Loring's Tales of the Day

Published by Loring
Jack the Giant Killer by Miss Thackeray
Little Red Riding Hood by Miss Thackeray
Cinderella by Miss Thackeray
Beauty and the Beast by Miss Thackeray
Sleeping Beauty in the Wood by Miss Thackeray
Aunt Kipp by Louisa May Alcott
Kitty's Class Day by Louisa May Alcott
Psyche's Art by Louisa May Alcott
Proverb Stories by Louisa May Alcott (includes Aunt Kipp, Psyche's Art, and Kitty's Class Day)
Lucy: or, Married from Pique by Jos. A. Sigmund
Hildegard by A. Mels
Week in a French Country House by Mrs. Adelaide Sartoris
Pen Photographs of Charles Dickens Readings
Leslie Tyrell by Georgiana M. Craik
American Colony in Paris 1867 by Andre Leo
No Thoroughfare by Bellamy Brownjohn
Baron Leo Von Oberg, M.D. by Jos. A. Sigmund
Grace Owen's Engagement by Anonymous
From an Island by Miss Thackeray
From Our Ireland by Miss Thackeray


These buff colored paperbacks sold for 10 cents, 15 cents, 25 cents and 40 cents. They were published between 1867 and 1869.
Between 1869 and 1876 no titles from this series were introduced.

Loring's Tales of the Day (later) was initiated in March, 1876. Between 1876 and 1877, the titles below were published. It does not appear that the earlier books were reprinted (one exception, see Alcott below) during these two years. There is no evidence that this series was published after 1877.

Helen's Babies by John Habberton
Dot and Dime by Anonymous
Widow of Windsor by Annie Gaskell
Will it Be? by Mrs. Helen J. Ford
Beautiful Edith, the Child Woman by Gertrude Hext Parsons
In the Camargue by Emily Bowles
Unclaimed: A Story of English Life by an Englishwoman
Summerfield Imbroglio by Mortimer Collins
Lucky Disappointment by Florence Marryat
Star and a Heart by Florence Marryat
Kitty's Class Day at Harvard- Kitty's Class Day/ Aunt Kipp/ Psyche's Art by Louisa May Alcott (includes all three titles)
Left handed Elsa by Anonymous
Jerub Throops Experiment by A. D. T. Whitney
Two Kisses by Hawley Smart
Medusa and Other Tales by Mrs. Adelaide Sartoris

Advertisements for New Schoolma'am: A Summer at North Sparta, a book anonymously written by Horatio Alger, Jr. state that it was to be part of the "Tales of the Day" series. The actual book however does not note the series name.