_Free Joe_; _Tales of the Home-Folks_, Joel Chandler Harris.

_Stories of the Cherokee Hills_, Maurice Thompson.

_Northern Georgia Sketches_, Will N. Harben.

_His Defence_, Harry Stilwell Edwards.

_Mr. Absalom Billingslea_; _Mr. Billy Downes_, Richard Malcolm Johnston.

KENTUCKY

_Flute and Violin_; _A Kentucky Cardinal_, James Lane Allen.

_In Happy Valley_, John Fox, Jr.

_Back Home_; _Judge Priest and his People_, Irvin S. Cobb.

_Land of Long Ago_; _Aunt Jane of Kentucky_, Eliza Calvert Hall.

LOUISIANA

_Holly and Pizen_; _Aunt Amity's Silver Wedding_, Ruth McEnery Stuart.

_Balcony Stories_; _Tales of Time and Place_, Grace King.

_Old Creole Days_; _Strange True Stories of Louisiana_, George W. Cable.

_Bayou Folks_, Kate Chopin.

TENNESSEE

_In the Tennessee Mountains_; _Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains_, Charles Egbert Craddock. (Mary N. Murfree.)

VIRGINIA

_In Ole Virginia_, Thomas Nelson Page.

_Virginia of Virginia_, Amelie Rives.

_Colonel Carter of Cartersville_, F. Hopkinson Smith.

NORTH CAROLINA

_North Carolina Sketches_, Mary N. Carter.

III. THE MIDDLE WEST

INDIANA

_Dialect Sketches_, James Whitcomb Riley.

ILLINOIS

_The Home Builders_, K. E. Harriman.

IOWA

_Stories of a Western Town_; _The Missionary Sheriff_, Octave Thanet.

_In a Little Town_, Rupert Hughes.

KANSAS

_In Our Town_; _Stratagems and Spoils_, William Allen White.

MISSOURI

_The Man at the Wheel_, John Hanton Carter.

_Stories of a Country Doctor_, Willis King.

MICHIGAN

_Blazed Trail Stories_, Stewart Edward White.

_Mackinac and Lake Stories_, Mary Hartwell Catherwood.

OHIO

_Folks Back Home_, Eugene Wood.

WISCONSIN

_Main-Travelled Roads_, Hamlin Garland.

_Friendship Village_; _Friendship Village Love Stories_, Zona Gale.

IV. THE FAR WEST

ARIZONA

_Lost Borders_, Mary Austin.

_Arizona Nights_, Stewart Edward White.

ALASKA

_Love of Life_; _Son of the Wolf_, Jack London.