625. George Meredith was the author of " Diana of the Crossways."

626. Boxhill, Surrey, England, is famous because there was located Flint Cottage,

the home of George Meredith during the latter part of his life.

627. Hannah More wrote "The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain.”

628. James Boswell was the biographer of Samuel Johnson.

629. Alexander Pope's "Universal Prayer" was as follows:

Teach me to feel another's woe,
To hide the fault I see:

That mercy I to others show,
That mercy show to me.

630. Of the novelist, Henry James, it has been said that he wrote fiction like a psychologist, and of his brother, Professor William James, America's greatest psychologist, that he made psychology as interest ing as a novel.

631. John Gay, on his death-bed, said:

Life is a jest, and all things show it;
I thought so once, and now I know it.

632. Dr. Samuel Johnson said of Daniel Defoe's

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Robinson Crusoe": "Nobody ever laid it down without wishing it were longer."

633. George Berkeley was the writer of the line, "Westward the course of empire takes its way."

634. Aldwinkle, Northamptonshire, England, was the birthplace of John Dryden.

635. Samuel Butler wrote the couplet:

For truth is precious and divine,
Too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

636. John Milton wrote "Lycidas."
637. John Dryden wrote his finest poem,

"Alex

ander's Feast, or, The Power of Music, an Ode in Honor of St. Cecilia's Day," in a single night.

638. Shakespeare said: "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em."

639. Edmund Spenser's grave in Westminster Abbey, after having been neglected for

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thirty years, was eventually marked by a monument erected by Anne, Countess of Dorset.

640. Francis Bacon was called "the father of experimental science."

641. Sir Thomas More, statesman, writer, and philosopher, was beheaded by order of Henry VIII.

642. John Wycliffe was called "the morningstar of the Reformation."

643. William Cullen Bryant wrote "The SnowShower," a beautiful bit of descriptive verse, containing the oft-quoted stanza:

Yet look again, for the clouds divide;
A gleam of blue on the water lies;
And far away, on the mountain side,

A sunbeam falls from the opening skies,
But the hurrying host that flew between
The cloud and the water, no more is seen;
Flake after flake,

At rest in the dark and silent lake.

644. George Herbert said, "A handful of good life is worth a bushel of learning."

645. Tobias George Smollett, a Scotch novelist and historian, created the characters of Roderick Random and Peregrine Pickle. 646. Of Emily Brontë it was said, "She was as unsociable as a storm at midnight.'

647. Jack London was the author of "Before Adam."

648. James Russell Lowell, in "The Vision of Sir Launfal," wrote:

'T is heaven alone that is given away, 'T is only God may be had for the asking; No price is set on the lavish summer; June may be had by the poorest comer.

649. Julian Hawthorne wrote a life of his parents, entitled "Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Wife."

650. Coppet, not far from Geneva, Switzerland, was the home of Madame de Staël's

father, Baron Necker, and it was here

that she held her famous literary court. 651. Alfred Tennyson wrote " The May Queen." 652. William Ellery Channing, the minister, was called the "father of ethics in America." Roaring Brook" and other mountain streams are in the country surrounding the Bryant homestead, near the "venerable woods," which are celebrated in his beautiful "Forest Hymn":

653.

Father, thy hand

Hath reared these venerable columns, thou
Didst weave this verdant roof. Thou didst look
down

Upon the naked earth, and, forthwith, rose

All these fair ranks of trees. They, in thy sun,
Budded, and shook their green leaves in thy breeze,
And shot towards heaven.

654. Edmund Clarence Stedman, in his "Victorian Poets," said: "The sight of a star or a flower, or the story of a single noble action, touches our humanity more nearly than the greatest discovery or invention, and does more good."

655. William Cullen Bryant was the writer of the lines:

And I envy thy stream, as it glides along

Through its beautiful banks in a trance of song.

656. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow spoke of Portland, Maine, the city of his birth, as "the beautiful town that is seated by the sea." In his poem, "My Lost Youth,”

the poet tells of his childhood home and its precious companionships:

I can see the breezy dome of groves,

The shadows of Deering's Woods;

And the friendships old and the early loves
Come back with a sabbath sound, as of doves
In quiet neighborhoods.

And the verse of that sweet old song,

It flutters and murmurs still:

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A boy's will is the wind's will,

And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts."

657. Mrs. Griswold wrote "Home Life of Great

Authors."

658. Eugene Field wrote " Love Songs of Childhood," which includes many of his most beautiful poems, among which is the favorite, "Little Boy Blue":

The little toy dog is covered with dust,
But sturdy and stanch he stands;

And the little toy soldier is red with rust,
And his musket moulds in his hands.

Time was when the little toy dog was new
And the soldier was passing fair,

And that was the time when our Little Boy Blue
Kissed them and put them there.

659. Haverhill, Massachusetts, is notable for having been the birthplace of John Greenleaf Whittier.

660. The following lines are from the poem, "Elizabeth," one of Longfellow's "Tales of a Wayside Inn":

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing,

Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness;