OTHER:
1.The Campfire Girls in the Woods 1914 Saalfield Publishing
2. The Campfire Girls on the Farm
3. The Campfire Girls at Long Lake
5. The Campfire Girls on the March
6. The Campfire Girls at the Seashore 1914  - 168 pages
Campfire Girl's Chum  1914  Saalfield Publishing Company, 1914. Volume II of The Campfire Girls Series

Other:
The Despatch Boat of the Whistle  1899 Lothrop Publishing Co 319 pages: Juan Rivas returns to Cuba from the United States as a reporter for the Whistle (newspaper) and a soldier for Cuba in the battle for Santiago.

Stoddard briefly joined the army after the fall of Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861. One Sunday in May 1861, Stoddard recalled that he "took a furlough and went to the White House. It wore a deserted look. My latchkey let me in. I went upstairs and from room to room. All were empty, for Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln were at church, and I don't know where the boys were. In my room were many papers awaiting my signature, but I left them on my table and walked over to Nicolay's room, to be greeted by a shout from the distinguished but now forgotten Colonel Elmer Ellsworth ....We were talking war and the future when I picked up a carbine which stood in a corner and began to put Ellsworth through the manual of arms. As I did so, my orders brought him close to the south window. His movements had the precision of a machine. When the order came to take aim, the carbine went forward recklessly through a pane of glass, and I ordered him to shoulder arms. When the others came in, we had a story to tell them of an assassin among the bushes out yonder who had doubtless mistake Ellsworth or me for the President, and had attempted assassination. Perhaps the yarn would have lasted longer if Ellsworth could have kept his face straight, but as it was, the fun ended, and he and I went to our quarters." Stoddard's son later wrote that Mr. Lincoln was "partial" to "Stod." "On many evenings he took 'Stod' along when he made his calls on Secretary of State Seward and once on a vitally important call on General McClellan. To this were added trips to the Ford Theater. Even at that early age Stoddard was a writer (in ...Often when Lincoln had prepared an address he would call 'Stod' into his private office across the hall to listen to it. He would say, 'for criticism,' but what he really wanted was a preliminary audience. He wanted to hear himself deliver his speech. Stoddard understood this perfectly; he listened, but knew better than to criticize, except with a touch of humor."

The handsome, diplomatic Stoddard was assigned to help Mrs. Lincoln, thereby acting as a personal buffer between her and the other two secretaries, among whom no love was lost. Stoddard "was given a desk in Mr. Hay's office, and among other duties took over the care of Mrs. Lincoln's mail. She liked 'Stod' better than she liked either my father or John Hay, and appears to have called upon him for all kinds of services, which they were only too glad to delegate to him."4 Stoddard may have gotten along better with Mrs. Lincoln because he had similar notions about taking advantage of his position to make money. He provided information to a New York banker which helped predict gold fluctuations and contributed greatly to his financial independence. When Mrs. Lincoln heard of his success, she said: "I'm so glad to hear it! I think a great deal of Mr. Stoddard. Glad to hear of his good luck." Mrs. Lincoln instructed Stoddard to open and screen all of her letters, even those from her family. Stoddard later wrote: "The insane, the depraved and the fiendish have by no means restricted themselves to the President in their infamous penmanship. His vilest foes are willing to vent their infernal malice upon his unoffending wife..."6 Stoddard's health, like those of the President's other secretaries, suffered during his service. In early 1862, he had a bout of typhoid. Stoddard was latter appointed U.S. Marshal in Arkansas and became a prolific writer of historical and children's books. He recalled the President's final words to him in the President's office: "Take these things with you then' - passes, letters, orders for transportation are in your hand - 'and now there's just one thing I want to say. The war is nearly over. Just when it will end, I can't say, but it won't be a great while. Then the Government forces must be withdrawn from all the Southern States. Sooner or later, we must taken them all away. Now what I want you to do is this: do all you can, in any and every way you can, to get the ballot into the hands of the freedmen! We must make voters of them before we take away the troops. The ballot will be their only protection after the bayonet is gone, and they will be sure to need all they can get. I can see just how it will be. Will you?'

