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nveiled? 3. Where is it? _4. When did Mrs. Washington die?_ AUGUSTA EVANS WILSON.--1. What was Mrs. Wilson's first novel? 2. Her most famous one? _3. Translate the foreign phrases and look up the unknown names in the selection._ DANIEL BEDINGER LUCAS.--1. When was the poem written? _2. To whom does the fifth stanza refer?_ _3. What was the Forum?_ JAMES RYDER RANDALL.--1. What has "My Maryland" been called? 2. When was it written? _3. Who were Carroll, Howard, Ringgold, Watson, Lowe, May?_ ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN.--1. What was his title? 2. Mention some of his poems? _3. What was the Conquered Banner?_ WILLIAM GORDON MCCABE.--_1. What were the Trenches?_ _2. Who wrote Tristram and Iseult?_ SIDNEY LANIER.--1. What kind of ancestry had he? 2. What is said of his "Science of English Verse"? 3. What was his favorite remark on Art? 4. Tell of the Centennial Ode. _5. To what poems does Barbe refer in his tribute to Lanier?_ (_See under Waitman Barbe._) 6. Study well the "Song of the Chattahoochee," its rhyme, meter, and thought. _7. What are the marshes of Glynn?_ (_Salt marches on the coast of Ga._) _8. What are the Peabody Symphony Concerts?_ JAMES LANE ALLEN.--1. From what States was Kentucky mainly settled? 2. When was the battle of Blue Licks? _3. When was Kentucky admitted to the Union?_ JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS.--1. What is said of "On the Plantation"? 2. Is the negro dialect the same in all the States? _3. Who was Uncle Remus?_ ROBERT BURNS WILSON.--1. Who is the "Fair Daughter of the Sun"? 2. To whom are Wilson's poems dedicated? CHRISTIAN REID (MRS. TIERNAN).--1. In what battle was Colonel Fisher killed? _2. When was it?_ 3. Tell of Dr. Mitchell's death and burial. (A granite monument has been erected over his grave). HENRY WOODFEN GRADY.--1. Of what paper was he editor? 2. Where is there a monument to him? _3. Learn all that you can of the persons and places mentioned in the extract._ THOMAS NELSON PAGE.--1. With whom did he first write? 2. What passage of Grady's does the extract illustrate? CHARLES EGBERT CRADDOCK (MISS MURFREE).--1. For whom was Murfreesboro named? 2. Where are Miss Murfree's stories laid? DANSKE DANDRIDGE.--1. Whence did Mrs. Dandridge get her first name? 2. Learn the beautiful poem by heart. AMELIE RIVES (MRS. CHANLER).--1. Who were her paternal grandparents, and what did they write? 2. What style had she at first _3. Learn something of the ginseng-diggers in the Alleg
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