So on the ocean of life we pass and speak another,

Only a look and a voice, then darkness again

a silence.

661. Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote 1 poem, "The Cry of the Children," as protest against the employment of you children in factories.

662. Dante Gabriel Rossetti, poet and artist, s of an Italian exile, was born in Lond England, in 1828.

663. Six years before his death William Mor established the Kelmscott Press, fro which he sent forth books printed in ty

and bound in decorations of his o artistic designing.

664. Edward Fitzgerald is noted for havi translated into English verse the Persi

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poem, Rubáiyát," of Omar Khayyá
Two often-quoted stanzas are:

A book of Verses underneath the Bough,
A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread-and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness-

Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!

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I sometimes think that never blows so red
The Rose as where some buried Cæsar bled;
That every Hyacinth the Garden wears
Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely head

665. Charles Dickens, when a child, earned s
shillings a week pasting labels on bottl
in a blacking factory.

666. Charterhouse School, London, England, is notable for the number of distinguished literary men who as boys attended it, among these being Addison, Steele, and Thackeray.

667. William Makepeace Thackeray wrote the "Paris Sketch Book."

668. Mossgiel, Scotland, was the one-time home of Robert Burns.

669. Thomas Bailey Aldrich said, "A widespreading, hopeful disposition is our only true umbrella in this vale of tears." 670. Some prominent members of the literary coterie that grew out of the PreRaphaelite Brotherhood," which was at first a group of artists, were Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Ruskin, and William Morris.

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671. Leigh Hunt wrote " Abou Ben Adhem":

Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!)
Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace,
And saw within the moonlight in his room,
Making it rich and like a lily in bloom,
An angel writing in a book of gold:

Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold,
And to the presence in the room he said,

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"What writest thou?"-The vision raised its head,
And, with a look made all of sweet accord,
Answered, "The names of those who love the Lord."
"And is mine one?" said Abou. Nay, not so,"
Replied the angel.-Abou spoke more low,
But cheerily still; and said, "I pray thee, then,
Write me as one that loves his fellow men."

The angel wrote, and vanished. The next night

It came again, with a great wakening light,

And showed the names whom love of God had bless'd,

And, lo! Ben Adhem's name led all the rest!

672. The sister of Charles Lamb killed her mother in a fit of insanity.

673. In Loch Katrine, Scotland, is "Ellen's Isle," celebrated in Scott's poem, "The Lady of the Lake."

674. Thomas Hardy wrote " Jude the Obscure." 675. Charles Dickens was called "the humanitarian novelist of England."

676. William Caxton, a native of Kent, England, introduced the printing-press into Eng

land.

677. Christopher Marlowe, an early English playwright, contemporary with Shakespeare, was fatally stabbed in a tavern brawl at Deptford, near London.

678. Goethe was the author of the lines:

For touching hearts the only secret known, My worthy friend, is to have one of your own. 679. David Graham Phillips wrote "The Hungry Heart."

accidentib 680. Paul Leicester Ford was killed by his

brother.

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681. Charles Kingsley was the writer of the lines:

The world goes up and the world goes down,
And the sunshine follows the rain,

But yesterday's sneer, and yesterday's frown
Can never come back again.

682. David Graham Phillips, one of the most promising young writers of the United States, was assassinated on the streets of New York City by an insane man, who then committed suicide.

683. Myrtle Reed (Mrs. J. Sidney McCullough) committed suicide while temporarily in

sane.

684. Henry David Thoreau said, "I have traveled a good deal in Concord." 685. Alice Cary, in her poem, "Nobility," said: True worth is in being, not seeming,In doing each day that goes by Some little good-not in the dreaming Of great things to do by and by.

686. Mrs. Malaprop is a famous character in the comedy, "The Rivals," written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.

687. Amelia E. Barr was born in Lancashire, England; she emigrated to America, and wrote all her famous books here.

688. Alice Cary wrote "Snow Berries," a book made up of stories and poems for young people.

689. Litchfield, Connecticut, is notable for having been the birthplace of Henry Ward Beecher, the great divine and writer, and his famous sister, Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin."

690. Charles Dudley Warner was the author of "My Summer in a Garden.”

691. "

Glenmary," on the Susquehanna River, was the home of Nathaniel Parker Willis, the novelist and poet.

692. George F. Root wrote the famous song, "The Battle-cry of Freedom.”

693. Susan Warner wrote under the pen-name of "Elizabeth Wetherell."

694. Emma Hart Willard wrote the well-beloved poem and song, "Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep."

695. Theodore Roosevelt wrote "The Wilderness Hunter."

696. Joseph Conrad, a native of Poland, whose family name is Korzeniowski, although he did not know a word of English until he was nineteen, is acknowledged to be one of the greatest masters of the art of fiction in England to-day.

697. Dr. William Ellery Channing's grave in Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts, is marked by a monument designed by his friend, Washington Allston. "The

698. Thomas Buchanan Read wrote Wagoner of the Alleghanies," in which occurs the fine lyric beginning:

The maid who binds her warrior's sash
With smile that well her pain dissembles,
The while beneath her drooping lash
One starry tear-drop hangs and trembles,
Though Heaven alone records her tear
And fame shall never know her story,
Her heart has shed a drop as dear
As e'er bedewed the field of glory.