Moral Principles in Education, by John Dewey. Published 1909.

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Games for All Occasions, by Mary E. Blain. Published 1909.

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The Young Treasure Hunter, or Fred Stanley’s Trip to Alaska, by Frank V. Webster. Published 1909.

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The Dreamer, by Mary Newton Stanard. Published 1909. A biography of Poe, “true to the spirit if not to the letter.”

Mary Newton Stanard (1865-1929) wrote several books on Virginia history.

An excerpt:

Suddenly his heart stopped. The deep, sweet, hollow, ghostlike voice of the bell in the steeple, tolling for a funeral, was borne to his ears. In a moment his fevered imagination associated the tolling with the absence of his divinity from her pew, and in spite of passionately assuring himself that it could not be, and recalling how lovely and full of health she had been when he saw her through the gate, he was possessed by deep melancholy.

The days and hours until Sunday seemed an age to him–an age of foreboding and dread–but they at last passed by. In a fever of anxiety, he walked with the rest of the boys to church, and mounted the steps to the school gallery.

It was early; few of the worshippers had arrived, but in a little while there was a stir near the door. A group of figures shrouded in the black habiliments of woe were moving up the aisle–were entering her pew, from which alas, she was again absent!

Then he knew–knew that she would enter that sacred place nevermore!

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Larry Dexter’s Great Search or, The Hunt for the Missing Millionaire by Howard R. Garis (1909). A young journalist gets a scoop!

Howard Garis was a prolific author of children’s and juvenile literature. Uncle Wiggily, the Bobbsey Twins, Tom Swift, The Curlytops, Dick Hamilton and Larry Dexter were some of his productions.

Project Gutenberg has several other works by Garis under his own name, though this is the first Larry Dexter work represented.

The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1, by Ambrose Bierce, of course. Includes Ashes of the Beacon, The Land Beyond the Blow, For the Ahkoond, John Smith, Liberator and Bits of Autobiography (which is non-fiction).