asylum for Decayed Punsters | Holmes |
| Mr. Tibbot O'Leary the Curious, | Gerald Griffin |
| Neal Malone | William Carleton |
| 6.—LOVE. |
| Love and Skates | Theodore Winthrop |
| The Maid of Malines | Bulwer |
| The Story of Ruth | From the Bible |
| The Rise of Iskander | Disraeli |
| 7.—ROMANCE. |
| Iris | Holmes |
| The Rosicrucian | Miss Mulock |
| The South Breaker, | Harriet Prescott Spofford |
| The Snow Storm | Christopher North |
| The King of the Peak, | Allan Cunningham |
| 8.—MYSTERY. |
| The Ghost | W. D. O'Connor |
| The Four-Fifteen Express, | Amelia B. Edwards |
| The Signal Man | Dickens |
| The Haunted Ship | Cunningham |
| A Raft that no Man Made, | Robt. T. S. Lowell |
| The Invisible Princess, | Francis O'Connor |
| The Advocate's Wedding Day, | Catherine Crowe |
| The Birthmark | Hawthorne |
| 9.—COMEDY. |
| Barney O'Reirdon, the Navigator | Lover |
| Hadad-Ben-Ahab, the Traveller | John Galt |
| Bluebeard's Ghost | Thackeray |
| The Picnic Party | Horace Smith |
| Father Tom and the Pope | Samuel Ferguson |
| John Darbyshire | William Howitt |
| The Gridiron | Lover |
| The Box Tunnel | Reade |
| 10.—CHILDHOOD. |
| A Dog of Flanders | Ouida |
| The King of the Golden River | Ruskin |
| The Lady of Shalott | Miss Phelps |
| Marjorie Fleming | John Brown |
| Little Jakey | Mrs. S. H. DeKroyft |
| The Lost Child | Henry Kingsley |
| Goody Gracious! and the Forget-me-Not | John Neal |
| A Faded Leaf of History, | Rebecca Harding Davis |
| A Child's Dream of a Star | Dickens |
| 11.—HEROISM. |
| Little Briggs and I | Fitz-Hugh Ludlow |
| Ray | Harriet Prescott Spofford |
| Three November Days | B. F. Taylor |
| The Forty-Seven Ronins | A. B. Mitford |
| A Chance Child | Isabella Mayo |
| A Leaf in the Storm | Ouida |
| 12.—FORTUNE. |
| The Gold Bug | Poe |
| The Fairy Finder | Lover |
| Murad the Unlucky | Maria Edgeworth |
| The Children of the Public | Hale |
| The Rival Dreamers | John Banim |
| The Three-fold Destiny | Hawthorne |
| 13.—NARRATIVE POEMS. |
| The Deserted Village | Goldsmith |
| The Ancient Mariner | Coleridge |
| The Prisoner of Chillon | Byron |
| Bingen on the Rhine | Mrs. Norton |
| O'Connor's Child | Campbell |
| Kilmeny | Hogg |
| The Dream of Eugene Aram | Hood |
| Lady Barbara | Alexander Smith |
| The Sensitive Plant | Shelley |
| The Eve of St. Agnes | Keats |
| Paradise and the Peri | Moore |
| The Raven | Poe |
| The Skeleton in Armor | Longfellow |
| The Haunted House | Hood |
| The Writing on the Image | Morris |
| Tam O'Shanter | Burns |
| The Forging of the Anchor | Samuel Ferguson |
| Morte D'Arthur | Tennyson |
| Horatius | Macaulay |
| 14.—LYRICAL POEMS. |
| Locksley Hall | Tennyson |
| My Lost Youth | Longfellow |
| Intimations of Immortality | Wordsworth |
| Ode to Happiness | Lowell |
| L'Allegro and Il Penseroso | Milton |
| Elegy in a Country Churchyard | Gray |
| The Bridge of Sighs | Hood |
| The Problem | Emerson |
| The Passions | Collins |
| The Bonnets of Bonnie Dundee | Scott |
| At Port Royal | Whittier |
| How they brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix | Browning |
| Ode on the Duke of Wellington | Tennyson |
| Commemoration Ode | Lowell |
| And many other Poems. |
| 15.—MINOR POEMS. |
| The Chambered Nautilus | Holmes |
| The Children's Hour | Longfellow |
| The Courtin' | Lowell |
| Evelyn Hope | Browning |
| Highland Mary | Burns |
| Kubla Khan | Coleridge |
| My Child | Pierpont |
| My Psalm | Whittier |
Oh? Why should the Spirit of Mortal be Proud?
(President Lincoln's favourite Poem.) |
| She was a Phantom of D light | Wordsworth |
| Thanatopsis | Bryant |
| The Three Fishers | Kingsley |
| Toujours Amour | Stedman |
| A Woman's Question | Adelaide Anne Proctor |
| Bugle Song | Tennyson |
| The Age of Wisdom | Thackeray |
| I Remember, I Remember | Hood |
| The Ivy Green | Dickens |
| A Lament | Shelley |
| Maid of Athens | Byron |
| Night and Death | Blanco White |
| The Old Man's Idyl | Richard Realf |
| A Petition to Time | Barry Cornwall |
| The Skylark | James Hogg |
| Philip, My King | Miss Mulock |
| Tom Bowling | Dibdin |
| Virtue | George Herbert |
| And numerous other poems. |
| 16.—AUTHORS. |
| Containing Brief Biographies of all the Authorsfrom whose writings the fifteen precedingvolumes of "Little Classics" have been taken.With complete Index. |
