831. Who wrote "Picture Books Without Pic

tures "?

832. What men of letters were among the first trustees of the famous Astor Library, New York City?

833. Who wrote "A Daughter of Heth"? 834. The poetic fame of what writer, best known by "A Petition to Time," was eclipsed by that of his daughter?

835. What great English writer began life as a tinker and was the son of a tinker?

836. Name sisters, each poets, neither of whom was ever married, and who died within the same year?

837. Of whom did Edmund Clarence Stedman say: "She was the most inspired woman, so far as known, of all who have composed in ancient or modern tongues, or flourished in any land or time"?

838. What famous English poet is said to have read "Arabian Nights' Entertainment " when but six years of age?

839. Who was Italy's greatest poet?

840. Who wrote "Natural Law in the Spiritual World"?

841. Who was called "the father of the English novel "?

842. Who was the founder of the Society of Friends, commonly called Quakers?

843. What great abolitionist and journalist was in turn a shoemaker, cabinet-maker,

printer, and editor?

844. Who was England's greatest historian? 845. What great German poet's first drama in verse was dedicated to the woman he

loved?

846. Who founded the New York Tribune? 847. Who wrote "The History of the Evolution of Man"?

848. What American poet was a direct descendant of John Eliot, the "Apostle to the

Indians"?

849. What young woman in the days of Samuel Johnson sprang into fame with her first novel?

850. Who said: "The consciousness of duty done gives us music at midnight"?

851. What American woman of letters was made

a government commissioner to look into the condition of the Mission Indians of California?

852. To whom did James Russell Lowell dedicate his poem, "The Dead House"?

853. Who drafted the original Declaration of Independence of the United States?

854. Of what book, by what writer, did Macaulay say that it "was the first tale written by a woman, and purporting to be a picture of life and manners, that lived or deserved to live "?

855. Who was the first American novelist of

note?

856. When and where was the first printingpress of America set up?

857. What was the first book printed in America?

858. What early man of letters in the United States took an active part in the witchcraft trials, of which he wrote an account in his book, "Wonders of the Invisible World"?

859. Who wrote "The Heathen Chinee," or,

860. Who was "Owen Meredith "?

Truthful

861. Who was England's greatest dramatist preceding Shakespeare?

862. Name ten famous writers born in Indiana. 863. Who wrote "The Hymn on the Morning of Christ's Nativity"?

864. For what is Northfield, Massachusetts, notable?

865. Who was the author of the familiar poem, 66 The Old Armchair "?

866. Who wrote the following lines:

Let me live in a house by the side of the road
Where the race of men go by-

The men who are good and the men who are bad,
As good and as bad as I.

I would not sit in the scorner's seat,

Or hurl the cynic's ban

Let me live in a house by the side of the road
And be a friend to man.

QUESTIONS

867. Who wrote " In Old Virginia"?

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868. Who was the great educational reformer of

Zurich?

869. For what was Raleigh Tavern, Williamsburg, Virginia, noted?

870. What President of the United States was a classmate of the poet Longfellow at Bowdoin College?

871. Who was "George Sand"?

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872. Who wrote Wallenstein," declared by Carlyle to be "the greatest dramatic work of the eighteenth century"?

873. Who was Anne Hathaway?

874. What present-day English writer is the author of the essay,

How to Live on

Twenty-four Hours a Day"?

875. What American writer lived alone in a hut by a pond, at an expense of nine cents a day?

876. For what is Orleans House, Twickenham, England, noted?

877. The work of what English woman poet of to-day entitled her to consideration as a possible candidate for the poet laureateship after the death of Alfred Austin?

878. Name some notable literary people who are buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Massachusetts.

879. What American poet's grave was unmarked by a monument for over twenty-five years?

880. Who has written delightful juvenile stories under the pen-name of "Lewis Carroll"?

881. Who was "the lily maid of Astolat"? 882. Where do we hear of Joe Gargery? 883. Tell of Gertrude of Wyoming.

884. Who was Little Nell Trent?

885. What American poet compared Dante's "Divine Comedy" to a dim, restful cathedral?

886. Who was Don Quixote?

887. What poet said of Longfellow's "Excelsior": "It depicts the earnest upward impulse of the soul,-an impulse not to be subdued even in death"?

888. Name America's greatest essayist. 889. Who wrote "The Song of the Banjo"? 890. What noted personage said in praise of the works of Shakespeare, "All the English

history that I know, I learned from Shakespeare"?

891. Who immortalized the name of Arthur Henry Hallam?

892. Who was known as "the children's poet"? 893. Who wrote "The Spy," and upon what is the story founded?