- 1Bayard Taylor (Born, 1825 — Died, 1878) — Selections From the Exper…
- 2William Allen Butler (Born, 1825.) — Dobbs His Ferry
- 3John William de Forest (Born, 1826.) — Father Higgins’s Preferment
- 4John Townsend Trowbridge (Born, 1827.) — Fred Trover’s Little Iron-…
- 5Oliver Bell Bunce (Born, 1828.) — Mr. Bluff Discourses of the Count…
- 6Charles Dudley Warner (Born, 1829.)
- 7The Plumber
- 8Frances Lee Pratt (Born, 1830.) — Captain Ben’s Choice
- 9Louisa May Alcott (Born, 1832.) — Street Scenes in Washington
- 10Selections From Transcendental Wild Oats
- 11William Wirt Howe (Born, 1833.) — Conversational Depravity
- 12Charles Farrar Browne (“Artemus Ward.”) (Born, 1834 — Died, 1867.)
- 13Science and Natural History
- 14From the “Lecture”
- 15Frank R. Stockton (Born, 1834.)
- 16A Piece of Red Calico
- 17Harriet Prescott Spofford (Born, 1835.) — Aunt Pen’s Funeral
- 18Samuel Langhorne Clemens (“Mark Twain.”) (Born, 1835.) — The Celebr…
- 19Fitz Hugh Ludlow (Born, 1836 — Died, 1870.) — Ben Thirlwall’s Schoo…
- 20Selections From a Brace of Boys
- 21Thomas Bailey Aldrich (Born, 1836.) — A Rivermouth Romance
Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature
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