66. Give George F. Hoar's tribute to the flag of the United States. 67. Who was Tom Sawyer? 68. Give the incident that led to Francis M. Finch's beautiful poem and tribute, "Nathan Hale." 69. Name the author of the following beautiful and famous prayer: The day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating concerns and duties. Help us to play the man. Help us to perform them with laughter and kind faces. Let cheerfulness abound, with industry. Give us to go blithely on our business all this day; bring us to our resting beds, weary and content and undishonored; and grant us in the end the gift of sleep. 70. Who wrote "The Building of the Ship"? 71. What custom gave rise to the writing of John Greenleaf Whittier's poem, “Telling the Bees"? 72. Who was Master Ezekiel Cheever? 73. What notable writer was the daughter of a lighthouse-keeper on the Isles of Shoals? 74. Who was the author of "Dear Land of All My Love," and for what was it written? 75. What poet died at Aldworth? 76. Who wrote the most authoritative life of Abraham Lincoln? 77. Who was the author of "Venetian Life"? 78. What three American war correspondents have done notable work in fiction? 79. What American novelist married a Russian nobleman? 80. Who said: No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere; And faith shines equal, arming me from fear. 81. Who wrote "Following the Star"? 82. Who wrote "Old Mobile "? 83. What and where was "Paradise Flat"? 84. Who was the author of "Memoirs of a Baby"? 85. What writer said of his first book, "Like the boy with the measles, I am sorry for it in spots"? 86. Who wrote under the signature “H. H.”? 87. Who wrote the famous hymn, "One Sweetly Solemn Thought"? 88. Who wrote "Routledge Rides Alone"? 89. What English poet died at Rome, attended in his last illness by his friend, an artist? 90. What American poet began the translation of the "Iliad" in his seventy-first year, completing it and that of the "Odyssey in six years? 91. Who was America's greatest humorist? 92. What American writer adopted as a life motto, "Hope and keep busy"? 93. Who wrote the "Bimbi" stories? 94. Where is the Red Horse Inn, and for what noted? 95. In what work does Sir Walter Scott describe an old-time Christmas? 96. Who was the author of "Poor Richard's Almanac "? 97. What and where is Elmwood? 98. Where was "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean" first sung? 99. Who wrote "Marching Through Georgia"? 100. Who was the author of "Dixie"? 101. What is the Franklin Inn Club? 102. Give the origin of the "Pig Dinner" of the University of California. 103. Who was called "the poet of the Rockies"? 104. Where is Pigeon Cove? 105. Who is known as "the sweatshop poet"? 106. How did James Whitcomb Riley first obtain notice among literary men? 107. Who was Anne Warner? 108. Give the pseudonyms of twenty American writers. 109. Who was Enoch Arden? 110. Who was Adam Bede? 111. Who wrote the sentiment: "Friendship is the warp and woof of human oneness; love is the dye and pattern which make the fabric splendid "? 112. Who wrote "Tam O'Shanter"? We shape ourselves the joy or fear 114. For what was Mill Grove Farm famous? 115. What writer, speaking of himself, said: "My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident"? 116. What American writer used many pseudonyms, among which was "Jonathan Oldstyle"? 117. Who said: "It was Washington Irving, not Hendrick Hudson, who truly discov ered the river (Hudson River) and gave it to us "? 118. Who was the author of the beautiful poem, "An Order for a Picture"? 119. Who was the author of the following lines: Be mine some simple service here below, To weep with those who weep, their joys to share, Some exile in his new-found home to greet; To serve some child of Thine, and so serve Thee,- 120. Who said, "Hitch your wagon to a star"? 121. Who said, "Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge"? 122. What American poet wrote a series of newspaper articles over the signature, 'Benj. F. Johnson, of Boone "? 66 123. Who wrote "Trilby "? 124. Who was the author of "Pigs Is Pigs"? 125. What writer penned a most interesting narrative of his experiences during the Civil War under the title "A Rebel's 126. Of what American humorist was it said, "He saw life as through a glassbrightly"? 127. Who wrote "The Blue Bird"? 128. Who wrote "Ben-Hur "? 129. Who was the author of "A Hoosier Chronicle "? 130. Where do we find this petition, "Lord, send a man like Bobbie Burns to sing the song o' steam"? 131. Who was the author of the following sentiment: "Let this hallowed hour with better thoughts be spent "? 132. Who was the author of "Ben Bolt"? 133. For what is "Clock House" noted? 134. Who wrote "Calumet K"? 135. For what is Talbothays noted? 136. Who have immortalized Cape Cod in fiction? |