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195. Who wrote the famous poem on the thought "He giveth His beloved sleep "?

196. Who was the writer of the lines:

To have done whatever had to be done;

To have turned the face of your soul to the sun;
To have made life better and brighter for one:
This is to have lived.

197. Who is worshiped as the greatest teacher and moralist of China?

198. Who was the "great Danish story-teller "? 199. Who was Æsop?

200. Where do we learn of the following literary characters: Jane Eyre; Marion Holcombe; Rhoda Gale; Katerina Maslova; Candida?

201. Who wrote "The Prisoner of Zenda"? 202. What American poet wrote his first verses over the signature of " Pip Pepperpod"? 203. What American novelist lived in the famed "Valley of the Moon," Sonoma, California?

204. Who wrote "The Man with the Hoe," and what inspired the writing?

205. What great naturalist, as a boy, was wont to go down into the cellar of his Wisconsin home, that he might be comfortably warm, while reading Shakespeare, Milton, Burns, and the Bible?

206. What great stage-manager began his career at sixteen years by carrying a spear in Hamlet?

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207. What American poet began life by teaching school in southern California, where his school-room was a “spreading live-oak tree, his seats of logs"?

208. What American novelist began writing striking short stories during his freshman year in the University of California? 209. What American writer was born on Rincon Hill, San Francisco, California?

210. What novelist wrote her first book, "The Story of Patsey," to raise money to establish a free kindergarten in California?

211. Where is Poe Cottage?

212. For what is Greensboro, North Carolina, famed?

213. For what was Chapter Coffee-house noted? 214. Who wrote "The Hound of the Baskervilles"?

215. For what was Doone Valley famed?

216. Who wrote " The Light that Failed"?

217. Where do we hear of Bleeding Heart Yard?

218. Who immortalized an old curiosity shop? 219. Who wrote the lines:

The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power,

And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave,

Await alike the inevitable hour;

The paths of glory lead but to the grave.

220. Who wrote "Three Men in a Boat"?
221. Who wrote "The Right of Way"?
222. Who wrote "A Window in Thrums"?
223. Where do the following lines appear:

God of our fathers, known of old,
Lord of our far-flung battle-line,
Beneath whose awful hand we hold
Dominion over palm and pine;
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget, lest we forget!

224. Who was the first authentic Poet Laureate of England?

225. What English poet held the post of Poet Laureate for the longest term?

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226. Who resides at Strand, Sweden? 227. What promising young American novelist, before his early death, wrote two novels out of the three planned to form The Epic of the Wheat," and what were they? 228. Who was called the " poet of the natural man"?

229. Who wrote "Dear Lady Disdain"? 230. Who immortalized in fiction the "BlueGrass Region" of Kentucky?

231. Who wrote "Sapho "?

232. Of what poet was it said: "He died, aged sixty-seven, young in the joy of living,almost juvenile in the earthly contentment he radiated "?

233. Who said, "My work is the embodiment ✓

of my dreams,-to bring before men's
eyes the image of the thing my heart is
filled with "?

234. Who wrote "The Southerner "?

235. To what writer was there tendered a "Bow of Orange Ribbon" dinner?

236. Who wrote "Their Silver Wedding Journey"?

237. Who wrote "The Adventures of Harry Richmond"?

238. Who said:

Chillon! thy prison is a holy place,
And thy sad floor an altar.

239. Who said, "No man selecting a literary
harem could possibly leave out Jane Aus-

ten's heroines, Anne Eliot and Elizabeth
Bennett "?

240. Who wrote "Twenty-six and One"?
241. Who wrote "The Harim and the Purdah "?
242. Who wrote "The Last Days of Pompeii "?
243. Name four men who were both artists and
authors.

244. Who referred to Edgar Allan Poe as "
gentleman among canaille"?

245. Who wrote "Peter Ibbetson"?

246. Who was Matilda Hoffman?

247. Who wrote "Michel Strogoff "?

248. Who was the prototype of Rowena in Sir Walter Scott's "Ivanhoe "?

249. Who writes under the pen-name "Richard Dehan "?

250. Who wrote "Ships That Pass in the 'Night"?

251. Who wrote "The Secret Garden ”?

252. What English novelist published her first book at thirty-six years, and in the next

twenty years earned one hundred and fifty thousand dollars by her pen?

253. What French novelist wrote his masterpiece at sixty years of age, when nearly

blind?

254. Who is termed the "prince of poets of Paris"?

255. For what is Otsego Hall noted?

256. Who lived at Cummington, in the Berkshire Hills, Massachusetts?

257. What three Americans were sculptors as well as authors?

258. Whose summer home in Massachusetts is called "Dream Wold"?

259. For what is Monticello noted?

260. Where was Whistler's "White House" located?

261. Who was the renowned R. L. S.?

262. Who wrote the "Patty" stories?

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