The New Jersey Reader

Unfortunately, it looks like A New Jersey Reader is now out of print. The Rutgers press assembled this in 1961 and it includes fiction, history, natural history, sports, ghost tales, sea tales, tall tales, etc. of New Jersey and by New Jerseyans. These include:

John Brooks The Meadows
Andrew D. Mellick, Jr. The Old Stone House
J.C. Furnas The Case of the Gullible Bootleggers
Henry Charlton Beck Roundabout Islands
George Weller The Jackson Whites
Karl Baarslag Two Jersey Shore Wrecks
Daniel G. Hoffman Stephen Crane's New Jersey Ghosts
Fletcher Pratt James Lawrence
Alexander Woollcott Aunt Mary's Doctor
Edward Weeks Bay Head in the Summer
John C. Van Dyke A Child's Impressions of Lincoln
Arthur B. Price Artie's Newark
Owen Johnson The Great Pancake Record
Marguerite F. Bayliss The Colfax Fox
Broadus Mitchell The Duel of Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton
Frank R. Stockton The Story of Tempe Wick
Earl Schenck Miers Here's One for the Records


As the book is out of print, I thought it useful to assemble the authors and their selections. I shall have to investigate many of these authors whom I must admit were unknown to me.