36. What warm request do the parents present to heaven after

the children have retired to rest, or gone back to their

places of service?

37. What springs from scenes like this?

38. What does the poet say of princes and lords?

39. How does he compare the cottage and the palace?

40. How does he address his native land?

41. What blessings does he ask for the hardy sons of rustic toil?

42. From what does he wish to have them preserved ?

43. With what prayer does he close the poem ?

INFLUENCE OF HOME.

RICHARD HENRY DANA.

1. What is the general influence of home upon the mind? 2. How does this state of mind enable us to meet afflictions?

3. In such a condition how can even vices be made to teach us a good lesson ?

4. How does a home life relate us healthfully to the world?

5. How does it keep us from being deceived?

6. How does it keep us from becoming pessimistic?

7. What is the safest way of coming into communion with mankind? Why?

8. How is the domestic man put at ease in society?

9. What causes him to diffuse a pleasurable sense over those near him?

10. In what other ways is a domestic life beneficial?

II. What has God in his goodness ordained?

12. How may a man be made happy at home almost without heeding it?

CHILDREN ASLEEP.

MATTHEW ARNOLD.

1. How is the sleep of the children described ?

2. Picture the moonlight and its effects.

3. Describe the children.

4. How does one of them seem to indicate his dreams ?

5. Write a paraphrase of the poem.

REPRESSION.

HARRIET BEECHER STOWE.

1. Of what is life said to consist?

2. To what belongs the duty of expression?

3. To what belongs the duty of repression?

4. What mistake is made by some very religious and moral people?

5. What great law do they forget?

6. How does the writer illustrate the effects of repression ? 7. How do some people dwarf their own best faculties and impulses by repression?

8. What kind of barren life do some people spend together who really love and reverence each other?

9. What question is asked concerning sons and daughters? 10. What concerning husbands and wives, brothers and sisters ? 11. How do they deceive themselves with respect to the time for expression?

12. What scripture is quoted?

13. What are the bitterest tears shed over graves?

14. What do people often say after death has separated their loved ones from them?

15. What are such words like ?

16. Into what should every good thought blossom?

17. What is said about the different ways of expressing affection?

18. What mistake is often made concerning relatives ?

19. What, as well as things in nature, may be improved and strengthened by judicious cultivation ?

20. What effect may neglect produce?

A NEW ENGLAND SNOW-STORM AND HOME SCENE.

SYLVESTER JUDD.

1. How long has it been snowing?

2. At whose home does the author propose to look in?

3. Why is the place inaccessible by any ordinary methods of

travel?

4. What are the only means by which it can be approached ?

5. Describe the outward appearance of the house and its sur

roundings.

6. Describe the landscape.

7. What seems to be the only token of life about the house?

8. Describe the scene within this buried home.

9. Compare this description with the one given in “ Snow-Bound.”

TO A SLEEPING CHILD.

THOMAS HOOD.

1. How does the poet find pathos in the sleep of an infant?

2. How much life does the child seem to have ?

3. Sleep is a compromise between what?

4. How does he express his admiration for the child's beauty in sleep?

5. How is he impressed by the beauty of the awakened blossom?

HOME LIFE OF THE PRIMROSES.

OLIVER GOLDSMITH.

1. How was the home situated ?

2. How large a farm was connected with this little habitation? 3. How did it appear?

4. Describe the house.

5. How was the inside made cheerful?

6. What does he call this home with its occupants?

7. In keeping with the laws which the vicar gave to his little republic, how was the day begun ?

8. Describe the arrangements for the day.

9. How was the noon-hour spent?

10. How were the vicar and his sons received when they came in

at sunset from the labors of the day?

11. How were the evenings made agreeable?

12. With what exercise did the day close?

13. What difficulties did the vicar have to meet when Sunday came ?

14. Could he see that his moral lectures had done much to modify the tastes or dispel the vanity of his wife and daughters ?

15. Describe the experiences of the first Sunday.

16. Give the substance of the vicar's sound remarks.

17. What effect did his lecture produce?

SALUTARY EFFECTS OF PARENTAL DISCIPLINE.

THOMAS CARLYLE.

1. What is our universal duty and destiny?

2. What is the fate of those who do not yield to it?

3. How does this emphasize the importance of early training? 4. How does he now feel about the severe discipline of his

childhood?

5. From what motives, and in what spirit, was it administered? 6. What invaluable service was done him by his mother?

7. In what sense was she religious, and under what circumstances?

8. How did she teach him reverence?

9. What is the effect of such example, especially in infancy? 10. What choice does the writer present?

CHAPTER FIVE.

Studies in Character.

THE LAST DAYS OF WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON IRVING.

1. Describe Washington's occupations and state of health just before his last illness.

2. What was he contemplating as one of the first improvements to be made?

3. What reason did he give for making this change first of all? 4. What does his nephew say about the general's looks?

5. How did he appear on the morning when the nephew last

parted from him?

6. What work had Washington just accomplished that showed his mind to be in a vigorous state as well as his body?

7. Relate the circumstances by which he was made ill.

8. What reply did he make when urged to do something for his cold?

9. Relate the experiences of that night.

10. How did Washington prescribe for himself? 11. To what extent were his wishes carried out? 12. What preparation did he make for death?

13. How did he look forward to that event?

14. How did the general show his anxiety for the comfort of those around him?

15. What request did he make of the doctor?

16. What were his last instructions?

17. Describe the death scene.

18. How did Mrs. Washington conduct herself?

THE CARPENTER.

GEORGE ELIOT.

1. Describe the carpenter's shop and its surroundings.
2. How is the carpenter introduced to the reader's notice?
3. What was this tall man singing?

4. Describe the appearance of the singer.

CHARACTER OF ST. PAUL.

DR. PALEY.

1. What may be said of the ability and qualifications of St. Paul?

2. To what did he devote his life and talents?

3. How is Paul's course of life graphically described by Dr. Paley ?

4. What record have we of his doings?

5. How do the history and the letters agree?

6. From these records what do we learn concerning the associates

he had in this kind of work?