Cornell Series of Standard Books

     Hello Readers!
In one of my antique shopping adventures, I came across this interesting little pamphlet, written for the school years of 1917-1918.

                 School Supplies
                          ~
                Catalogue
          From The Publishing Office of
          A. J. Fouch Company
          Warren, PA.
           Publishers, Manufacturers and Dealers
          School Supplies.
          Teachers' Supplies.
          Books, Cards, School Merchandise
                         ~
          We solicit and desire your patronage.
          A. J. Fouch Company, Warren, PA.
          Catalogue Edition 1917-1918.


     It has amazing lists of school supplies, from globes to school plays, and the prices for each item.  It was so much fun to see what students almost 100 years ago studied in school.

     On of the interesting lists I found, was "Cornell Series of Standard Books."  See how many of these books sound familiar to you!  How many have you read?

Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll                       
Anderson's Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Anderson                  
Not Like Other Girls by Rosa Nouchette Carey
Aunt Diana by Rosa Nouchette Carey                                    
New Arabian Knights

Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens
Biglow Papers by James Russell Lowell
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
Black Rock, a Tale of the Selkirks by Ralph Connor
The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne
A Book of Golden Deeds by Charlotte Yonge
The Courtship of Miles Standish by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Crown of Wild Olives by John Ruskin
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Diana of the Crossways by George Meredith
Donovan by Ada Ellen Bayly
East Lynne by Ellen Wood
English Orphans by Mary Jane Holmes
Esther, from the Bible
Gold Elsie by Eugenie Marlitt
Grandfather's Chair by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Green Mountain Boys by Daniel Pierce Thompson
Grimm's Household Tales by the Brothers Grimm
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
In His Steps by Charles M. Sheldon
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
John Halifax, Gentleman by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
The Lamplighter by Maria S, Cummins
Last Days of Pompeii by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
Lena Rivers by Mary Jane Holmes
The Light that Failed by Rudyard Kipling
The Little Minister by J. M. Barrie
Longfellow's Poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas
The Minister's Wooing by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Mysterious Island by Jules Verne
Mosses from an Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Oregon Trail by Francis Parkman
Our Bessie by Rosa Nouchette Cary
The Pathfinder by James Fenimore Cooper
Paul and Virginia by Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
The Phantom Rickshaw by Rudyard Kipling
Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea by James Fenimore Cooper
The Pioneers by James Fenimore Cooper
The Pleasures of Life by Sir John Lubbock
The Prairie: A Tale by James Fenimore Cooper
Red River by ?
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Silas Marner by George Eliot
The Sketch Book by Washington Irving (essays)
The Spy by James Fenimore Cooper
St. Elmo by Augusta Jane Evans
Swiss Family Robinson Johann David Wyss
Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Tales of a Traveller by by Washington Irving (essays)
Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Tempest and Sunshine by Mary Jane Holmes
Ten nights in a Bar Room by Timothy Shay Arthur
Tollers of the Sea by ?
Tom Brown at Oxford by Thomas Hughes
Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Two Admirals by James Fenimore Cooper
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Water Witch by James Fenimore Cooper
Whittier's Poems by John Greenleaf Whittier
A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys by James Fenimore Cooper 


     Quite a list of books!  I've only read nine of the books - am I behind!  They must have really held James Fenimore Cooper and Nathaniel Hawthorne in high regard.  Their names appear multiple times.  I've only read "Last of the Mohicans" by Cooper and nothing by Hawthorne.
     Perhaps, if you are doing the summer reading challenge, this list might give you some ideas.  I've started on the reading challenge, and I am reading "The Red Badge of Courage" by Stephen Crane.  If you would like to join me in the challenge, visit my post titled "Summer Reading Challenge!" May 17, 2011. 


Happy reading!

~ Katelyn