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LITERATURE

Who was styled the Moses of modern science, leading it to the Promised Land, but himself only viewing it from Mount Pisgah? 154.

What was the first encyclopedia? 613.

What was the first book printed in England? 354.

Who was the first English sonneteer? 1851.

What poem is said to contain more familiar quotations than any other of equal length in the English language? 1527.

Who has been called the Father of the English Novel? 1363, 1611.

What led Burns to write his first poem? 294.

What famous poet swam the Hellespont? 298.

What writer received from Elizabeth a grant of thirty millions of acres of American land? 1752.

What writer of the nineteenth century gave up marriage to take care of aa afflicted sister? 1023.

Who was the first poet laureate? 1035.

Who are the greatest English letter writers? 1058.

What was the first English printed copy of the New Testament? 1915.

What made Laurence Sterne forever famous? 1824.

What was the wildest and wittiest satire of the eighteenth century? 1856.

What was the first English version of the Bible? 210, 1088, 2114.

What famous novel is the sad life of its author? 272-3.

What made Mrs. Dinah Maria (Mulock) Craik famous? 473.

What was the early life of George Eliot? 606.

What famous author was called a Christian Socialist? 1005.

What Scottish kings have become well-known through Shakspere? 1708.

What made Disraeli's novels popular? 534.

What is Domesday Boole? 542.

What noted novelist was made baron at the death of his mother? 288.

What clergyman described the loneliness of his parish by saying that he lived 17 miles from a lemon? 1770.

What poet was made poet-laureate in 1813? 1788.

What was Tennyson's first publication? 1891.

When was Tennyson made a peer? 1891.

Who is known as a wit and the creator of Mrs. Partington? 1770.

Who started The Edinburg Review? 1770.

AMERICAN. What was the character of the colonial period of American literature?

1092.

When was the first printing-press set up in Virginia? 1092. What were some of the early Virginian books? 1092. What was the first book printed in America north of Mexico? 1092. In what book are found germs of much of the poetry and romance

of Longfellow, Whittier and Hawthorne? 1092.

What can you tell about Cotton Mather and his work? 1092, 1188. Who wrote Inquiry into the Freedom of the Human Will? 588. Who wrote Poor Richard's Almanac? 708. What other works did the author write? 1092. What was the character of American literature from the Revolution

until  1812? 1093.

Who were some orators? 63, 307, 406, 852, 2062. Who  were  the  noted 'essayists  and what effect  did their writings

have? 1093.

Who wrote The Federalist? 830, 966.

What are the prineiDal writings of Thomas Paine? 1409. What was the popular poem of revolutionary times? 1093. Who wrote The Hasty Pudding f 1093. When was Yankee Doodle written? 2120. Who wrote Hail Columbia? 824. Who wrote Star Spangled Banner? 1000, 1813. Who was the first real American poet and what were his principal

works? 1093.

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