Stoddard's influence with Mrs. Lincoln and handling of incoming correspondence gave him more power than his position might have warranted. By withholding papers in one capital case, he may have contributed to a man's execution, according to Stoddard's own version of the incident. He claimed to misplace papers of a guerilla who was facing execution. After it was too late to stop the execution, Stoddard said he "found those papers and took them in to the President. His eyes, and the droop of the corners of his mouth, showed complete understanding. He knew perfectly well that I had feared he would pardon that murderer. He said nothing, but I had the feeling that we were in agreement as to that execution." Stoddard also took pride in claiming that he personally made the first copy of the draft Emancipation Proclamation in September 1862. Stoddard also recalled a less joyous time - on May 6, 1863 when news of the Union defeat at Chancellorsville reached the White House. Stoddard was working in John Hay's office: "Long hours meant nothing to me, and it was nine o'clock when I first saw Seward, Halleck and Stanton come out of Lincoln's room and walk slowly away. I was alone on that floor of the White House, except for the President across the hall behind the now-half-open door. It seemed to me the hall and the silent rooms were full of shadows, some of which came in and sat down by my desk to ask me what I thought would become of the Union cause and the country. Not long afterward, a dull, heavy, regularly repeated sound came out of Lincoln's room and found its way to mine. As I listened I became aware that this was the measured tread of the President's feet. He was walking the length of the room, to and fro, from wall to wall, on the farther side of the Cabinet table." For the next six hours, Stoddard heard the "tramp, tramp, tramp" of the President's feet. Early the next morning, he found President Lincoln seeming fresh and composed at his desk, having written instructions to General Joseph Hooker. "I knew that an answer had come to him during that long night of marching, for he turned to me as composed as though he had not been up all night in that room face to face with disaster," recalled Stoddard. After two bouts with typhoid, Stoddard left his White House post in July 1864. He had taken a break in July 1863, suffering from "Potomac River malaria" and gone north to New York. President Lincoln subsequently named him the federal marshal in Arkansas.

Prior to coming to Washington, Stoddard had been editor of The Central Illinois Gazette in West Urbana and The Ford County Journal. He had been an early booster of Mr. Lincoln for president, having met him in October 1859 while a journalist. Stoddard, however, went to Washington in 1861 without any clear idea how he might be employed. He continued to submit articles to New York newspapers during the Civil War. After the Civil War, he made his living primarily as a writer. Among his books were several about Mr. Lincoln and his Experiences working at the White House: Inside the White House in War Times, Lincoln's Third Secretary and Abraham Lincoln: the Man and the War President.
William Stoddard's Civil War White House

Sue was born in Paris into a wealthy upper middle class family. (In some sources Sue's date of birth is January 26, 1804, and in others December 10, 1804.) His father was an army surgeon, and a favorite of Napoleon. Rebelling against his background, Sue left school with no qualifications and joined in 1823 the French Navy as an auxiliary surgeon. He sailed to Asia, Africa, and America and after his discharge in 1829, he settled in Paris, starting his career in  literature and journalism. Having inherited in 1830 a fortune from his father, Sue was economically independent. Modelling his lifestyle upon Lord Byron, he soon gained fame as a  dandy. Sue worked as a reporter for the Paris Herald and was later an editor of a Bavarian paper. His long novels, published in instalments, increased the circulation of the newspapers in  which they appeared. He became one of the highest paid writers in France and rose to be Europe's first press baron, owning among other publications the Suddeutsche Zeitung.

Sue's early stories, among them Plick et Plock (1831), Atar-Gull (1831), and La Salamandre (1832), were based on his experiences at sea, and became famous with their sensational exoticism. In Le Morne-au-diable (1842) the protagonist was a female pirate. Lautréaumont (1837) was a historical novel set in the days of Louis XIV. The French poet Isidore Lucien Ducasse (1846-1870) took his pen name from the work. Sue also wrote a history of French seafaring, Histoire de la marine française (1835-37). In Arthur (1838) and Mathilde (1841) Sue still depicted contemporary 'high life' but then turned his attention to the social ills which marked the emergence of the Industrial Revolution in France.

