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One Thousand Literary Questions and Answers BY MARY ELEANOR KRAMER NEW YORK GEORGE SULLY AND COMPANY PUBLISHERS DEDICATION To G. W, D., that beloved teacher of the long ago, who first made known to us the beauty and inspiration of literature, this little volume is ten derly inscribed. PREFACE The purpose of this volume is to provide teachers of classes in literature with material for varying the regular lecture or recitation work. While not adapted to elementary grades, either in subject matter or wording, it affords all stu dents of literature from high school to university rank, and all readers, from those who confine their attention to the current magazines to those of the acknowledged classics of the language, an opportunity to test the range of their informa tion, and to reinforce their impressions with sup ports of correct data. It aims, by interesting questions, to introduce novelty among those facts of literary history which, taken in monotonous succession, seem commonplace and unimpressive. These queries and answers, in modified form, appeared serially in Educational Foundations during the past three years. Their cordial recep tion in that journal, and the words of encourage ment given by its editor, William Charles ODon nell, Jr., lead to their publication in book form. If the educators of our land here find inspira tion and help, and the general reader new incen tives to read the best literature, then I am well repaid for the labor of compilation. M. E. K. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, June, 2926. ONE THOUSAND LITERARY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 1. Who wrote the poem beginning Every where, everywhere, Christmas to-night 2. What and where is Orchard House 3. Who was William Ellery Channing 4.What writers have immortalized Greylock Mountain 5. What and where is Ponkapog 6. Who said Great deeds cannot die They with the sun and moon renew their light Forever, blessing those that look on them. 7. Who wrote The Red Badge of Courage 8. For what is Griff House noted 9. What was the Bread-and-Cheese Club 10. Who wrote the first anti-slavery book pub lished in America 11. What writer resides in a double cottage the parts of which are known respectively as the bungalow and the barracks 12. What poet selected his own burial-place and designed his own sepulqher 2 ONE THOUSAND LITERARY QUESTIONS 13. Who wrote Oldtown Folks said to be the most authentic description of early New England life 14. Who was the originator of the first circulat ing library 15. What American writers home is covered with ivy grown from a cutting brought from Melrose Abbey, Scotland 16. For what is St. Giless Church, Cripplegate, London, famous 17. Where do we find the following heroines of fiction Becky Shprp Dora Minnehaha Gloria Quayle Hester Prynncf 18. What and where is Old Trail Townf 19. Who wrote My Ragpicker 20. Who has been called the kf Broad Highway man and from what was the term de rived 21. Who is the author of The Virginian 22. Who was the poet of the blue-grass coun try 23. Who said, Hawthornes House of the Seven Gables is the most valuable con tribution to New England history that has yet been made 24. Who was the author of the following lines T is not in the high stars alone, Nor in the cup of budding flowers, Nor in the redbreasts mellow tone, Nor in the bow that smiles in showers, But in the mud and scum of things There alway, alway something sings. QUESTIONS 3 25. Who wrote Pickwick Papers26. For what is Cheyne Walk noted 27. Who resided at Craigenputtock 28. Who was the author of the lines Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there And t will be found, upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation. 29. What English poet was three times married 30. For what is Kilcolman notable 31. Who was called the Jean Ingelow of America 32. What historian established a naval academy at Annapolis, Maryland 33. What and where was Woodland Hall 34...