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Care was taken to secure the independent, individual preference 

 of each. At about the same time Mr. O. S. Rice, of the State 

 Superintendent's office, in Wisconsin, made a similar request of 

 the boys and girls in attendance in one hundred and fifty high 

 schools in the state, many of these being, the smaller village and 

 country high schools. The result of the vote among the city boys 

 was as follows : 



Author and Title Votes 



Stevenson Treasure Island 222 



Dickens Oliver Twist 100 



Cooper Last of the Mohicans 81 



Dumas Three Musketeers 78 



Cooper The Spy , . 61 



Stevenson Kidnapped 58 



Barbour Half Back 57 



Dumas Count of Monte Cristo 55 



Barbour Crimson Sweater 51 



Doyle Sherlock Holmes . 46 



Tarkington Monsieur Beaucaire 44 



Twain Tom Sawyer 44 



Scott Talisman 43 



Dickens Tale of Two Cities 42 



Longfellow Courtship of Miles Standish 37 



Hughes Tom Brown's School Days 35 



Longfellow Evangeline 34 



Thurston Masquerader 34 



Doyle Sign of the Four 33 



London Call of the Wild 33 



The country boys in Wisconsin, some of whom were in smaller 

 villages and cities, chose the following books as their favorites : 



Author and Title 

 Stevenson Treasure Island. 

 Scott Ivanhoe. 

 London Call of the Wild. 

 Cooper Last of the Mohicans. 

 Churchill The Crisis. 

 Twain Tom Sawyer. 

 Wallace Ben-Hur. 

 Eliot Silas Marner. 

 Cooper Pathfinder. 

 Cooper The Spy 

 Dickens Tale of Two Cities. 



