The Boy Scouts Book of Stories

A collection of short stories written for boys and edited and compiled by Franklin K. Mathiews, who was Chief Scout Librarian for the Boy Scouts of America. The Stories and authors included are:

I. THE GREAT BIG MAN Owen Johnson

II. A TWILIGHT ADVENTURE Melville Davisson Post

III. TAD SHELDON, SECOND CLASS SCOUT John Fleming Wilson

IV. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE Arthur Conan Doyle

V. THE RANSOM OF RED CHIEF O. Henry

VI. THE HONK-HONK BREED Stewart Edward White

VII. THE DEVIL-FISH Norman Duncan

VIII. THE JUMPING FROG Mark Twain

IX. BINGISM Booth Tarkington

X. CONCHO CURLY AT THE OP'RA Edward Beecher Bronson

XI. THE LIE Hermann Hagedorn

XII. STORY OF THE BANDBOX Robert Louis Stevenson

XIII. THE HERO AND THE COWBOY Joseph C. Lincoln

XIV. THE DOLLAR Morgan Robertson

XV. THE MASCOT OF "TROOP 1" Stephen Chalmers

XVI. THE LION'S SMILE Thomas W. Hanshew

XVII. THE ROLL-CALL OF THE REEF A. T. Quiller-Couch

XVIII. THE HOUSE AND THE BRAIN Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton