21. How did she enter the chamber of sickness, and move about

among the afflicted ones?

22. How did the room look, and what changes had taken place

during the night?

23. What sudden change came upon the feelings of Evangeline ? 24. How did her feelings find expression?

25. Who lay on a pallet before her ?

26. How did he look?

27. What caused the red on his lips, and of what does it remind

the poet ?

28. Though motionless, senseless, dying, how was he affected by Evangeline's cry?

29. What gentle words followed?

30. What passed through his mind as in a dream?

31. What reality followed the vision ?

32. How did he expire, after this one look of recognition had passed between them?

33. What was ended now?

34. How did Evangeline express herself?

MEN OF GENIUS.

THOMAS CARLYLE.

1. Among what class of men are to be found the chief benefactors of mankind?

2. What do they do for us?

3. To what are they compared?

4. What does the author regret ?

5. Why is it vain to murmur in their behalf?

6. What is said of the hardships of their course?

7. What recompense may an author of true genius find, even though his work is not appreciated?

8. What is it distressing to survey?

9. On the other hand, what is doubly cheering?

10. What rank do such men hold ?

II. What should he do who would write heroic poems ?

MEN OF REAL GENIUS ARE RESOLUTE WORKERS.

GEORGE HENRY LEWES.

1. Of what is there an overplus at the present day?

2. What is thought of common sense?

3. What does the history of art show us concerning men of

real genius?

4. What did these men know?

5. What have the great masters of art often been obliged to do ?

6. What sensible advice is given by a subtle author?

7. How does the writer prompt an artist or an author to energetic and persistent work?

8. How may one be consoled for failures ?

9. In what does the magic of the pen lie?

10. What is the effect of dallying with one's purpose?

11. How does the printer's boy sometimes help an author to write well?

12. What is the secret of his success?

HUMBLE WORTH.

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH.

1. To what themes have poets too often devoted their genius? 2. What, in the opinion of Wordsworth, is more worthy to be celebrated?

3. Where will the memory of the just survive, even though not celebrated here?

4. How does he locate the home of a gentle dalesman, whose virtues he would sing?

5. What gift was denied this man from early childhood?

6. What was the condition of the mountain valley to him?

7. What delightful songs were unknown to him?

8. What stirring scenes were as silent to him as a picture ?

9. How was he upheld?

10. How did he occupy himself ?

11. What ordinary incentives to labor did he lack?

12. How did he always make himself an agreeable inmate of another's home?

13. How did he find society and refresh his thoughts?

14. What was the result of this constant intercourse with books? 15. What did he find in them to cheer him on stormy days, and

during long winter evenings?

16. How was he appreciated and made welcome by those with whom he lived?

17. How was his funeral graced ?

18. How are his name and character still preserved ?

19. What is said of the offices of the pine-tree, whose murmur he could never hear while living?

20. How does the poet apostrophize light?

21. How does he point out the grave of one from whom the blessing of light was withheld?

22. What question may be asked of the wild brooks? Of the channeled rivers ?

23. How was he protected from walking over the brink of preci

pices?

24. How extensive and how minute was his knowledge of flowers? 25. How far did he extend his knowledge ?

26. How did his countenance show intelligence?

27. What was the nature of his discourse?

CHAPTER SIX.

Descriptive and Narrative.

A BATTLE OF ANTS.

HENRY DAVID THOREAU.

1. Describe the contestants in the battle.

2. What did Thoreau soon learn with reference to the extent of the battle ?

3. Which kind of warriors were the larger, the black, or the

red?

4. How numerous were the warlike hosts ?

5. What was the state of the battle when the author first came

upon the scene?

6. How did the fighting of the ant legions compare with that of human soldiers ?

7. Describe the struggle between two of the combatants.

8. What did their battle-cry seem to be?

9. What re-enforcement did one of them receive?

10. Describe the manner in which the third ant entered into the

contest.

11. What means did Thoreau take for watching the issue?
12. What did he then discover, by the aid of the microscope ?

13. How long did the struggle last?

14. How did it end?

15. What was the fate of the victor?

16. Was the cause of the war ever known, or the final result of it? 17. What likeness does the writer incidentally suggest between this war and those waged among the nations of the earth?

THE THREE CHILDREN AT PLAY.

ALFRED TENNYSON.

1. Describe the little town.

2. What rose behind the tall-towered mill ?

3. Tell about the hazel wood.

4. Who, among others, played on this beach a hundred years ago?

5. Among what did they play?

6. How does the description of their play suggest the experiences of human life?

ARDEN ON THE ISLAND.

TENNYSON.

I. Notice how much is told in the first four lines, and how beautifully.

2. What advantages did the island afford?

3. Describe the home which the three men made for themselves.

How is their life there tersely described?

5. What was the fate of the youngest?

6. How did Enoch's other companion perish?

7. What did Enoch read in the death of his fellows?

8. What beautiful sights greeted him day by day?

9.

What more precious sight was denied him?

10. What did he never hear?

11. What did he hear instead?

12. Describe his continual watchings for a sail.
13. What visions, born of memory, haunted him?
14. What did he fancy that he heard at one time?

15. As the seasons came and went, what hope still survived?
16. Describe his rescue.

FUNERAL OF A BELOVED TEACHER.

HANNAH MORE.

1. How did the poor people of the mines try to show their affection for the teacher who had worn out her life among them?

2. Describe the scene before the house.

3. Give an account of the procession.

4. How was the minister affected when he came to the services? 5. What tribute did he pay to the memory of the dead?

6. Describe the scene at the grave.

THE PANTHER.

JAMES FENIMORE COOPER.

1. Describe the course followed by the two girls in their stroll. 2. What caused them to plunge more deeply into the forest?

3. On what did their conversation turn?

4. Where did their walk lead them, and what sights and sounds

did they enjoy?

5. By what were they suddenly startled?

6. Why did they follow the sounds?