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
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