before his death, was entitled, “ Will the
Lights Be White?" The concluding
lines read:

Swift toward life's terminal I trend;
The run seems short to-night;
God only knows what's at the end-
I hope the lights are white.

104. Pigeon Cove, near Andrew's Point, at the extreme end of Cape Ann, Massachusetts, is where Ralph Waldo Emerson once spent a vacation of a week. It contains a bronze tablet, attached to a great boulder, on which are engraved the words Emerson wrote in appreciation of the spot:

And behold the sea, the opaline, plentiful and strong, yet beautiful as the rose or the rainbow, full of food, nourisher of men, purger of the world, creating a sweet climate, and in an interchangeable ebb and flow, and in its beauty at a few furlongs, giving a hint of that which changes not and is perfect.

105. Morris Rosenfeld is known as "the sweat

shop poet." Rosenfeld is a Russian Jew
who works in the sweatshops of the lower
East Side of New York City. To him
has been given the divine gift of song, as
exemplified in his "Songs of Labor," a
little book of verse edited and published
by friends. The initial poem, called “In
the Factory," begins:

Oh, here in the shop the machines roar so wildly,
That oft, unaware that I am, or have been,

I sink and am lost in the terrible tumult;
And void of my soul . . . I am but a machine.

I work and I work and I work, never ceasing;
Create and create things from morning till e'en;
For what?-and for whom-Oh, I know not!

Oh, ask not!

Who ever has heard of a conscious machine?

106. "Mr. Riley gained his first real recognition among the literary men of the country at a mass meeting in Chickering Hall, New York City, in 1887. At that time a meeting was held on behalf of the movement to get international copyright laws passed. Through the influence of his friend, ' Bill Nye,' Mr. Riley, who was then little known outside of his own state, was given a place on the program, along with such men as Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, George W. Cable, and others. When Mr. Riley recited his poems the audience was taken off its feet. Sir Henry Irving came to the poet personally to congratulate him. James Russell Lowell, who acted as chairman, paid him a remarkable tribute, and from that day on Riley was given a place among the great men of letters of America."

107. Anne Warner was the name under which Anne Warner French wrote her many books of fiction. Mrs. French was an American novelist who spent the last years of her life in Marnhull, London, England. She was the creator of the inimitable Susan Clegg.

Her last book,

"Sunshine Jane," so wonderfully optimistic, was written under the most tragic circumstances, which throw the "sunshine" of the book into strong relief. Mrs. French's husband and son died within two months of each other at St. Paul, Minnesota, while she was nursing her father, who was ill in her home in England. Four months later, she died suddenly of cerebral hemorrhage, and, before her mother and brother could reach England, her father, too, had passed away. Sunshine Jane," however, shows no hint of depression or sadness.

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108. Pseudonyms of twenty American writers are as follows: Washington ́ Irving, "Diedrich Knickerbocker "; James Russell Lowell," Hosea Biglow"; Isabella M. Alden," Pansy "; Mrs. Jane C. Croly, Jennie June"; Mary Abigail Dodge, "Gail Hamilton "; Samuel G. Goodrich, "Peter Parley"; Marietta Holley, "Josiah Allen's Wife"; Helen Hunt Jackson, "H. H."; Emily Judson, "Fanny Forester "; Mrs. George C. Riggs, " Kate Douglas Wiggin "; Sara J. Lippincott, "Grace Greenwood "; Donald G. Mitchell, "Ik Marvel"; Mary N. Murfree, "Charles Egbert Craddock"; Edgar Wilson Nye, "Bill Nye "; Sarah P. Parton, "Fanny Fern"; David R. Locke, "Petroleum V. Nasby "; William Taylor

Adams, " Oliver Optic "; Sarah C. Wool-
sey, "Susan Coolidge "; Henry W.
Shaw, "Josh Billings'
Josh Billings"; Samuel L.

Clemens, "Mark Twain."

109. Enoch Arden was the hero of a narrative poem of the same name by Alfred Tennyson. Enoch and Philip,-the one, a poor sailor lad, the other, the son of the wealthiest man in an English sea-coast village,—were playmates of Little Annie, and rivals for her hand in early manhood. Enoch wins her. Shortly after marriage, poverty forces him to go on a long sea voyage. He is shipwrecked on an uninhabited island in the tropics, and spends many years in Crusoe-like solitude. Rescued at last by a passing vessel, he returns home to find Annie married to Philip. Unwilling to disturb her happiness he does not reveal his identity until his death.

110. Adam Bede is the titular hero of George Eliot's novel, "Adam Bede." He is a village carpenter of strenuous life and high ideals, who was closely patterned after the author's father. Adam falls in love with vain, pretty Hetty Sorrel, who is betrayed by the son of the wealthy squire of the village.

111. Richard Wightman is the author of the

sentiment: "Friendship is the warp and

woof of human oneness; love is the dye and pattern which make the fabric splendid."

112. Robert Burns was the author of "Tam O'Shanter." According to his wife, Tam was "a blethering, blustering, drunken blellum."

113. John Greenleaf Whittier wrote the following beautiful lines in his poem, 'Raphael":

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We shape ourselves the joy or fear
Of which the coming life is made,
And fill our Future's atmosphere
With sunshine or with shade.

114. Mill Grove Farm, on the banks of the Schuylkill River, in Pennsylvania, was the home of the naturalist, John James Audubon. Audubon was a native of New Orleans, Louisiana. He was the author of "The Birds of America," "Quadrupeds of America," and many other nature volumes.

115. Hans Christian Andersen said: "My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident."

116. Washington Irving, among numerous other pseudonyms, used that of "Jonathan Oldstyle."

117. Charles Dudley Warner said: "It was

Washington Irving, not Hendrick Hud