7. What opportunities had many of these men to know of the teachings of Christ, his miracles, and his resurrection?

8. What is said of the miraculous conversion of Paul and the

miracles which he himself performed?

9. In view of all these things, what important question arises ? 10. What question must be decided concerning Paul himself, and the life he led ?

MEN OF OUR TIMES.

H. B. STOWE.

1. What have our own days witnessed?

2. What may be said of the preparations for that battle ?

3. Who are to be regarded as the Men of Our Times?

4. Who are included among this number?

5. Whom does the writer place foremost on the roll ?- Abraham Lincoln.

6. How does the writer regard the war of the Rebellion ?

7. What proof is given of the correctness of this view?

8. Who have taken sides with the cause of freedom the world over?

9. Who have been arrayed against it?

10. How did the laboring classes in foreign lands heroically stand by the cause that was to free the oppressed?

11. Why have they had courage and fortitude to do this?

12. In whose hands has the great contest been held?

13. According to the writer's view, how was the leader in this great work chosen ?

O CAPTAIN MY CAPTAIN !

WALT WHITMAN.

1. What are the chief merits of this poem ?

JOAN OF ARC.

DE QUINCEY.

1. What parallel does the author draw between Joan of Arc and David, King of Israel?

2. What was it that made the great difference between the final fortune of the one and that of the other?

3. How is the prosperity of David contrasted with the fate of Joan ?

4. How does the author express his faith in the girl's sincerity and truthfulness?

5. How did her pure aspirations give evidence of the genuineness and noble-heartedness of her conduct?

6. What will be her condition when the thunders of universal France shall proclaim the grandeur of her character ?

7. What fulfilment has this prediction received in the awakening of France to a sense of Joan's true character ?

8. What was her portion in this life?

9. Did she expect anything else?

10. What does the author represent her as saying?

II. From what belief did she never relax?

12. What glimpse does the author give of the manner in which she suffered death?

13. How does he describe the honors that were not for her who so richly deserved them?

14. How are her achievements enumerated?

15. Who opposed her in all this forward movement?

16. Who were her supporters?

17. How old was she when she had accomplished all this?

18. Did she become elated by her success?

19. How did she show her generosity and tenderness of heart even

to her enemies?

20. How did her feelings find expression on the day when she had finished her work?

21. What did she pray that God would grant her for the remainder of her life ?

CHARLES SUMNER

H. B. STOWE.

1. What suggestion did Sumner indignantly repel ?

2. What cheered him in the darkest hours?

3. How did he express his unwavering faith to a friend who commended his courage?

4. What have those words proved to be?

5. What significant questions does the writer ask?

6. What might be inscribed upon the graves of Douglas and Webster?

7. How did these men die ?

8. With whom are they contrasted?

MAY AND NOVEMBER.

N. HAWTHORNE.

1. Describe the chamber where Phoebe Pyncheon slept.

2. Describe the entrance of the morning sunlight, and the effect

it produced.

3. What were the thoughts and feelings of the waking girl?

4. How was she the more inclined to devotion ?

5. What did she discover as she peeped out of the window ?

6. Describe the rosebush and tell its origin.

7. How did it seem to be offering its morning worship?

8. What valuable gift did Phoebe possess?

9. What magic effects can such a gift produce?

10. Upon what did Phoebe now exercise that gift?

II. What was the result of her efforts?

12. What helped to drive the gloom from the heretofore dismal room?

MARTIN LUTHER.

DR. W. ROBERTSON.

1. From what was Luther saved by a seasonable death ?

2. Relate the circumstances that led to his death.

3. For what was he raised up by Providence?

4. In what opposite colors have his life and character been

drawn?

5. Who were they who imputed to him not only the vices of a man, but the qualities of a demon?

6. How did others look upon him and his work ?

7. How should the opinions of the present age be regulated con

cerning him?

8. What virtues must even his enemies allow him to have possessed?

9. What further credit must be given him?

10. How were his magnanimity and generosity manifested in his life?

11. How were these extraordinary qualities alloyed?

12. To what could these not be imputed?

13. From what do they seem to have taken their rise?

14. How is this view explained?

15. What may be said of his confidence, his courage, his firmness?

CHARACTER OF MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS.

DR. W. ROBERTSON.

1. What were the charms and accomplishments of Mary, Queen of Scots ?

2. What may be said of her attachments?

3. Why was she so impatient of contradiction?

4. Why did dissimulation seem so natural and so harmless to her?

5. How was she affected by flattery and dissimulation ?

6. What brief estimate of her character does the author give in a single sentence?

7. How was she betrayed into errors, and even crimes?

8. What were among the causes of her almost uninterrupted succession of calamities?

9. Can her course of action be excused by the corrupt manners of the age in which she lived?

10. How will humanity treat this part of her character ?

11. To what may some generously impute her actions?

12. What may be said of her sufferings?

13. How are we likely to feel while thinking of her sufferings and distresses?

VICTORY THROUGH SUFFERING.

LONGFELLOW.

1. How does the poet describe the location of the city of Philadelphia ?

2. How does he set forth the charms of the place?

3. How was Evangeline, the wandering maiden, made to feel here?

4. What were some of the causes of her contentment?

5. By what beautiful figures does the poet illustrate the clearing away of the turmoils which had haunted her mind for

so many years?

6. Was Gabriel forgotten?

7. How did he appear to her?

8. What lesson had a life of trial taught her?

9.

How is this diffusion of her love illustrated?

10. What was her only hope or wish in life?

II. How did she spend her years?

12. What fell upon the city at length?

13. How is the effect of the plague figuratively described?

14. Under the scourge of this relentless oppressor, what was the only difference between the rich and the poor ?

15. How was the almshouse situated at that time, and what surrounds it now?

16. What do its humble walls seem to echo?

17. How did the dying look upon Evangeline as she nursed them ?

18. Describe her passage to the almshouse on a Sabbath

morning.

19. What did she hear as she mounted the stairs? 20. How did the calmness of the hour affect her?