After the Revolution year of 1848 Sue was elected a Socialist deputy to the National Assembly, where his idleness was criticized. The new constitution lasted only a short time. In 1851, after Louis Napoleon's coup d'état, Sue went into exile in Savoy, then under Italian rule. He died in exile in Annecy, Savoy, on August 3, 1857.
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/hist255/popcorn/eugene_sue.html
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/esue.htm

PREFACE: As a companion volume to Ten Boys from Dickens, this book of girl-life, portrayed by the great author, is offered. The sketches have the same underlying motive as those of boy-life, and have been compiled in the same  manner, with the same purpose in view.Among them will be found several of the most popular of the creations of Dickens, notably, The Marchioness,  Little Nell, Jenny Wren, and Florence Dombey, and it is hoped that in this presentation as simple stories of   girlhood, their classic form and beauty may arouse in the young people of our day a new interest in the novels from which they are taken. This volume and its companion will have accomplished their purpose when they have won fresh laurels and a wider audience for the famous writer to whom they are indebted for their existence. K.D.S. April, 1902
PREFACE 2: In this small volume there are presented as complete stories the boy-lives portrayed in the works of Charles Dickens. The boys are followed only to the threshold of manhood, and in all cases the original text of the story has been kept, except where of necessity a phrase or paragraph has been inserted to connect passages;--while the net-work of characters with which the boys are surrounded in the books from which they are taken, has been eliminated, except where such characters seem necessary to the development of the story in hand. Charles Dickens was a loyal champion of all boys, and underlying his pen pictures of them was an earnest desire to remedy evils which he had found existing in London and its suburbs. Poor Jo, who was always being "moved on," David Copperfield, whose early life was a picture of Dickens' own childhood, workhouse-reared Oliver, and the miserable wretches at Dotheboy Hall were no mere creations of an author's vivid imagination. They were descriptions of living boys, the victims of tyranny and oppression which Dickens felt he must in some way alleviate. And so he wrote his novels with the histories in them which affected the London public far more deeply, of course, than they affect us, and awakened a storm of indignation and protest. Schools, work-houses, and other public institutions were subjected to a rigorous examination, and in consequence several were closed, while all were greatly improved. Thus, in his sketches of boy-life, Dickens accomplished his object. My aim is to bring these sketches, with all their beauty and pathos, to the notice of the young people of to-day. If through this volume any boy or girl should be aroused to a keener interest in the great writer, and should learn to love him and his work, my labour will be richly repaid.

Other:
Book of Indian Braves 1913 Harper 184 pages illustrated with full color frontispiece and 6 halftone plates by George Alfred Williams
Boys and Girls from Thackeray
Book of Indian Braves
Ten Great Adventurerers 1915
Boys and Girls from George Eliot ~ 1906 Duffield & Co. 212 pages. Pictures by George Alfred Williams
Famous Girls of the White House 1930  NY  Thomas Y. Crowell
Ten Boys From History 1910 ~ Harper ~ Preface says:  In this small volume, the boys of many lands and races whose stories are told, have been selceted not because they later became famous men, although some of them did, but because each one achieved something noteworthy as a boy.  And in each boy's character, whether hisoric or legendary, courage was the marked trait.  For this reason it is hoped that their stories will prove stimulating to some who read them. K.D.S.  Boys featured are: Stephen and Nicholas, Peter of Haarlem, David the Shepherd Boy, Louis Seventeenth, Edward the Black Prince, Tyrant Tad (Lincoln's boy The Boy in the White House) S.F.B. Morse (Telegraph inventor) , David Farragut and Mozart.   Book has a lovely colored frontispiece and a few other nicely done B&W illustrations throughout.

Modern reprint editions