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331. Who wrote the lines:

'T is easy enough to be pleasant—
When life flows on like a song;

But the man worth while is the man who can smile,
When everything goes dead wrong.

332. The work of what English poet, the daughter of what poet, was first printed by Charles Dickens in his magazine, Household Words?

333. What and where was the "Brain Club"? 334. Who was the author of "Marco Bozzaris"? 335. Who was called "the mad poet"?

336. Who was called "the poet of celestial passion"?

337. Who is Sir Anthony Absolute?

338. Who was called "the American Sibyl "? 339. Who writes under the pen-name, " Marion Harland"?

340. What and where is "Pigeon-Roost-in-theWoods"?

341. What writer lived at "The Holt"?

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342. To whom did Walt Whitman refer as a good, iaithful, young Jersey woman"? 343. What and where is "Cherry Croft"? 344. Who wrote "A Rill from the Town Pump "?

345. Who wrote "A Spinner in the Sun"? 346. What American novelist, after a visit to the slums of London, wrote a book embodying his experiences, called "The Abyss"?

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347. Who has a summer camp called "Woodchuck Lodge "?

348. What American statesman made practical use of the classic motto,

In essentials unity, in doubtful matters liberty, in all things charity.

349. Who said, "The true university, these days, is a collection of books"?

350. In what church were hung the lanterns described in "Paul Revere's Ride"?

351. Who wrote "The Marshes of Glynn"? 352. What writer's mother sent him daily letters when absent from him, each containing the phrase," I send you my daily prayers, and I bless you, dearie"?

353. What gave rise to the writing of Goldsmith's "She Stoops to Conquer"?

354. Who said: "Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds. rise above it”?

355. What poet, a contemporary of Tennyson and Browning, was, at the close of the nineteenth century, the last of the group of great English poets of the first rank? 356. What and where was "Buff Cottage "? 357. What and where was "Idlewild "?

358. Who said, "A tart temper never mellows with age"?

359. What poet spoke of himself as "a shy lad in homespun clothes of Quaker cut "?

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360. Who wrote " Back-Log Studies"?

361. Who was termed "the great Avatar of Vishnuland"?

362. Who writes under the pseudonym of 'David Grayson "?

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363. What American novelist, after residing in England for many years, became a British subject when a great war arose, in order to throw the weight of his influence with England?

364. Who wrote "Tomb Blossoms "?

365. What and where was "Dosoris "?

366. What American poet was termed "the American Hood"?

367. Who was the author of the "Masque of the Gods," which he considered his best literary work?

368. What and where was "The Den"?

369. What famous gospel hymn writer was blind?

370. Whom did Emerson call "Elizabeth the Wise "?

371. Who said: "I have swum with Alcott in Thoreau's Cove, with Thoreau in the As

sabet, with Channing in every water of Concord "?

372. What and where was "The Perch "?

373. Who was called "the Yankee Solomon"?

374. What is acknowledged to be the most original book of poetry by an American, and by whom was it written?

375. Who wrote "Lays of Ancient Rome"? 376. Who wrote "The Lady of the Lake"? 377. Who wrote "Sohrab and Rustum"? 378. What and where was Alsatia?

379. What English poet was for ten years editor of the National Review?

380. What poet was voted a tablet in the Hall of Fame of New York University?

381. What American poet of great promise died at the early age of twenty-five years?

382. Who was the author of "Pan in Wall Street"?

383. Who was Lady Penelope Penfeather? 384. Who said, "The way to fame is like the way to Heaven,-through much tribulation."

385. In what three volumes is Ruskin revealed as an art critic?

386. Who was Russia's first political writer? 387. What New England poet earned his academy expenses making shoes?

388. Name two American " bachelor poets." 389. Who has been called "America's greatest realist"?

390. What Dutch novelist has written all his works in English instead of in his native language?

391. Who was the author of an "Ode in Time of Hesitation"?

392. For what is Greencastle, Indiana, noted? 393. Who was Chicago's most popular poet? 394. What American novelist has been termed "the historian of the South"?

395. Who wrote "Mothers to Men"?

396. Who said, "Rule One of story-writing is to write stories that please yourself. There is no Rule Two "?

397. What American writer of fiction owns a handsome Italian villa at Lenox, Massachusetts?

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398. What American novelist has been termed one of the most successful ambassadors between America and Great Britain"?

399. Who wrote "A Gentleman from Indiana "? 400. Who said: "Every one of yesterday is dead, and only those of to-day are living; to-morrow should be Paradise"?

401. What English poet's grave is marked by a stone bought by a public subscription?

402. What and where is Gad's Hill Place? 403. What and where was "The Knoll"?

404. Who was "Boz"?

405. Who was called the "Ayrshire plowman "?

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